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Safety Workshop:
Safety Excellence-Enhancing Effective Safety Leadership Communication for Worker Engagement and Behaviour
HRDC CLAIMABLE
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PHYSICAL OPTION
Venue: Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya Dates: 28 - 29 July 2026 Time: 9.00 AM - 5.00 PM Trainer: Ir Kalyana Lakshmi Raman Registration Fee: IEM Member Fee- RM 1,620.00 Public Registration Fee - RM 1,890.00 ( 8% SST Applies) |
ONLINE OPTION
Venue: Zoom Meeting Dates: 6 - 7 October 2026 Time: 9.00 AM - 5.00 PM Trainer: Ir Kalyana Lakshmi Raman Registration Fee: IEM Member Fee- RM 864.00 Public Registration Fee - RM 1,080.00 (8% SST Applies) |
Synopsis
The recent amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act (2020) and the repeal of the Factories and Machinery Act (2022) signal a national shift toward strengthening regulatory enforcement, enhancing risk mitigation, and embedding long-term behavioural change across industries. Yet, statistics reveal that workplace injuries and fatalities remain a significant concern—with over 34,000 injury cases recorded in 2022 alone. This calls for urgent, unified efforts from every level of the organisation.
The objective of this workshop is designed to support organisations in transforming workplace safety from a compliance obligation into a shared culture of accountability, awareness, and proactive leadership.
This workshop aims to empower safety professionals, line managers, and senior leadership to drive real,
lasting improvement through:
The objective of this workshop is designed to support organisations in transforming workplace safety from a compliance obligation into a shared culture of accountability, awareness, and proactive leadership.
This workshop aims to empower safety professionals, line managers, and senior leadership to drive real,
lasting improvement through:
- Clear and consistent safety leadership at all organisational levels,
- Effective job planning and hazard recognition practices,
- Robust systems of incident reporting and follow-through, and
- Behaviour-based safety strategies that move beyond systems into mindsets.
Learning Outcomes
This workshop is to specifically educate and train participants on:
- Understanding the critical role of leadership communication in shaping a strong safety culture
- Developing skills on how to positively and effectively communicate safety concerns, observations and expectations when engaging workers, by utilising high impact multiple leadership communication channels that will keep safety front and center.
- Learning about roles and key responsibilities in the safety roadmap resource chain and the tools needed to encourage and foster a culture of shared responsibilty in high quality safety management.
- Learning the fundamentals of a behaviour based safety (BBS) observation/audit process to actively involve and engage workers to participate in safety initiatives - increasing meaningful safety leadership and communication.
Our Speaker
Ir Kalyana Lakshmi Raman is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia and a HRDC ‘train the trainer’ (ttt) certified professional. Raman completed a 5-year spell in the UK with Babcock Power Limited in the late seventies, returned to Malaysia and was involved in the design, engineering and start-up of large scale fossil fuel fired power plants with the local power authority. He subsequently worked with ICI Malaysia Holdings and was involved in the design, engineering and start-up of several chemical facilities in the country. Raman transitioned into Safety, Health & Environment (SH&E) in the early nineties and was the regional SH&E manager for ICI Acrylics International, Asia Pacific.
Head hunted by Cabot Corporation in 1999 as the Asia Pacific SH&E Director and a member of the regional business leadership team, Raman was instrumental in the successful design and execution of critical business and manufacturing related SH&E initiatives that underpinned a year-on-year world class performance for the regional and global organisation. With Raman’s leadership and direction, the regional business achieved an 80% reduction in OSHA recordable injuries and a 90% improvement in environmental non-conformance across the system. In addition, Raman had full SH&E oversight and accountability for the successful construction and start-up of several global scale green-field and brown field chemical plants in China, Indonesia, India and Malaysia including the SH&E integration of several chemical plant acquisitions in Japan.
A recognized leader of international SH&E management with an extensive and strong track record in the chemical and industrial manufacturing business, Raman is passionately committed to working with senior business and manufacturing leaders in constructing world class partnering strategies, to promote a 0-injury culture.
Head hunted by Cabot Corporation in 1999 as the Asia Pacific SH&E Director and a member of the regional business leadership team, Raman was instrumental in the successful design and execution of critical business and manufacturing related SH&E initiatives that underpinned a year-on-year world class performance for the regional and global organisation. With Raman’s leadership and direction, the regional business achieved an 80% reduction in OSHA recordable injuries and a 90% improvement in environmental non-conformance across the system. In addition, Raman had full SH&E oversight and accountability for the successful construction and start-up of several global scale green-field and brown field chemical plants in China, Indonesia, India and Malaysia including the SH&E integration of several chemical plant acquisitions in Japan.
A recognized leader of international SH&E management with an extensive and strong track record in the chemical and industrial manufacturing business, Raman is passionately committed to working with senior business and manufacturing leaders in constructing world class partnering strategies, to promote a 0-injury culture.
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Terms & Conditions:
IEMTA reserves the right to postpone, reschedule, allocate or cancel the course. Full refund less 30% if cancellation is received in writing more than 7 days before the start of the event. No cancellation will be accepted prior to the date of the event. However, replacement or substitute may be made at any time with prior notification and substitute will be charged according to membership status. |