HKQAA Symposium is key annual event organized by Hong Kong
Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) on 18th May 2017. Hong Kong Society for
Quality (HKSQ) is one of supporting organizations since 2006. The symposium’s frame in 2017 was “Governance, Risk and Compliance Management in the Era of Sustainability” and I summarized it below for sharing. Before the symposium, I took a photo with HKQAA friends in front of the
symposium banner.
(Left: Ms.
Bess Choi (Asst. Director, Corporate Finance), Ir. Wilman Chan, Dr. Micheal Lam (CEO), I, Mr. P.C. Chan (Chief Operating Officer) and Mr. Bryan Peng (Assistant
Director))
(Left: Ms.
Meico Cheong (Business Manager), Mr. Edwin CF Lau (Executive Director, The
Green Earth), I and Mr. Bryan Peng)
(Left: Ir.
Wilman Chan, I, Mr. Bryan Peng and Mr. Calvin Luk (Account Executive))
(Left: Mr. Jacky Yeung and I)
Morning
Session
In the
beginning, Ir. C.S. Ho (Deputy Chairman, HKQAA) gave a welcome speech. He said to change Sustainability to Opportunity.
Then he briefed HKQAA new schemes included Hong Kong Registration – Food Waste
Recycling.
Mr Wong
Kam-sing (JP, Secretary for the Environment) was the officiating guest and gave
a speech about government’s environmental policy which was one of four key
areas in CE policy address. He also
mentioned government would fully support the food waste recycling. During food waste recycling, it could be
turned into renewal energy and reduced the carbon footprint. Finally, he
thanked HKQAA different recognition scheme especially on Hong Kong Registration
– Food Waste Recycling. Finaly, he showed the leaflet of “Food Wise Hong Kong”
for public education and promotion.
Then the
launch of Food Waste Recycling scheme ceremony was performed.
(Left: Ir.
C.S. Ho (Deputy Chairman, HKQAA), Mr Wong Kam-sing (JP, Secretary for the
Environment) and Dr. Michael Lam (CEO, HKQAA))
The
first speaker was Mrs Vicki Kwok (Deputy Director of Environmental Protection,
EPD, Government of HKSAR) and her presentation topic entitled “Food Waste
Recycling: Sustainable Management of Resources”. Firstly, she introduced the food waste
distribution in Hong Kong in 2015. There
were 10,159 tonnes waste per day and food waste was about 33% (~3,380 tonnes
per day). EPD performed food waste
management since 2010 through Food Waste Recycling Partnership Scheme included
Restaurants, Hotels, Markets, Food Factories, Shopping Malls and Property
Management companies, etc.
Over 270 organizations had participated in the scheme and about 2,500 tonnes of food was has been collected and recycled up to April 2017. Moreover, there were 31 housing estates joined the scheme and about 1,110 tonnes of food waste turned into 220 tonnes of compost per year from July 2011 to April 2017.
Then Mrs.
Kwok stated a new chapter on Food Waste Management. Their four steps plan was “Reduction at
Source”, “Reuse & Donation”, “Recyclable Collection” and “Waste to Energy”
from 2014 to 2022. The target was set
from 3600 tonnes per day reduced to 2,100 tonnes per day (-40%) from 2011 to
2022. Moreover, EPD would establish Organic
Resource Recovery Centres (ORRCs) and the first one would be commissioning in
2017 (ORRC-1).
ORRC-1
supported commercial and industrial sectors’ food wastes and government would
provide free technical support, free training, establish the code of practices
and strengthen the connections. The ORRC-2 would be commissioning in 2021 and
ORRC-3 was under feasibility study in 2017.
The Food waste recycling facilities was demonstrated in the following
table. Finally, she mentioned to partner
with HKQAA to raise industry standard.
Ms. Yuan
Yuan (Head of GRI Regional Hub China, Global Reporting Initiative) was the
second speaker and her presentation topic was "Strengthen Risk and
Compliance Management with the New Sustainability Reporting Standard". In the beginning, she briefed the background
on GRI and sustainability reporting that let their stakeholders to understand
organization contributions towards the goal of sustainable development. GRI was the most widely-adopted
sustainability reporting guidelines.
The set
of GRI Standards included 3 universal Standards and 33 topic-specifi Standards
organized into Economic, Environmental and Social series. There were two basic approaches that (1)
Preparing a report in accordance with the Standards and (2) Using selected GRI
Standards. Finally, she mentioned the standard
effective date on 1 July 2018. At the
end, she shared CLP case study about risk management in GRI Standards.
The
third speaker was Ms. Brenda Kwok (Chief Legal Counsel, Privacy Commissioner
for Personal Data, Hong Kong) and her topic named "Stay Ahead of the
Privacy Management Trends: Local and International Perspectives". She firstly
briefed the Hong Kong Data Protection Law included the Personal Data (Privacy)
Ordinance. And then she played the video
called “Think Privacy! Be Smart Online”.
Ms. Kwok
quoted Mr. Stephen Lau (Former Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data) statement
that “Data breach is no longer a question of IF, but a question of WHEN…” She
said a need of paradigm shift from Compliance to Accountability. She also introduced a guideline named “Major
Organisations Pledge to Implement Privacy Management Programme (PMP) to Protect
Personal Data Privacy” which issued on 18 Feb 2014. Lastly she showed the
fundamental principles and mentioned the three top-down management
commitments.
During
Tea break, I met my CityU students and took a photo for memory.
(Left: Ms.
Sindy Lai (Shiu Wing Steel Limited), Ms. Chun Ka Po (Hip Hing Engineering Co.,
Ltd.) and I)The forth speaker was Dr. Calvin Lee Kwan (General Manager – Sustainability, Link Asset Management Limited) and his presentation entitled "Green Financing: Create Value through Sustainable Properties". Firstly, he said Hong Kong seems losing the direction that we don’t know where we going. Then he proposed that Green Finance is one of directions in Hong Kong.
After
that he mentioned the Link Green Bond Framework and should meet the following
eligibility criteria:
i)
Existing or new buidlings that expect to receive certification
ii)
Energy efficiency
iii)
Project such as that reduce waste to landfill, improve water efficiency,
promote adoption of low carbon transportation including electric vehicles, and
improve climate change resilience.
Lastly,
he introduced the green map that their building was at location 24 of Kowloon East.
The
fifth speaker was Mr. Joseph Law (Senior Director – Planning & Development,
CLP Power Hong Kong Limited) and his presentation topic named “Implementing
Corporate Governance Culture is Key”. In
the beginning, Mr. Law quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson statement that “Culture is
one thing and varnish is another.”
Then Mr.
Law briefed CLP culture included “Cares for People”, “Cares for Community”, “Cares
for Environment”, “Cares about Performance”, Respects Laws and Standards” and “Values
Innovation and Knowledge”. He also
mentioned that they had strong safety culture.
After
that he introduced the value in CLP as shown in the following diagram that
could reinforce the right corporate culture.
Lastly, he quoted Alan Greenspan statement as conclusion for beyond
compliance that “It is hard to overstate the importance of reputation in a
market economy… Rules cannot substitute for character.”
The last
speaker of morning session was Dr. Nigel Croft (Chairman, ISO Technical
Subcommittee on Quality Systems (ISO/TC176/SC2) and his topic entitled "The
Role of ISO Standards in Governance, Risk and Compliance Management for Today’s
Business". Firstly, Nigel explained
the rationale for ISO 19600 (Compliance management systems – Guidelines) that
an organization’s approach to compliance is ideally shaped by the leadership
applying core values and generally accepted corporate governance, ethical and
community standards. He also stated
compliance requirements were mandatory but compliance commitments were
voluntary.
Then Dr.
Nigel Croft mentioned new ISO Standard on Resilience named ISO 22316:2017 “Organizational
resilience – Principles and attributes” included many topics such as: QMS, Risk
management, Asset management, Stakeholder and Collaboration management,
Reputation management, EMS, OHSAS, Business Continuity, ICT continuity, Cyber
security, Change management, ISMS, Crisis management, etc.
Finally, Dr. Nigel Croft concluded that ISO standards were able to make many contributions to Governance, Risk and Compliance Management. For ISO 19600, it provided guidance on compliance on mandatory (legel) requirements and/or voluntary commitments; moreover, it was totally aligned with ISO 9001 & ISO 14001, etc. For new ISO 22316, it promoted organization resilience and its outcome was good business practice and effectively managing risk.
Panel Discussion was performed at the end
of Morning Session and
the guest moderator was Dr. Nigel Croft (ISO Technical Subcommittee on
Quality Systems (ISO/TC176/SC2)).
During the discussion, Nigel quoted Dr. W. Edwards Deming saying that "It
is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
Previous HKQAA Symposium:
2016: HKQAA
Symposium – Startups Registration Scheme Kicks off - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/05/hkqaa-symposium-startups-registration.html
2014: HKQAA
25th Anniversary Forum & Celebration Cocktail Reception - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/11/hkqaa-25th-anniversary-forum.html
2010:
Part 1 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2010/11/hkqaa-symposium-2010-sustainability.html ;
2010: Part
2 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2010/11/hkqaa-symposium-2010-sustainability_26.html
Reference:
www.hksq.org
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