22 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2023 PILLAR 1: HUMAN CENTRIC Safety, Health & Well-Being People are our greatest asset, as ESR is not able to achieve its success without their unwavering support. We continue to expand our efforts to prioritise employee well-being and development and enhance collaboration across the enlarged Group. To promote a safe environment for our employees, we ensure full compliance with the relevant employment and occupational health and safety laws and regulations in all jurisdictions where we operate in. Occupational Health and Safety In alignment with the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety (“OHS”) international standard, various business units including ESR China, ESR Data Centre and ARA Property Management (representing around 10% of the Group’s total AUM as at end-2023) have obtained the ISO 45001 certification. This certification provides a framework to manage risks and improve on our OHS performance through policies, planning, implementation, auditing, and review. Key elements of this certification include hazard identification and risk assessment, legal and regulatory compliance, emergency planning, incident investigation and continual improvement. Building on good OHS standards, we intend to roll out this ISO 45001 certification to other business units within the Group going forward. In implementing OHS at the business unit level, our property and project managers are also required to attend Occupational First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (“CPR”), Automated External Defibrillator (“AED”) and the Company Emergency Response Team (“CERT”) training courses to equip themselves with skills to be in-house first responders. Specifically for our property development teams, there are established worksite safety programmes to enhance incidents prevention and emergency preparedness. In addition, there are measures in place on the oversight of the general contractor and related service providers, to ensure responsibility of the entire site and compliance with local building and safety regulations. This includes monitoring the number and status of contractors at sites, conducting periodic meetings to discuss related risks and ensuring that emergency trainings are conducted. We also work closely with our supply chain to ensure that employees of our contractors are provided with adequate standards of safety and health protection as specified in our Supplier Code of Conduct. Contractor Safety Management System In accordance with relevant and local workplace health and safety regulations, a robust contractor safety management system is implemented to integrate on-site health and safety management processes. At LOGOS, a centralised real-time dashboard manages contractors from pre-qualification to onboarding and ensure compliance with the Group’s environmental and H&S standards. To ensure that all incidents occurring in the worksite is investigated promptly, the Rapid Global dashboard also ensures that all incidents or non-compliance with safety standards and accidents involving employees and/or subcontractors are also reported to management in real-time, with effective and practical remedial measures are taken to prevent recurrence. Lessons learnt from incidents and near misses are shared with all relevant team members to prevent recurrence. Safety Leadership & Governance: A real example at one of our assets At Moorebank Logistics Estate, we have built a fully customised safety governance and reporting platform to enhance safety reporting and management of our 200+ hectare site. This customised LOGOS platform helps to streamline the process of collecting safety data and incident reports from all general contractors on a rolling and monthly basis. The cloud-based web platform allows workers to instantly access and contribute to the data conveniently. This project is built in collaboration with multiple joint venture development partners, to improve and integrate data analysis and reporting, specifically on safety. The objective is to drive effective decision making aligned to improving risk management, by identifying trends in development sites’ risk profile across each development stage. The project team undertook training and implementation, incorporating nine general contractor representatives on the use and participation of the safety platform. Going forward, the Group seeks to leverage the use of technology to advance health and safety topics, as well as gleaning insights from this project to apply to other assets.
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