CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Successfully launched the companywide BOOKS FOR LOVE @ $10 mobilised 2023-2025 Health and Safety Roadmap, a team of 6,000 volunteers to raise a further reinforcing our Zero Harm fund of HK$1,147,950 Commitment Hong Kong Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland In 2023, we offered more than 154,000 hours of training • Life Saving Rules Campaign – delivered to frontline and development in the areas of leadership and teams focusing on raising awareness and preventative management, technology, IT, sustainability, diversity and actions in terms of potential fatal hazards associated inclusion, languages, health and safety and employee with their activities. wellness. To drive diversity and inclusion, we set a gender • High Potential Near Miss Investigations – introduced to balance target of maintaining female representation at no identify the contributing factors and root causes of less than 40%. In 2023, 41.9% of our workforce is female. serious near miss incidents with the aim of preventing Health & Safety recurrence via corrective actions and lessons sharing. In 2023, we continued to make progress towards our Zero We continued to collaborate with our contractors to adopt Harm commitment with year-on-year reductions in lost cutting-edge technologies to improve site safety during the time injuries and the number of lost days. Overall, the lost construction stage of our new projects. These include a time injury rate and lost day rate improved by 9.2% and trial of a semi-autonomous ceiling drilling robot at the 27.4% respectively compared to 2022. Six Pacific Place project. Smart cloud-based construction In 2023, we successfully launched the company-wide monitoring platforms will be adopted for the Chai Wan 2023-25 Health and Safety Roadmap to clearly define the residential project in Hong Kong, as well as the Xi’an and priorities, approach and objectives for Health and Safety Sanya projects in the Chinese Mainland. (H&S) over the next three years. The four core elements of Our commitment to H&S was recognised at several industry the roadmap are: awards including the Six Pacific Place project and Gammon, • Design for Safety – included in the Company’s as general contractor, won the Gold Award for the second Development Charter which aims to remove hazards consecutive year at the Considerate Contractors Site Award from the workplace via a structured multi-disciplined Scheme 2023, organised by the Construction Industry approach to H&S and maintainability considerations Council and Development Bureau. Under the alteration and during the planning and design stages of projects. additions (A&A) works category, PCCW Tower and Dorset House received Merit Awards. Our Health & Safety training • Deep Dive Safety Inspection Programme – to inspect programme won the Award for Excellence in Training and 110 buildings and facilities across the Company to Development organised by The Hong Kong Management identify and remove or mitigate serious hazards. Association. Over 60 inspections were conducted in 2023. 130