Over the past three years, the Safety, Health, Environment and National Authority, SHENA has extended its outreach to workplaces across the country. Through its regulatory monitoring visits and inspections, SHENA had the opportunity to engage with a number of organisations and their workers with the intention to improving Health, Safety and Environment, HSE in work practices and to seek compliance to relevant law. This was shared by Awang Haji Azhar bin Haji Yahya, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Energy as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of SHENA at the French Bruneian Business Association, FBBA HSE forum. The event took place yesterday afternoon at Radisson Hotel in the capital.
Awang Haji Azhar said that collaborating with all the stakeholders and continued support to work with SHENA has made a justifiable difference in raising and promoting HSE standards in the workplace and preventing work-related injuries, and in particular fatalities.
Also present, His Excellency Christian Ramage, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France to Brunei Darussalam and a Patron of FBBA. The forum titled ‘Resilience is Being Prepared, the SHENA Story: An Engagement with FBBA’ was hosted by FBBA and SHENA provided a platform to engage with relevant stakeholders and raise awareness on issues pertaining to workplace safety and health in pursuit to make Brunei Darussalam a safe place to work and live. The forum was attended by 100 participants comprising members of FBBA.
Source: Radio Television Brunei