MANUFACTURING
Ensuring Manufacturing Excellence
Introduction
SilTerra is committed to the EHS excellence of our facilities. The focus on the health and safety of our people and the protection of our environment continues to be an essential aspect of our business. We integrate EHS into all areas our business, from our supply chain, to the development of our solutions and our manufacturing processes.
Environmental, Health & Safety Policy
Environmental Policy
We are committed to the protection of the environment, including the prevention of pollution and continual improvement of Environmental performance through an Environmental Management System.
We shall:
Fulfill our compliance obligations
Optimize the usage of hazardous chemicals and gases
Minimize the release of pollutants to air, water and land
Minimize the consumption of natural resources
Minimize the generation of general waste and schedule waste
Foster employee and contractor awareness of environmental issues through training,campaign and promotions
Safety & Health Policy
SilTerra is committed to adopting the best industrial practices in providing a safe work environment meeting or exceeding applicable legal and other requirements. We are also commited to continual improvement of Occupational Safety and Health performance through excellence in our Occupational Safety and Health Management System.
We adhere strongly to the following safety and health principles:
All injuries and ill-health can be prevented
All hazards can be controlled
Working safely is a condition of employment
Everyone is responsible for safety
Everyone will be trained to work safely
Environmental Management System (EMS)
We have implemented an Environmental Management System to improve the environmental performance of our business. SilTerra’s EMS received the ISO14001 certification in August 2002.
We monitor all environmental regulatory requirements to ensure compliance.
We also establish environmental goals to go beyond compliance in the areas of pollution prevention, minimization of toxic and hazardous materials, water and energy conservation and solid waste reduction.
EHS Social Responsibility & Activities
1. EHS talks
Speakers were invited from various organizations and ministries to deliver talks on areas related to EHS
2. Safety video contest
3. EHS treasure hunt
4. "No plastic bag" campaign
5. Recycle days
6. Herbal garden
Recycling Days activities
'No plastic bag' campaign
Organizing team
Chemical Leak Drill with HAZMAT and Kulim Hospital
Program
1. EHS Talks
2. Treasure hunt
3. Safety Video
4. Recycling Days
Recycling Days committee
Treasure Hunt winners
Visiting exhibitions
Organizing committee members
1. Talks
2. Recycling campaign
3. ERT competition
Bomba Kulim Hi-Tech Hazmat Exhibition
Various Exhibitions
From April to June, SilTerra has sent three groups of ERT members for teambuilding at Outward Bound School (OBS) Lumut, Perak. Various activities have been conducted such as indoor activities (forming, brain storming and performing session), jungle tracking (Map and Compass training), raft making, rafting and kayaking from OBS to Teluk Sekadeh, Pangkor Island.
Team Dynamic - Problem solving in team
Jungle Tracking - Map and Compass training
Raft making and rafting
Kayak from OBS, Lumut to Teluk Sekadeh, Pangkor Island
SilTerra has conducted EHS Week 2012 on October 2012 with the theme "Safe Riding to Work Campaign".
Various activities have been conducted during the event such as police talk, Jabatan Keselamatan Jalan Raya (JKJR) talk, helmet & safety vest give away by SOCSO & JKJR and demo on motorbike defensive riding training. SilTerra has also invite Kulim Industrial Tenants Association (KITA) members to join this event. The response from employee & KITA members have been very encouraging.
ERT Ironman Competition has been conducted in 2012.
The purpose of this competition is to make sure all ERT members familiar with ERT equipment such as Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA), location of all fire extinguishers in office building, grid in Sub-Fab, communication by using walkie talkies, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) computer and be able to rescue or response in emergency situation.
Four ERT members have to work together as a team.
ERT members work together to look for solutions of the given task
On 23rd-24th October 2012, EHS Dept and Lithography Dept joint effort to organize Recycling Days.
All employees were encouraged to donate their waste and received environmental merit hours. A total of 1072kg of aluminum, glass, paper and plastic waste have been collected and recycled.
SilTerra has been awarded National Safety and Health award 2012 for the electrical and electronic sector on 30 October 2012 at the ceremony held in Putrajaya convention center.
SilTerra CEO, Dr Kamarulzaman received the award given by Minister of Human Resources, Dr S Subramaniam.
National Safety and Health award is an annual event organized by Department of Safety and Health Malaysia (DOSH) to recognize company for implementing good safety management system and achieve good safety records.
SilTerra has implemented a few safety and health systems that impressed the DOSH auditors such as safety and health element in Key Result Area, online system for reporting near misses or potential accident and online tracking issues raised during audits, incident actions item or modification of systems to ensure all actions items are closed.
This recognition shall drive SilTerra effort to maintain and continual improvement of the safety and health standard.
2 sessions of Environmental Talks have been successfully conducted on 23th and 24th October 2012.
The talk was given by SilTerra EHS personnel who has good knowledge on Global Warming topic.
On 6 Oct 2011, SilTerra has held "Barter Day" as part of environmental activity. The objectives of this event is to raise awareness and encourage involvement of employees in recycling activity.
We encouraged employees to bring recycle items from home and exchange it with fruits. The recycle items that are able to exchange with fruits are paper, plastic bottle, glass and aluminium.
We have successfully collected about 963 kg of recycle item and the collection was donated to Kulim charity house.
Employee exchange the recycle items with fruits. Overwhelming response from employees Recycle items were weighted and send to collector
A campaign to encourage employees to come to work using bicycle has been launched on the 4th Oct 2011 as part of EHS Week 2011 main event.
SilTerra's CEO, Dr Kamarulzaman presented to the launching which was held in the Auditorium.
On the 17 March 2011, SilTerra organized an environmental event involving employees and their family members. It was an one-day event where the participants were required to apply their creativity to transform recycle paper-based products into something useful. At the end of the day, selected judges arrived with results to declare winners who achieved the highest score based on certain criteria. 27 families participated in this event.
Participants were busy doing their masterpiece from paper
HAZMAT drill has been conducted in November 2011 with Bomba Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP) together with police and hospital. The purpose of this drill is to make sure Bomba KHTP become more familiar with SilTerra high risk area and to identify the weaknesses in emergency response system.
On 6-8 May 2011, 5 SilTerra Green Team members participated in WWF Ulu Muda Lake Conservation Awareness trip.
The purpose of this trip is to expose Green Team members to the current issue of Ulu Muda forest such as logging & illegal hunting. It also enhance team building skill and give experience on environmental conservation effort at national level and support NGO such as WWF in environmental conservation project.
Ulu Muda forest is a habitat for substantial populations of large mammals, especially elephants & tapirs and there are rich diversity of birds including plain pouched hornbill.
Ulu Muda forest forms water catchments area for 3 large man-made lakes namely Muda, Ahning & Pedu, formed by the construction of 3 correspondingly-named dams that regulate water for drinking and irrigation at Kedah, Penang & Perlis.
A Saltlick is mineral spring or ground containing salt and other mineral, the consumption of which is conducive to the well being of wild animals.
Rain forest trail Wildlife Observation Rain trail Saltlick area visit
To ensure a safe and healthy workplace for all employees, visitors, and contractors, SilTerra has engaged the National Institute of Safety and Health (NIOSH) to provide occupational health and safety (OHS) training and certification for all contractors performing physical work in the premises (referred to as Contractor Safety Passport system - CSPS). This is in addition to the in-house EHS briefing, which is designed to inform the contractors of the emergency preparedness and response procedures, housekeeping practices, as well as environmental conservation requirements.
By engaging NIOSH in OHS training and certification, a uniform standard among all participating industries can be achieved, at minimal cost to the contractors, but enormous returns by absence of liabilities arising out of untoward incidents. Contractors will be given an identification badge, denoting their certification in general and/or specialized OHS safety certification. Recently, with collaboration with NIOSH and other factories, SilTerra has contributed to the upgrading of the CSPS program on as follows;
Certification duration extended from 1 year to 2 years General OHS training and certification includes multiple disciplines, previously separated, benefiting the bulk of contract workers. Disciplines, elected are frequent scenarios observed in factories, are ;
By ensuring all contractors equipped with basic knowledge on OHS, the workplace is secured from unwanted incidents that could lead to business liability. SilTerra adopts this principle to ensure a productive workplace and a profitable organization.
On 24th April 2010, SK Permatang Tiong committee have invited SilTerra EHS to join their environmental day which involved school children and villagers. We have donated RM1000 to school PIBG for student activity fund. About 250 people have joined this program and all the activities conducted in this program should have any environmental values as the criteria. Parts of the activities are coloring contest,art creation, WAU decorations, etc.
SilTerra EHS representative has delivered environmental talk and sharing a few tips on how to conserve the energy with the audience.
Part of the program activities
EHS Department with the help of other departments have organized a community project for the general public. The aim was to focus on creating awareness of the environment and its conservation. Our target crowds for this purpose were school children and the employees' housewives.
Tuan Hj Abu Bakar bin Md Ali who is the Education Officer of Kulim District had officiated the memorable event on the 11th Nov 2009 in our Auditorium. Sekolah Kebangsaan Tunku Abdul Malik, Kulim was given the honor to be the first school to participate in the program. About 130 pupils, 6 teachers and 2 housewives attended the inaugural function.
Two external speakers from Non-profit Environmental Group were invited by SilTerra. They are the Green Crusaders who shared their knowledge and experiences on ways of recycling domestic waste, and Garbage Enzyme Team who enlightened the crowd with ways to making cleaning agent from food waste.
It is our heartfelt hope that this project will enhance the awareness for our ailing environment and also SilTerra's involvement in the matter. EHS team are hoping more Silterrian shall champion or participate in environment activities organized by SilTerra or other NGOs in the future. We must have 3R mind in our daily activities ( Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)
In August 2008 SilTerra has conducted Fire extinguisher training to all employees as an effort to train employees to use fire extinguisher in emergency situation. This training is conducted once in 2 years.
On 25th Oct 07, SilTerra 's ERT members were invited to participate in the Joint ERT Drill for Pre-SAREX (Pre Search and Rescue) Exercise coordinated by Kulim Hospital. This Pre-SAREX was an emergency preparation by the Kedah Ministry of Health to equip themselves for the LIMA (Langkawi International & Maritime Aviation) Exhibition to be held in Dec. 07. All KIPEHS (Kulim Industrial Park EHS) Committee members in which SILTERRA is a member, were called in to take part in this eventful exercise.
SILTERRA having one of the biggest ERT team has been appointed to be the coordinator among the KIPEHS members and Mr. Shah Hazidi Hussein, the Facilities EHS Manager was selected as the chairman of the subcommittee. The exercise was considered as a platform for the participating factories to expose their ERT members to the real emergencies which involved external parties such as the Police, Bomba and the Hospital. This was also an avenue to enhance the rapport among the authorities.
A simulation was that two helicopters carried parachuters crashed in the air and landed in a lakeside area where a company was having its Family Day. Forty casualties were reported , 8 death, others ranges from critical, semi critical to non critical. Our ERT members who volunteered took part as the First Aiders , injured persons as well as observers.The exercise was carried out successfully and all parties which got involved managed to go back with invaluable experience which they can use at their workplace.
On 14th March 2010, SilTerra partnership with Junior Chamber International (JCI) Kulim have participate in Karnival Sukaneka Naga Lilit, Kulim. SilTerra & JCI set up a booth for fruit enzyme making demonstration and 50 bottles of enzyme have been distributed .Fruit enzyme is turning garbage into enzyme and use it for various application e.g. floor cleaning, fertilizer, perfume, etc. Many villagers visit our booth and enjoy the demonstration.
We achieved our objective to educate kampung folks on the use of fruit waste which indirectly help to reduce domestic waste produce daily.
EHS Department working closely with Bomba Hi-Tech and Kulim Hospital executed the annual fire drill at our office building on 9th Dec 09. The objective of the drill is to check the response of our Emergency Response Team (ERT), Bomba and Hospital and to ensure that our system worked as designed. This years scenario included 3 "victims" to help us practice the rescue method and assess our capability.
What went right ? The evacuation of the building took less than five minutes, which met our target. Our ERT responded quickly and were on stand-by for Bomba's arrival. Our 9 Office Fire Marshals did their job by sweeping their respective area and reporting to the ERT Incident Commander.
What went wrong ? The Fire Alarm automatic notification system (ABL) failed to notify Bomba . Our drill coordinator, Mr. Mike Foong, had to call Bomba directly. Bomba, with their siren blaring, arrived within five minutes after receiving the call.
The ambulance took twelve minutes, from the time of calling 999, to arrive as the system directed the call to Alor Setar who then forwarded it to Hospital Kulim. The badge scanning at assembly area was slow and employees were in long queues.
All the post mortems actions were discussed and shall be addressed as soon as possible to ensure that our emergency response system is always in the best working condition.
As commitment on OSH aspects SilTerra has gone through Sirim Audit certification on OHSAS 18001 in June 2008. OHSAS 18000 is an international occupational health and safety management system specification. SilTerra has been certified as OHSAS 18001 compliance in September 2008.
On 16th March 2010 SilTerra has involved in Environmental Community project with Komuniiti Bistari Mukim Keladi, Kulim. The program has been arranged by Komuniti Bistari Mukim Keladi Committee and supported by Pejabat Penerangan, Kulim. There are various activities have been conducted with kampung folks such as competition in use of recycle waste for tissue box creation, 'kerabu' making, kids coloring contest and environmental awareness talk.
SilTerra has sponsored RM1000 in this program and deliver a talk on 'Environmental Conservation' with the aims to educate community on the environmental issue and enhance their awareness to conserve energy.
Picture 1 :Tissue box creation from recycle waste Picture 2:'Kerabu' making Picture 3 : Participant work hard to finish their creation Picture 4 : Mr.Amir from SilTerra judge the 'kerabu' Picture 6 : Mr. Khairul start to conduct the environmental talk Picture 9 : Prizes giving to all the winners
127 ERT members have undergone and passed the Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) to evaluate their capability in using Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus.
On 5th December 2009, SilTerra had successfully completed another Environmental Conservation Project for the general public. This time we headed to Sedim River, a famous family recreation park 40km from Kulim. The SilTerra EHS team headed by Amir Hamzah was leading all other factories under the umbrella of Kulim Industrial Tenants Association (KITA) to perform a cleaning activity at Sedim River area. The objectives of the program are to :
Take care of our rivers from contamination. To inculcate the volunteer work spirit. To build in Gotong-Royong spirit that originated from kampong folks. To educate our future generation to protect our environment from pollution.
In our goal to conserve the environment, KITA members together in hand with Sedim villagers, had performed a cleaning activity at Sedim River. A total of about 17 Silterrians and 350 other participants took part in this activity driven by SilTerra and was highlighted in two daily newspapers namely Kwang Wah Jit Poh and Harian Metro
The activity was organized to create an appreciation and keenness to our rivers. By doing that, SilTerra also hoped to foster awareness in the community so as not to abuse and contaminate our vulnerable rivers. The activity was well received by Sedim folks and the same activity shall be organized by KITA next year as a quest to a better environment.
April 27, 2007 - Thanks to Silterrians efforts in conserving the environment, SilTerra have managed to collect an encouraging amount of waste that will be recycled for other uses. In this modern times, resources are scarce, and new technologies are being developed everyday to enable waste to be converted into something useful. Total weight collected 393.4kg amounting to RM64.75
April 18, 2006 - In conjunction with Fire Safety Awareness Month, EHS has arranged a special session on fire safety with Mr. Jeva, the officer for Fire & Rescue Department of KHTP. All employees and especially the ERT members were strongly recommended to attend the fire safety talk.
February 22, 2006 - In conjunction with Hand Safety Awareness Month, a short video concerning hand safety will be shown. Attendance is MANDATORY for all employees working in the fab or facilties and it is required to maintain Safety certification.
November 29, 2006 - Information was shared to all employees on what is recyclable and the arts for recycling them. Additional information were distributed including what are not recyclable as well as contractors and places to drop off recyclables.
November 16, 2006 - As part of SilTerra's Environmental Conservation program, 3 in-house recycle binds has been set up. These bins are for the employees to dispose paper wastes, aluminum cans and glass bottles. Each recycle bin is customized to collect different wastes as followings:
The recycle bins are located at the Car Pool Area. Proceeds received from selling the recycle wastes were donated to charity. This is part of SilTerra's move to instill the habit of recycling. At the same time SilTerra would like to be socially responsible and caring corporation.
On 26 May 2005, Mr. Bruce Gray, President/Chief Operating Officer (Acting CEO) of SilTerra launched Waste Recycling Program at Taman Hi-Tech Primary School. This is another community project organized by Facilities - Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS), the Green Team and CDEA. The objective of this program is to introduce the wastes recycling concept to the school and the KHTP community.
SilTerra donated 2 sets of recycle bins to Taman Hi-Tech Primary School to promote recycling habit among the school children. En. Khalid Salleh from PBT KHTP was invited to give a talk on waste recycling activity in KHTP area. Besides, coloring contest has been carried out prior launching ceremony to create awareness among young generations. Mr. Bruce Gray gave out prizes to the winners of coloring contest.
School students, parents, teachers, representatives from government agencies and industries in KHTP and SilTerrians joined to make the Waste Recycling Program a success.
SilTerra Environmental Day was launched on 19 Oct 2004. The day stated with a coloring contest by school children from school around Kulim, Kedah. Then in the evening, tree-planting event was held with a catchy theme - A Greener Earth For Future Generations. 210 trees were sponsored by SilTerrians & vendors. The trees were planted by SilTerra's employees around the premises.
SilTerra EHS Week 2003 was launched on 14 Oct 2003. This was the first ever event held in SilTerra. The Motto of this event is "Think Safety, Act Safely". There was about 900 people visited SilTerra. We have participants from government such as DOE, Bomba, and Police for the exhibition during the 3 days of EHS Week. There were also activities and talks for employees such as:
The EHS Week was well executed and successful. Employees learned about Environmental, Health and Safety through the exhibitions, quiz and activities. As token of appreciation, the management rewarded organizing committee and sub committee with certificate of appreciation.
This is another project under the EHS Social Responsibility & Activities. The objective is to promote recycling habit and be environmental friendly. We actually kill two birds with one stone, because this project also benefits the Joblink center, a center for physically challenged people, including the visually impaired, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome. We donated proceeds from the sales of tote boxes and recycled papers amounting to a sum of RM1300.00, where we bought Milo, creamer and biscuits. Apparently, Silterrians have good Samaritans spirits!
Environmental Systems & Performance
The facility is equipped with wastewater treatment and exhaust systems that ensure compliance to environmental, health and safety regulations at the workplace. We ensure compliance with stringent international and local environmental protection regulations on industrial effluents and air emissions through:
In addition to the above, scheduled (toxic) wastes are managed to comply with stringent regulatory requirements.
Waste Water Treatment
As per international standards, SilTerra analyzes and monitors the quality of waste water throughout the year. All waste water analytical results consistently adhere to the waste water standard of the Environmental Quality (Sewage & Industrial Effluents) Regulations 1979 in Malaysia.
Air Emission Facility
SilTerra is equipped with various exhaust systems such as scrubber systems, VOC abatement systems, general exhaust systems, to name a few. These state-of-the-art systems are designed to treat hot air, corrosive, flammable and hazardous fumes respectively from various buildings in SilTerra.
Waste Minimization
We systematically identify ways to reduce or eliminate waste primarily through source reduction and recycle, reclaim and reuse. Activities include:
Hazardous Substance Process Management
SilTerra is continuously working on reducing the use of banned substances in our final products.
In line with SilTerra's Hazardous Substance Process Management Policy, we regularly submit our products to accredited laboratories to be independently analyzed. This is to ensure that our products do not contain or exceed the hazardous substance concentration limits as stated in the RoHS, REACH and Sony Green Partner regulations.
SilTerra is also working closely with our material vendors to ensure that all procured materials do not contain or exceed the hazardous substance concentration limit as stated in the RoHS and REACH regulations.
For information regarding the health hazards and emergency procedures on Tetramethylammonium Hydroxide (TMAH), please view this document
For more information, please contact SilTerra's Hazardous Substance Process Management Team (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Conflict Minerals Management
SilTerra remains cognisant of the fact that the sourcing of certain metals such as gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten from conflict regions may contribute to the financing of weapons and violence, thus, fuelling conflict and violation to human rights in those regions. SilTerra performs strong due diligence procedures that are in line with the Responsible Minerals Initiative to ensure that the applicable raw minerals used in our manufacturing processes are not sourced from mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or its surrounding countries.
For more information, please contact SilTerra’s Customer Service (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
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