GELANG PATAH: Country Garden Pacificview Sdn Bhd, the developer of the Forest City project, today announced that Plot 4 of its development has achieved the status of One Million Man-Hours free of any Lost Time Injury (LTI).
The recognition was given by the Johor Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) to the project's main contractor, Giant Leap Construction Sdn Bhd, at a ceremony on the project site here today.
Giant Leap Construction recorded 1,112,920 man-hours without lost time injury since piling for Plot 4 started in Oct 1 last year until Aug 16.
Country Garden Pacificview engineering and technical department head, Wu Yang said the recognition marked a new milestone for the mega project, and hopes the achievement will spur other construction companies to embrace excellence.
Plot 4 on Island One comprises 1,000 units of houses in one 40-storey building and three other 35-storey buildings.
The entire Plot 4 area covers 18.7 million square metres.
"As Forest City is a mega project spanning 20 years of development, we have to make workplace safety our top priority.
"We need a huge pool of highly ethical contractors to contribute to the good reputation of Forest City as a contemporary urban icon," he said.
"We need to be selective in our choice of contractors as the Forest City development is growing bigger in size each day, and this achievement marks the start of bigger things to come," Wu said.
Meanwhile, Johor DOSH director Saiful Azhar Mohd Said said that occupational safety and health aspects of work sites must be given priority by employers in every sector and industry.
"A conducive work environment should be provided so that employees can carry out their duties comfortably, safely and healthily. This will make sure that the public near the workplace will live in a safe, secure and prosperous environment," he said.
He said based on statistics by Johor DOSH, there were 822 active construction sites registered in Johor and out of that figure, 12 sites were operating in Forest City.
Also present were Forest City Plot 4 safety and health officer chief B. Pupathy, Country Garden Pacificview Project Team 1 head Peng Guo Qiang, Giant Leap Construction director Tian Yue Long, and representatives from the six subcontractors of Giant Leap Construction: Haisong Construction (M) Sdn Bhd, Yong Fu Construction Sdn Bhd, Wuhan Ming Hong Overseas Enterprise Sdn Bhd, Zhong Da Construction Sdn Bhd and Million Growth Builder Sdn Bhd.