Prime Minister Quality Award: Our First Attempt

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PETRONAS Ammonia Sdn Bhd or in short PASB has been certified to ISO 9001:2002 in 2003. The certification marked another milestone of its journey towards achieving a world class standard. Started humbly with its Employee Suggestion Scheme (ESS) one year after moving to its operation phase mid 2000, PASB has never looked back but in fact striving forward making continous improvement effort to achieve its goal. Subsequently, 5S was introduced in 2002 which proved sincere Management commitment to develop not only system but to nurture right mindset and quality culture. The 5S was perceived as the fundamental of quality philosophy which complimented the PETRONAS Quality Culture Process (QCP) introduced early 2001. To sustain the momentum of our Quality Journey and with the aim to develop quality mindset, PASB decided to participate in a very prestigious award - the Prime Minister Qaulity Award (PMQA) in 2005. Despite its baby phase operated by young workforce, PASB braved herself to compete with well establised multinationals and reputable organizations in this tough competition for only one reason - the people development. PASB were represented by a team of five lead by Saiful, Ahmad Sharifuddin, Nazrul, Nursita and Kamarul on the historic 8th of August 2005 afternoon, during their first attempt, 2nd screening process of the PMQA. The one year effort made by PASB was finally recognised as one of the top 5 finalist. Nevertheless, we somehow or rather had achieved our objective to boost up our momentum and thanks to all.

A week after later, we were invited to the award giving ceremony by the Prime Minister of Malaysia YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Hj Ahmad Badawy at the Palace of Golden Horses. PASB was represented by the Management team, PASB PMQA Taskforce and the Union members.