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PTBA Held a Health and Safety Investigation Workshop
To improve the quality of occupational safety and provide or establish a safe working environment, PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk (PTBA) held a Workshop on Investigation K3 (Health and Safety) which followed by employees of PTBA, children and grandchildren of the company, as well as employees of business partners in the Head Office of PTBA, Tanjung Enim, on mid-November 2016.
General Manager of Tanjung Enim Mining Unit (UPTE) of PTBA Suhedi said, the workshop is a follow up from the Regulation of The Minister Energy and Mineral Resources of Republic of Indonesia (ESDM RI) No. 38 of 2014 on The Safety Management System of Mining (FSMS). Therefore, a good opportunity for employees to ask any things related to safety work.
"Although the implementation of K3 at Bukit Asam had a long run, but we would not be complacent for granted and always up to date. We always try to get a refresher, "said Suhedi.
According to him, in terms of investigations K3, PTBA formed a special team of cross-cutting in the hope that the implementation of the investigation be fair.
"So we affirm, safety affairs it is our responsibility not only working unit K3," said Suhedi.
By following The K3 Investigation Workshop, participants are expected to increasingly understand how ways of doing good investigative, data search technique, the determination of critical points, and so on.
"With a good understanding of K3 investigations we expect to improve safety, create improvements in workplace safety, so as to reduce and prevent workplace accidents," said Suhedi.
Meanwhile, representatives of the Association of Professional Safety Mining Indonesia (APKPI) Dani Wira Handoor which presented by PTBA to become a speaker of the event, said, follow-up with the enactment of ESDM No. 38 of 2014, are socializing throughout the year 2015, followed by a phase of implementation in the year 2016.
"Today we've reached the end of 2016, then later in 2017 to do an audit regarding the implementation of ESDM No. 38 of 2014, due to the regulation enacted one of them to ensure the implementation of activities in the mining could walk safely," said Dani Wira Handoko.
K3 Investigation Workshop which held by PTBA is the last activity of a series of National Movement (Gernas K3) in 2016 which started in February this year.
