Case study: How GAR promotes employee health, safety and wellbeing
As a leading global integrated palm oil plantation company, whose activities range from cultivating and harvesting oil palm trees and processing fresh fruit bunches into crude palm oil (CPO) to refining CPO into industrial and consumer products and merchandising palm products around the globe, creating a safer workplace for all employees is a key priority for GAR(Golden Agri-Resources Ltd).
Abstract
GAR manages 167 oil palm estates, with a total area of 485,600 hectares. Promoting a healthy and safe working environment for 49,000 direct employees, 67,000 smallholders and 58,000 casual workers is, thus, a key priority. In order to promote employee health, safety and wellbeing GAR took action to:
• introduce a new Health and Safety policy
• offer employees access to healthcare
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