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Greenwave Environmental Care Project
SembMarine’s subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard launched
the Green Wave Environmental Care Project (www.sembship.com/greenwave)
for schools in Singapore in January 2003.
Open to all students, the Green Wave Environmental Care
Project competition aims to inspire and motivate young
minds to think innovatively and adopt advanced technologies
on environmental protection and improvement so as to
inculcate a sense of personal and group responsibility
for their own environment in the students.
The first project of its kind in the Singapore marine
engineering industry, winners of the award not only
take home prize money but starting 2004, will have the
opportunity to take up developmental attachments with
Sembawang Shipyard and its alliance partners, such as
Shell Trading and BP Shipping.
The inaugural award presentation ceremony was held on
November 27, 2003, with Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister for
the Environment as the Guest-of-Honour.
SARS Efforts
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus invaded
Singapore borders in February 2003. For three months,
our nation battled against SARS on all fronts and on
May 31, 2003, the World Health Organisation announced
that Singapore was removed from its list of SARS affected
countries.
During the SARS outbreak, we at SembCorp Industries
undertook prompt actions to help control and prevent
the spreading of SARS.
A taskforce was promptly set up at the SembCorp Industries
corporate headquarters to look at ways to effectively
and swiftly implement, control and manage the SARS threat.
Precautionary measures included the suspension of all
business travel to SARS-affected countries, temperature
screening for all employees and visitors, enhanced cleaning
of common areas, issuance of personal hand sanitisers
and thermometers, and the review of business continuity
plans across our businesses.
Apart from putting SARS preventive measures in place,
our businesses also actively contributed to helping
the nation in its bid to combat the virus.
SembLog was activated by the government to help combat
SARS in April 2003. Its role was to provide logistics
support and procurement services for essential supplies
such as isolation gowns, gloves, respiratory masks and
thermometers. In a true test of our supply chain management
readiness, a 24-hour Operations Centre was set up within
days to provide a single point of contact for all parties
and to co-ordinate the requirements from various agencies
and departments.Besides providing medical supplies to
the hospitals, SembLog also sourced for some 2 million
oral digital thermometers, equipping all school-going
children with a thermometer and 1 million households
in Singapore with a SARS toolkit that included a thermometer
and masks, among other items.
SembWaste Medical, a subsidiary of SembEnviro, also
played an essential role in ensuring no recontamination
through proper handling of medical waste and its incineration.
SembWaste Medical employees are trained in proper collection
procedures and drive a fleet of specially-designed trucks
that are watertight and regularly disinfected. SembWaste
Medical’s systems allowed workers to continue collecting
potentially life-threatening waste. Essential services
were kept functioning at a time of international crisis,
underpinning Singapore's post-SARS recovery.
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