• Sunway aligns closely with national safety legislation and master plans, integrating compliance, talent development and leadership empowerment into a strategic OHSE roadmap aimed at achieving a generative safety culture by 2030.

• Through active engagement, stakeholder collaboration and education-focused initiatives such as OSHE Week and first aid training, we foster a proactive and resilient workplace culture committed to health, safety, and environmental sustainability.

Sunway’s efforts in creating safe and sustainable workplaces for employees. 

To ensure safer and healthier workplaces for all, the government outlined its vision in the National Occupational Safety and Health Master Plan 2021–2025 (OSHMP25).  

The national plan focuses on fostering compliance, adopting best practices, leveraging data for continual improvement, and empowering people and leaders towards safer work environments.  

The governments enhanced focus comes at a time when industries are increasingly prioritising employee wellbeing and sustainability in response to both regulatory requirements and rising stakeholder expectations. 

For a safer and healthier Malaysia 

In line with the goals of OSHMP25, the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (OSHA) was significantly amended, and enforced in June 2024, to cover all work places, impose substantially increased penalties and punishments for violations, and introduce new duties of an employer, among others. 

OSHA Amendments 2022

Similarly, the Environmental Quality (Amendment) Act 2024 enforced in July mandates significantly stricter penalties, enabling decisive action to be taken against environmental offenders. 

Deemed the most severe of environmental violations – water pollution and improper disposal of scheduled waste – the amended legislation stipulates fines ranging from RM50,000 to RM10 million and mandatory imprisonment of up to five years. 

Key Amendments to EQA

Stakeholder safety as priority  

At Sunway, our strategic OHSE plan integrates the masterplan’s core principles which include compliance, best practices, advanced reporting, people or talent development, and leadership empowerment into all operational aspects. 

Towards our vision of a generative safety culture by 2030, our OHSE strategy includes a five-year plan to instil self-regulation and achieve the highest level of safety maturity by 2030.  

This journey is guided by the Safety Culture Journey framework which outlines five levels of safety maturity which are pathological, reactive, calculative, proactive and generative. 

The latter is achieved when safety fully integrated into the organisation’s culture, with all stakeholders autonomously advocating for and practicing safety. 

Our goal at Sunway, is to reach this generative level, where trust, accountability, and informed decision-making are inherent across all operations.  

Collaboration and engagement 

Building a culture requires outreach and support from our stakeholders.  

In 2024 alone, Sunway engaged with various professional bodies to share and learn together with fellow OSH practitioners. 

2024 External engagements

• Senior management of several of our business units had a successful and fruitful OHS Dialogue Session with the Selangor’s Department of Occupational Safety and Health on 4th November 2024.
• Ms Khadijah Hussin from Sunway Property was invited by DOSH to share her experience with the newly introduced Construction Works Design & Management (CWDM) Regulations 2024 to an audience of different industry players.
• Mr Harcharan Singh from Sunway Building Materials Group was also invited by DOSH representing Malaysia to deliver a keynote speech at the ASEAN OSHNET Award in Singapore in September 2024.
• We had also been invited by local universities to give career talks and OSH awareness sharing sessions which benefitted more than 1,000 students from UPM, UiTM and UNISEL to name a few.

To promote awareness while highlighting the importance of safety education and collaboration within our Sunway community, we organised a number of successful events throughout 2024. 

We conducted our first Basic Occupational First Aid internal training session and successfully trained more than 20 employees of Menara Sunway to be certified first aiders. 

To identify areas of improvement within Menara Sunway facilities and encourage meaningful conversations around workplace safety and health, our first Senior Management safety walkabout was initiated and led by Sunway Group president Tan Sri Chew Chee Kin. 

Also the chairman of both Group OSHE Council and Board of Sustainability Committee, Tan Sri Chew takes a proactive approach in reinforcing preventive safety culture; by initiating our inaugural Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE) Week to promote awareness and engagement on OSHE topics.  

OSHE Week 2024 Highlights

• We collaborated with several speakers to provide talks on occupational health topics ranging from Automated External Defibrillator (AED) awareness to The Art of Sustainable Weight Loss. 
• We also facilitated free health screenings and blood donations drive during the event. 
• We had invited PERKESO to deliver talks and share their data on commuting accidents.  
• We also held an e-waste recycling booth and invited the Department of Environment (DOE) officer to address the issue on environmental pollution from improper e-waste disposal. 
• Additionally, we had also invited Department of Occupational Safety and Health to do a briefing on the newly amended OSHA 1994 to our stakeholders which included our top management, OHS practitioners and coordinators from all business units and other relevant workers.  

These initiatives reflect our commitment to integrating education, engaging employees, and fostering collaboration to enhance safety culture across all levels. 

Guided by our strategic OHSE plan, we strive to empower our stakeholders to adopt health and safety principles to create a more resilient environment where everyone contributes to a safe and thriving community.