Staff celebrate occupational International Safety Week
Employees at each of Cambodia’s airports recently spent a week discussing safety management and proper practices.
There are few workplaces that require staff to follow safety practices as stringently as airports do. To help ensure Cambodia Airports staff are prepared to detect and prevent hazards on the job, employees at all three airports spent a week in October reviewing best practices as they celebrated VINCI Airports’ International Safety Week.
Between October 15 and 19, several initiatives were addressed to help staff members hone their skills in detecting suspicious human behavior, practicing first aid techniques, staying active on the job, and using the proper tools for any given task.
This year, Cambodia’s airports chose to highlight the importance of proper technique when performing physical tasks to help avoid any future pain or malady. Staff were reminded about the long-term effects of poor posture, and at the end of the week participants were given the chance to play a quiz game on the topic and win prizes as a result.
VINCI Airports, which operates all three airports in the Kingdom via its subsidiary Cambodia Airports, has made a global name for itself through its commitment to optimum working conditions and high-quality service at each of its locales. Its commitment is perhaps best exemplified in its annual safety week, which is held at each of its operating sites worldwide.
Staying Safe and Winning Big: Health and Safety Challenge
Safety is extremely important -and it can be just as fun, too. In addition to its annual safety week, VINCI Airports hosts a bi-annual competition to encourage and recognize the initiatives taken by each employee to improve occupational health and safety.
Teams of employees at each of Cambodia’s three airports were encouraged to work together to create entries in three main safety categories: human aspects and behavior, management and organisation, and techniques, equipment and tools.
In the human behavior category, a team at Phnom Penh International won for its creation of the Airside Safety Handbook -written in both English and Khmer- which provides guidelines on how to handle the most common hazards on the job.
Two teams based at Siem Reap International were also awarded for their projects on promoting teamwork through organisation and on modifying hard hats to be even more effective, given in the management category and equipment category, respectively.
An additional prize was awarded to a Phnom Penh International team for development of a nationwide certification process for firemen.