PANGKALPINANG -- PT Timah is holding a number of internal and external activities to commemorate National K3 Month 2024. National K3 Month 2024 which carries the theme 'Cultivate K3, Healthy and Safe at Work, Maintain Business Sustainability'.
National K3 Month commemoration at PT Timah will be held from January 12 to February 12 2024 in various company operational areas.
Various activities carried out by PT Timah include K3 meetings, signing K3 commitments, danger simulations, competitions, blood donations, health checks for the community, and giving awards to stakeholders.
In the 2024 National K3 Call, each Wilasi head read out a message from the Director of Risk Management and HSSE MIND ID Nur Hidayat Udin. This mandate emphasizes a number of important messages about K3 Culture that must be implemented in the work environment.
Members of the MIND ID Mining Industry also held blood donations which were carried out in the Belitung operational area and the Engineering and Mine Support Division in collaboration with PMI Bangka Regency.
Apart from that, PT Timah also provides health services for the community through Healthy Cars which are implemented in Wilasi Belitung.
PT Timah President Director Ahmad Dani Virsal said PT Timah is very committed to implementing K3 culture in all company business processes.
"In carrying out the company's business processes, PT Timah is committed to implementing a K3 culture. Preventing and evaluating every potential risk, including minor accidents, serious accidents, and even fatalities," he said.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Energy and Natural Resources Service Branch of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Bangka Region, Lisbagyo, said that the K3 Call was not only ceremonial. But to remind you of the importance of work safety.
"The National K3 Month Ceremony is not just a ceremony, but reminds us all of the importance of work safety related to operations and production at PT Timah," he said.
He assessed that the implementation of K3 Culture at PT Timah was quite good, but evaluation still needed to be carried out to prevent fatalities.
"The implementation of K3 at PT Timah is quite good and of course, we hope that PT Timah will continue to carry out evaluations so that accidents that have occurred do not happen again and do not let fatalities occur during mining activities," he said.
Likewise, the Head of the Training and Workforce Placement Division of the Bangka Regency Industry and Trade Manpower Service, Insyira Subagia, hopes that PT Timah can improve the implementation of K3 because it is a form of health and safety guarantee for workers.
"So far, from our observation, PT Timah has been quite good and very good at implementing the K3 Culture. This can be seen from the level of accidents, the disasters that have occurred at PT Timah have been very minimal," he said. (*)
