Sustainability
Environmental
We are dedicated to make a healthy profit, but not at the expense of our environment. We have introduced a range of initiatives throughout our operations in order to foster a culture focused on sustainability.
Environmental Policy
Central Medicare Sdn. Bhd. is committed to promote continuing effort to enhance environmental performance through integration of consistent good practices into our design, development and manufacturing of gloves operations, including:
- To be conscious of the environmental aspects and commit to prevent its pollution and protect the environment;
- To commit to fulfill relevant compliance obligations;
- To educate and train to ensure overall environmental awareness among employees.
- Provides a framework for setting environmental objectives
To establish and commit to continually improve the effectiveness of the environmental management system based on ISO 14001 requirements.
ISO 14001: 2015 Certification
We initiated ISO 14000 Certification in 11 February 2020 and received ISO 14001:2015 accreditation in January 2021.
In line with this project, awareness campaigns have been carried out to boost awareness and educate staff of all levels on the importance of environmental management. To-date, workers have taken the initiative to design creative 3R bins which are now displayed at designated areas to encourage recycling habits.
Energy Saving Project Phase 4
Energy saving project is a 3-year contracted project following the guidelines from Energy Commission Malaysia that was implemented since January 2018.
During phase 4, project team had completed replacing over 90% of fluorescent lights to LED lights which could save up to 29.36% of energy. Alongside, the team is continuously improving the production main oven motor energy consumption. CMSB targets to work towards ISO 50001 Certification: Energy Management Systems in the coming future.
Sustainability
Social
Social Compliance
As part of our commitment to social corporate responsibility and our obligation to ethical trade and business, we became a member of Supplier Ethical Data Exchange ("Sedex") on 9 June 2019.
Since its enrolment, Central Medicare has undergone two Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit ("SMETA") audits conducted by independent auditors, in June 2019 and November 2019.
SMETA is an ethical audit methodology developed by Sedex that covers Sedex's four pillars of labour, health and safety, environment and business ethics. SMETA audits are governed by, among others, the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code ("ETI Base Code") and local law.
We are committed to the development of our people and of the community around us. We have developed learning and development programs for our employees relating to our integrated management system, our ISO system, our HR policies and our SHE policies and protocols as well as on-the-job training and cross-functional refresher initiatives.
Our focus on ESG is also reflected in our supply chain management efforts, as we expect our vendors to meet our quality standards. We require pre-qualification of potential vendors and conduct periodic performance assessments with all of our vendors.
Corporate Social Responsibilities
CMSB seeks to enrich the lives of needy and less fortunate in the community that we do our business. We involve our employees in our welfare and charity works organized by the company as part of our corporate social responsibility.