Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2014

64 Rotana’s commitment to colleagues Health and Safety has remained steadfast throughout the company’s history. The company has worked diligently to implement several programmes, initiatives, policies, and guidelines to protect its most valued resource - its colleagues, thus resulting in 0 work related fatalities. In 2015, we aim to enhance our injury and illness prevention programmes through more robust post-incident investigations. In 2014 we have embarked on developing and implementing a health and safety framework that includes: • Adding health and safety induction module to the group orientation programme and mandatory awareness training to all colleagues’ • Preparing the risk register for the operational departments’ activities as per the company’s generic SOPs • Developing health and safety inspections checklists and audits protocols for all departments • Improve fire and emergency response management plan. We also began to introduce a new online incident reporting and investigation programme with accompanying online reporting form, policies and procedures across all operations to formalise the reporting of workplace incidents. This new system helps improve internal controls and injury prevention measures. All operations also have a health and safety committee, which meets regularly to review performance and devise the appropriate improvement. We will continue monitoring and rolling out the new online health and safety reporting tool to improve the group operations performance on incidents reduction Welfare, Health and Safety Al Bustan Rotana achieves OHSAS 18001: 2007 Al Bustan Rotana Dubai, has achieved the Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification. This is a high level health and safety management system process which contains systematic approach of identifying and managing various health and safety hazards lying at the work place. Additionally, OHSAS 18001:2007 helps the hotel to define the optimum working conditions for the colleagues to reduce workplace hazards and boost colleague morale, creating a positive environment. Rotana – Daman health and wellbeing programme The Rotana-Daman wellness programme was implemented to raise Rotana’s colleague’s health awareness and help them achieving a work -life balance. The enrolled participants: • Attended health awareness session • Completed health risk assessment • Completed the medical health screening (weight, BMI, fat %, muscles %, metabolic rate, water %, blood sugar, blood lipid profile) • Attended one to one meeting with a personal coach to assess, classify the colleague health risk level and to draw individual participants’ road map • Tracked personal activities using the Fitbit tracker with individual goals set for each colleague • Attended weekly fitness classes, increased daily activities and followed a healthy diet More than half of the participants had poor to fair heart fitness. 16% of the males had superior heart fitness while only 4% of the females have so. Risk category 28% 40% 32% Male 47% 25% 28% Female 20% 52% 28% Low Medium High In parallel, several activities, awareness campaign and programmes were implemented to boost the health and safety culture of our colleagues. Every hotel appoints a designated person, environment, health and safety manager or officer to oversee health and safety issues and to establish an EHS committee which comprises representatives of various departments who meet on a monthly basis to review progress, develop programmes, investigate incidents, develop awareness campaigns and set corrective actions and control measures in the operation. The Environment, Health and Safety Management System, EHSMS, manual was rolled out across all opearting hotels in different regions.