Annual Report 2020

2020 Annual Report Transport International Holdings Limited 49 KMB and LWB are committing to safety performance KMB and LWB offer professional maintenance training to provide safe and quality bus service Safety Policy The KMB and LWB Safety Policy is dedicated on a commitment made by all employees to provide a safe and healthy environment for everyone who may be affected by our work activities. It is our objective to minimise the risk of injury and ill-health. Safety is an absolute pre-requisite in everything we do and is an integral part of our business strategy. Employees at all levels are required to comply with all legal requirements and other requirements applicable to our work activities. We consult our employees by engaging them in our safety management system. We shall continue to maintain our safety risks at as low a level as reasonably practicable and strive for continual improvement in safety performance. Safety Committees Safety Committees are responsible for ensuring that information about Occupational Safety and Health risks, trends and policies are adequately communicated up and down the chain of command. Meetings of the Working Committee for Safety are held to discuss safety issues at the corporate level. Meetings of Departmental Safety Committees, Maintenance Safety Committees and Operations Safety Committees are held at the local level to discuss safety issues relating to departments and sections. Departmental Safety Committees may vary the frequency of their meetings in accordance with the scale of their local safety risks. Safety Management We are dedicated to committing occupational health and safety and fully comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Chapter 509 and 59, Laws of Hong Kong). KMB adopts ISO45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System to promote further improvement of safety performance in all aspects of our business, including bus maintenance and design upgrades. The key benchmarks of our operational performance are mechanical reliability and operational capability. Mechanical reliability refers to the average number of kilometres a bus operates before it experiences one mechanical breakdown on the road with passengers on board. In 2020, the mechanical reliability of KMB’s bus fleet was 94,551 km: 1, while LWB’s bus fleet was 116,421 km: 1. Operational capability refers to the ratio of actual to scheduled departures during the peak hours of 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. across the bus network. In 2020, KMB and LWB attained an operational capability of 93.96% and 99.60% respectively.