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<strong>Jul</strong> - <strong>Sep</strong><br />

2017<br />

<strong>3rd</strong> Quarter<br />

NAQSH<br />

FIRST EDITION<br />

BEGINING OF NEW ERA<br />

1ABOUT NAQSH<br />

NAQSH CENTER<br />

OF ATTENTION<br />

2(Events)<br />

limited<br />

HSE<br />

4HIGHLIGHTS<br />

5INTERVIEWS<br />

PLANT<br />

7ACTIVITIES<br />

AROUND THE<br />

8WORLD<br />

EMPLOYEE<br />

9CORNER


1<br />

NAQSH<br />

BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA<br />

FFT has a rich history at the<br />

apex of the ferlizer sector<br />

in Pakistan.<br />

Admiedly, the business situaon is not what it used<br />

but FFT sll has a slew of opportunies at every corner.<br />

We have plans to restore our former glory by<br />

combining best engineering & management pracces,<br />

commitment and diversificaon.<br />

We are essenally striving towards a<br />

sustainable future under the umbrella of<br />

the group.<br />

The people of FFT, renowned for their commitment to<br />

safety and technical lore, are our most valuable<br />

resource. Thus, we have the edge to ulize these<br />

valuable resources for our beerment & the ability to<br />

bridge the gaps, where found, by aributes of sister<br />

companies.<br />

A large number of projects are currently underway for<br />

a more viable prospect of FFT site ranging from<br />

alternave gas resources, OPEX opmizaon, business<br />

diversificaon, warehouse inventory management by<br />

SPHERA and energy saving iniaves. In these uneasy<br />

mes, the will of FFT and the determinaon of its<br />

people is our might.<br />

We are confident that our<br />

perseverance will pave the way<br />

for a greener future Inshallah!!<br />

Faizan Sabir Umer Asif M. Aamir Saeed<br />

limited<br />

ABOUT NAQSH<br />

Dear Readers!<br />

Welcome to Famafert’s<br />

first ever edion of<br />

Naqsh, our quarterly<br />

newsleer.<br />

When the newsleer was<br />

proposed, we knew that<br />

the right to name it<br />

belonged to the people of<br />

FFT and thus accordingly,<br />

we asked them for their<br />

contribuons. The site in<br />

turn responded with<br />

great enthusiasm with<br />

suggesons pouring in and the name “Naqsh” proposed by<br />

our very own Salman Shafique-Lead HSE was ulmately<br />

chosen from amongst seventy suggesons of site personnel<br />

of all cadres by a panel of senior management.<br />

Taken literally, Naqsh is synonymous with footprint and<br />

embodies a legacy. As they say, when the shoe fits and in<br />

our case, it definitely does. Famafert has a long and rich<br />

history and a legacy of perseverance and prosperity which<br />

has le its footprint in the hearts and minds of all who are<br />

connected with it. This legacy enables us to come together<br />

and work for a beer and brighter future.<br />

With our newsleer, we aim to showcase and revive our<br />

legacy, that is to say our Naqsh.<br />

We hope you enjoy the fruit of our efforts and those of all<br />

the contributors!<br />

Regards, Naqsh Team<br />

NAQSH TEAM<br />

Zahid Rafique<br />

Hafsa Shahid<br />

Faizan Ahmed


NAQSH<br />

2<br />

NAQSH CENTER OF ATTENTION<br />

“Recognion is the greatest movator”-Gerard C. Eakdale.<br />

1st<br />

HSE Awards<br />

Fall’16 - Spring’17<br />

limited<br />

In keeping with this philosophy, Famafert’s first ever HSE Awards (Fall’16- Spring'17) were organized on 28` April 2017 at Site to<br />

appreciate and acknowledge remarkable achievements since the launch of PSM Revival Campaign with Mr. Abad Khan (Advisor to<br />

CEO) and Mr. Arif-ur-Rehman (CM0) as the chief guests.<br />

Mango Tango<br />

Independence Day was celebrated at FFT by decorang<br />

Admin building and organizing graceful ceremony of flag<br />

hoisng and cake cung. The main event was organized at<br />

the cafeteria which was embellished remarkably. A Quiz<br />

compeon was also held to memorialize the significance of<br />

the day with giveaways presented to all winners. The flag<br />

hoisng ceremony was also conducted with the flag,<br />

swinging peacefully in the air, reminding all of the great gi<br />

of freedom bestowed upon us.<br />

To celebrate the season of the Mango- the acclaimed King<br />

of all fruits, a mango party was arranged for all employees<br />

at site. The event, arranged in the main ground had tables<br />

loaded with the tempng Chaunsa. The appezing sweet<br />

aroma of the King-fruit increased the appete and made<br />

everybody's mouth water. And as they say, to relish the<br />

mangoes with full savour, one has to brush aside the<br />

eang-manners and that is exactly what we did.<br />

In the end a Mango-eang compeon made the event<br />

even more memorable.<br />

By: Faizan Sabir


3<br />

NAQSH<br />

Ramzan Blessings<br />

Sports Fiesta<br />

limited<br />

FG’s Iaar organized this year at Nishat Hotel in Emporium<br />

Mall, Lahore, brought together all the sister companies in<br />

celebraon of the month of Ramadan. FFT parcipated in<br />

the event wholly with presence of all cadres of the company.<br />

The event and the plaorm it provided for building and<br />

nurturing the connecon among all sister companies was<br />

hugely appreciated.<br />

Corporate Social Responsibility<br />

Women Health Camp<br />

An All ferlizer sports weekend was organized at FFL<br />

Saqidabad plant site. Famafert team parcipated with zeal<br />

and spirit. Cricket, the main event, proved the most enjoyable<br />

with nail bing performances by both teams. Ulmately, FFT<br />

and PFL carried the day with the trophy on display<br />

intermiently at the winning sites.<br />

Eye Camp for all<br />

For the welfare of our surrounding communies, Famafert has re-commenced its fortnightly Women’s health and Eye camps from<br />

December 2016. Specialist doctors from Lahore with their support staff are present at the camps and services are provided free of<br />

cost. Since December, a total of approximately 3000 people have benefited from these camps. Inshallah our community will connue<br />

to benefit from this scheme in the future as well.<br />

TCF School<br />

The TCF FamaFert Campus is near plant site, in Nurpur Virkan. Campus envelops 16 Kanal of land inially donated by FFL,<br />

along with the building infrastructure. There are 12 classrooms, educang more than 300 students. FamaFert management is<br />

connuously supporng the school, providing all kinds of building and infrastructure maintenance.<br />

By: Hafsa Shahid


NAQSH<br />

SAFETY DASHBOARD<br />

4<br />

HSE HIGHLGHTS<br />

2.47 0.13<br />

Million Safe Man hours<br />

(combined)<br />

PSM REVIVAL 2K17<br />

Process Safety Management is the core<br />

of Fama Group’s Safety standards.<br />

Thus, to develop PSM Systems to the<br />

maximum, PSM revival campaign was<br />

carried out at site. The Campaign<br />

encompassed site wide validaon tests<br />

conducted by HSE Departments for both<br />

Management and Non-Management<br />

employees in addion to the revamp<br />

and training of PSM Procedures.<br />

TRIR<br />

(combined)<br />

Supervisor at FFL as the<br />

lead trainer and FFT’s<br />

own HSE team acng as<br />

the coordinator<br />

resulng in a validated<br />

Emergency Response<br />

Team at site well-versed in handling all<br />

possible emergencies.<br />

limited<br />

increasing movaon of site employees<br />

SMIS Goes Live at FFT<br />

In August 2017, FFT HSE in collaboraon<br />

with Corp. HSE and HO IT, launched<br />

SMIS i.e. Safety Management<br />

Informaon System at site. The system<br />

involves Incident Invesgaon and<br />

reporng, Weekly and Quarterly Mock<br />

Green Office Cerficaon<br />

Famafert achieved WWF’s Green<br />

Office Cerficaon in January 2017. The<br />

KPI’s selected for the Cerficaon were<br />

IMS Recerficaon<br />

In June of 2017, the third party audit for<br />

IMS Cerficaon was carried out by SGS<br />

at site resulng in Recerficaon of site<br />

on ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and<br />

OHSAS 18001:2007.Famafert achieved<br />

the disncon of being the FIRST<br />

Company in Pakistan cerfied on the<br />

revised ISO standards of 2015.<br />

IFA Cerficaon<br />

A second party audit for IFA Protect &<br />

Sustain Cerficaon was conducted in<br />

October of this year. The IFA Iniave<br />

was introduced to ensure safety,<br />

security and sustainability of our<br />

product.<br />

ERT Validaon<br />

In <strong>Sep</strong>tember of this year, FFT’s ERT<br />

structure was revamped followed by<br />

comprehensive training of ERT<br />

Members of all shi groups plus their<br />

Incident Commanders. Two sessions of<br />

two day trainings each were arranged<br />

with Mr. Rashid Mehmood, HSE<br />

paper, power and mixed waste of Admin<br />

building. Addionally, several green<br />

iniaves have been taken not only by<br />

the Green Office team but site<br />

personnel as well.<br />

Spot awards<br />

Recognion for a job well done is one of<br />

the best rewards an individual can get.<br />

At FFT, all departments decided to go<br />

beyond a simple “good job” and a pat on<br />

the back and spot awards distribuon<br />

ceremonies were iniated at site by all<br />

departments to acknowledge<br />

self-iniaves of employees in<br />

Improving site safety awareness and<br />

culture. This has gone a long way in<br />

drills, Minutes of Meengs and<br />

Management Safety Audits as its four<br />

modules. Till now, two of the four<br />

modules, IIR and MSA have been<br />

launched aer extensive training and<br />

tesng at site with the launch of the<br />

remaining two modules in the pipelines.<br />

Permit to Work Revamp<br />

To improve our PTW system a<br />

mul-disciplinary team has been<br />

working on a revamp of Famafert<br />

permit to work system to align site PTW<br />

system with that of FFL which would<br />

bring all sister companies in sync with<br />

each other. This will be a big step<br />

towards operaonal excellence and go a<br />

long way in strengthening site culture.<br />

By: Hafsa Shahid


5<br />

NAQSH<br />

LEAVING HIS FOOTPRINTS BEHIND!<br />

An up-close look at the life & experience of Arshad Mahmood<br />

limited<br />

About Arshad Sb<br />

“Beta bara ho ka engineer banaga.” has<br />

been a common pronouncement<br />

amongst Pakistani families for ages<br />

andwas alsotrue in the case of Arshad Sb.<br />

Lucky for him for it was exactly what he<br />

wanted. Having been inspired by a<br />

mechanical engineer paternal uncle,<br />

Arshad Sb aspired to become a<br />

mechanical engineer even before he’d<br />

completed his matriculate and as such,<br />

eventually joined UET Lahore as a<br />

mechanical engineering student.<br />

About his Career<br />

Arshad Sb took his first step into the<br />

corporate world as a Trainee Engineer at<br />

NFC. Aer NFC, he spent two years in FFC<br />

followed by a snt at Rupali Polyester, a<br />

break in a way from a career spent ll<br />

then exclusively in the ferlizer sector.<br />

Subsequently, when the offer to work on<br />

the challenging BMR Project of Dawood<br />

Hercules came up in 1988, he accepted<br />

and this later turned into an offer for a<br />

permanent posion as Senior<br />

Maintenance Engineer with the<br />

company. Lile did he know at the me<br />

that he would build a whole career here<br />

climbing up the corporate ladder to the<br />

very top.<br />

The Site Experience in a sentence<br />

When asked to sum up his 29 year<br />

experience in one sentence, Arshad Sb<br />

very blithely answered “Ye to dosra ghar<br />

hai (This is my second home).” As he very<br />

(By: Hafsa Shahid)<br />

smoothly summed it up that you can’t<br />

have a work ethic of 7 to 7 and not end<br />

up with your workplace as your home<br />

away from home.<br />

Words to live by<br />

This queson stood out because Arshad<br />

Sb answered instantly without even the<br />

least bit of hesitaon that his moo<br />

throughout had been work, work and<br />

more work because “If you put in the<br />

work, put in the time, put in the effort,<br />

then you’ll reap the reward”.<br />

Advice to all Beginners out there<br />

Do every job with the utmost<br />

professionalism and dedicaon,<br />

regardless of its significance. Be true to<br />

your work and it will be recognized. And<br />

most importantly, NEVER give up and<br />

always just keep moving forward!<br />

Plans For Rerement<br />

Having never had many opportunies to<br />

travel for pleasure, Arshad Sb now plans<br />

to go for Umrah to accomplish his<br />

long-held desire to fulfill his religious<br />

obligaons.<br />

Also, having rered from his second<br />

home a.k.a the plant, he plans to take full<br />

advantage of the opportunity and devote<br />

the maximum effort to spending me<br />

with his family.<br />

FFT In the next five years<br />

The site has been through a couple of<br />

very tough years due to gas curtailment<br />

which has led to a breakdown in site<br />

morale but it is especially important to<br />

remember that “Tough times don’t last<br />

but tough people do”.<br />

It is his firm belief that the new<br />

management will take all possible steps<br />

to resolve the issues and plant will<br />

become operaonal as well as<br />

sustainable once again. The new team<br />

has a vast exposure and an out of the box<br />

approach and thus will do all it takes and<br />

Inshallah Famafert will touch the skies<br />

as it fulfills its potenal.


6<br />

NAQSH<br />

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE<br />

A one on one iwth Asghar Naveed<br />

limited<br />

1. What inspired you to become an<br />

engineer?<br />

Ha-ha! That eternal queson. Well, as<br />

long as I can remember mathemacs and<br />

problem solving have always been my<br />

key strongholds. Engineers are esteemed<br />

professionals in their own right. Also I<br />

always had the passion for beerment of<br />

my country. So combine these factors<br />

plus an analycal aptude made me<br />

realize that I was desned to be an<br />

engineer.<br />

2.Tell us a bit about your career<br />

porolio?<br />

The only words that come to my mind to<br />

culminate 22 years of experience are<br />

urge and perseverance. I started my<br />

career as a process engineer from FFC,<br />

also had exposure of oil refinery for a<br />

couple of years. Then I joined Engro<br />

where diverse oppurtunies enabled me<br />

to develope myself both personally and<br />

professionally. Aerwards I joined<br />

Fama where I had a chance to work on<br />

all ferlizer plants. But it is sll a<br />

connuous learning process. Challenges<br />

are there which keep me excited and<br />

movated.<br />

3.What have been your career<br />

ambions?<br />

I believe in leaving behind a legacy that is<br />

recollected in a respectable manner.<br />

People are reminisced by their qualies<br />

and propensity. I want to conclude my<br />

career in such a way that I am ruminated<br />

as an upright person both professionally<br />

and personally.<br />

4.What are your hobbies?<br />

Listening to all types of good music,<br />

quality poetry, am also an avid reader of<br />

human psychology and travelling. I rarely<br />

write poetry as well.<br />

5.What do you feel are the qualies<br />

needed to excel in a professional<br />

environment?<br />

Passion and a posive atude is the key<br />

to success in every walk of life.<br />

Technically you can manage but always<br />

keeping a steady head, self-improvement<br />

and adaptability can help you achieve<br />

wonders.<br />

6.What you look most forward to while<br />

working with an individual?<br />

A posive mindset and urge to prove<br />

yourself are some of the prized qualies I<br />

seek in a person.<br />

7.What do you see in Famafert?<br />

FFT has a lot of potenal. I see a whole<br />

bunch of opportunies here for<br />

everyone. The challenges here are a solid<br />

ground for anyone who has something to<br />

show, I personally am very excited for<br />

this site.<br />

8.What message you would like to give<br />

the people of Famafert?<br />

I would say that the you people are some<br />

of the best in class when it comes to the<br />

task at hand. I know these people have<br />

the will in them to go beyond. Our legacy<br />

is the testament to this monument we<br />

call FamaFert.<br />

9.How does it feel to be plant manager of<br />

a ferlizer plant?<br />

I am extremely charged and movated<br />

and eagerly working to prove my<br />

effecveness and to payback trust of the<br />

Organizaon in terms of projects<br />

currently me and my team are working<br />

on.<br />

10.Tell us a bit about your personal life?<br />

I am typically a family oriented person. I<br />

love to spend me with my kids and<br />

family. I am very accessible and friendly<br />

to everyone. Personally I feel that I am a<br />

devoted individual to my profession and<br />

family and have managed to keep<br />

discipline in this regard.<br />

(By: Faizan Ahmed)


7<br />

NAQSH<br />

PLANT ACTIVITIES<br />

limited<br />

Cost Opmizaon<br />

We know that at FFT every cubic foot of<br />

gas counts, so to aid in plant economics<br />

FFT team has taken the iniave to<br />

opmize electricity consumpon at site.<br />

FFT uses 2 natural gas rental generators<br />

for electricity generaon when not<br />

operaonal. The opmizaon exercise has<br />

reduced power consumpon by 0.3 MW<br />

and has saved 10 MPKR per annum in<br />

fiscal savings. This shows that even in<br />

tough mes, FFT strives to aim for the sky.<br />

Our primary reforme had been performing<br />

exceponally well in the past. In recent<br />

shutdown opportunity was realized to<br />

further enhance its producvity by<br />

cleaning its process coils with dry CO2<br />

blasng. The cleaning has resulted in<br />

immaculate tube condion without any<br />

damage. Its enliven benefits will be<br />

realized when plant becomes operaonal<br />

InshAllah.<br />

PMS<br />

The process of aligning our HR policies<br />

with respect to a performance based<br />

orientaon began in 2016. So the<br />

performance management system was<br />

revamped. FG HR policies & systems were<br />

implemented and in 2016 we followed the<br />

same PMS but it was not managed<br />

digitally. However it was agreed that in<br />

future oracle Performance Management<br />

System will be executed. At start of the<br />

year, employee’s basic informaon was<br />

incorporated in the system along-with<br />

complete hierarchy. Subsequent to the<br />

successful test run and training session in<br />

mid-<strong>Jul</strong>y, PMS was launched with same<br />

melines as applicable to the other<br />

business.<br />

In-house Fabricaon<br />

As with process plants, we all know that<br />

mechanical parts are the key to plant<br />

integrity, safety and smooth operaon.<br />

Mechanical parts manufactured by OEM’s<br />

cost a premium both in terms of monetary<br />

value and me.<br />

FFT site team has understood this noon<br />

with firm lucidity in mind and has iniated<br />

local fabricaon of mechanical parts by<br />

training site personnel thus revitalizing<br />

the learning spirit and abeng to lessen<br />

expenditure.<br />

Reformer Efficiency<br />

Ammonia plant is the heart of a urea<br />

ferlizer manufacturing facility and rightly<br />

so it needs to be on the cung edge when<br />

it comes to energy efficiency and<br />

operaonal excellence. The core of the<br />

ammonia plant is the primary reformer.<br />

Launch of Sphera<br />

Warehouse at any facility is vital for its<br />

connual operaon. Maintaining spares<br />

and material in prisne condion and<br />

opmum quanes is not an easy job. Too<br />

much or too less can both be detrimental.<br />

A project was iniated to help alleviate<br />

this maer by standardizing inventory for<br />

all 3 sister plants which will opmize<br />

necessary material quanes required<br />

and cost incurred. Thus “Sphera” was<br />

envisaged. Currently this project is in the<br />

development phase and will bear fruit in<br />

days to come.<br />

Harvest Yield<br />

In 2017, rice crop was planted over 80<br />

acres of agricultural land of the company<br />

with its harvesng acvies achieving<br />

compleon in November. The crop yield<br />

was almost 120,000 kgs resulng in a net<br />

value of Rs. 3.7 million for the company.<br />

Industry Relaons<br />

Relaons between Famafert<br />

management and union have always been<br />

exemplary throughout the history of the<br />

Company. No worker’s strike, lockout or<br />

go-slow atude ever occured during this<br />

period. A total of 23 selements have<br />

been negoated between CBA and the<br />

Management in a peaceful and amicable<br />

manner. The 2<strong>3rd</strong> Selement was finalized<br />

with the CBA in <strong>Sep</strong>tember-2017 whereby<br />

emoluments of the non-management<br />

staff were significantly increased.


8<br />

NAQSH<br />

AROUND THE WORLD<br />

“The mountains are calling & I must go.”- John Muir<br />

limited<br />

INTO THE HIDDEN PEARL OF KUMRAT VALLEY<br />

Traveller-Tarqi Maqbool (P-697)<br />

Kumrat is one of Pakistan's most beauful valleys in<br />

Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with lush<br />

green pastures along the gushing black and green<br />

water of Panjkora river, snow clad mountains and<br />

dense forests. This valley ll recently was under the<br />

control of Taliban. As part of a travel group, "The<br />

Adventurers", I travelled to kumrat to discover its<br />

hidden beauty. With "Jandrai", a small town-as a<br />

pit-stop towards "Jahaz Banda" which is nestled<br />

among magnificent Hindukush range surrounded by<br />

majesc beauty at 3100 meters altude and<br />

enroute the magnificent "Katora Lake" surrounded<br />

by majesc mountains, we reached Kumrat through<br />

Thal. Kumrat was a sight to behold.<br />

Our country is brimming with beauty.<br />

The landscapes and the scenery- it certainly is<br />

a master artisan’s creation brought to life.<br />

The Travel Experience; A Solo backpack tour to Turkey and USA with one week in Turkey<br />

(Istanbul & Cappadocia) and 2 weeks in USA (Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Chicago<br />

and New York). It was an out-of-the-world experience.<br />

Food: Well in Turkey the food is amazing without any worries about finding the Halal meat.<br />

I loved the Iskander Kebap which I had in Sultanahmet, Istanbul. And Turkish tea in their<br />

signature cups is amazing. While in USA there is a connuous struggle to find Halal food<br />

(except in New York where you can find street vendors serving Halal Gyros and Falalfel<br />

everywhere).<br />

Travel Tips!: Use Google! It is the best travel agent one can have. Do book your air ckets<br />

at least 6 weeks in advance, explore mulple websites (like kayak and momondo) to<br />

compare rates and find cheapest flight opons, book economical rooms through<br />

booking.com and always run these searches on incognito mode of your web browser as<br />

these sites use your search cookies to offer higher rates against the repeated searches. Use<br />

Google Travel App to download all sort of tourism informaon of any city for offline use.<br />

To the Alps!<br />

Hello Malaysia!<br />

A Glimpse of US & Turkey<br />

Traveller<br />

Salman Shafique<br />

HSE Lead<br />

Traveller<br />

Tayyab Ahmad<br />

UM Ullity<br />

I Recently went to Malaysia with family. Exquisite place it was. We stayed on two islands<br />

during our snt there. The natural beauty is wondrous to behold. We visited the buerfly<br />

park where buerflies of all imaginable colors can be found and the Crocodile farm where<br />

live crocs were bred. Sky Bridge was also a sight to behold.<br />

Traveller<br />

Sheikh Adeel Ahmad<br />

Unit Manager Process


9<br />

NAQSH<br />

EMPLOYEE CORNER<br />

Be Positive, Think Positive<br />

One common aribute of highly successful<br />

people is that they possess posivity in their<br />

nature. They think posive, focus on<br />

posives in their lives and radiate posive<br />

energy that helps others around them. As<br />

part of life, the mes go bad and good. It’s<br />

the posive thinking that gets one through<br />

in hard mes and stresses are managed.<br />

This posivity also creates a healthy and<br />

progressive environment around them and<br />

the overall negavity in the organizaon<br />

goes down. The end result is a creave<br />

atmosphere for rising out of troubled<br />

situaon and success of the organizaon.<br />

The importance of posive behaviours<br />

becomes all the more vital when the<br />

organizaon is in tough mes. The lack of<br />

posive behaviors in the system creates<br />

doubts, increases stress levels among<br />

employees and negavely affects the<br />

capabilies of the employees for troubleshoong<br />

and problem solving.<br />

“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction<br />

of positive thoughts, events and outcomes.<br />

It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary<br />

results”. – Wade Boggs<br />

As posive atude spreads among the<br />

people, negavity is also contagious and<br />

destroys the work atmosphere in terms of<br />

creavity, confidence and trust in the<br />

organizaon. One way of creang posive<br />

atude (as guided by Stephen Covey – The<br />

7 Habits of Highly Effecve People) is<br />

spending work hours in circle of influence<br />

instead of being in the circle of concern. The<br />

circle of influence is the area comprising of<br />

the issues in which one can have an<br />

influence directly while circle of concern is<br />

the one that deals with the issues which are<br />

of concern but one does not have control<br />

over these. The example of the circle of<br />

concern is non availability of gas for plant<br />

operaon; which is a major concern but on<br />

it there is lack of control. While for the<br />

issues of circle of influence includes<br />

employee’s development, review of system<br />

procedures etc that can be directly<br />

influenced by each individual.<br />

“A positive attitude gives you power over<br />

your circumstances instead of your circumstances<br />

having power over you” – Joyce<br />

Meyer<br />

Sheikh Adeel Ahmad (T-091)<br />

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Tips for your Health<br />

M. Saeed Chuhan (Murli Chuhan)<br />

If you have been diagnosed with high<br />

blood pressure, you can lower your blood<br />

pressure and reduce risk of heart diseases<br />

by making the following lifestyle changes.<br />

1-Loose Excess Fat and Watch your<br />

Waistline: Losing just 10 pounds can help<br />

reduce blood pressure. You should also<br />

keep an eye on your waistline. Men are at<br />

risk if their waist measurement is greater<br />

than 40 inches and women if greater than<br />

30 inches.<br />

2 -Exercise: Regular physical acvity, at<br />

least for 30 minutes most days of the<br />

week, can lower your blood pressure. The<br />

best types of exercise include walking,<br />

jogging, cycling, and swimming.<br />

3- Reduce Salt Intake:Even a small<br />

reducon in the Sodium in your diet can<br />

lower your blood pressure. Limit sodium<br />

to 2300 mg a day or less.<br />

4- Stop Smoking: Each cigaree you<br />

smoke increases your blood pressure for<br />

many minutes aer you finish. People<br />

who quit smoking regardless of age, have<br />

substanal increases in life expectancy.<br />

5- Eat Healthy: Eang fruits, vegetables,<br />

low fat dairy products and a diet rich in<br />

whole grains helps in controlling high<br />

blood pressure. Take Potassium because it<br />

lessens the effects of Sodium on blood<br />

pressure.<br />

Tariq Maqbool (P-496)


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#SHEMATTERS<br />

In keeping with Fama Group’s #SheMaers Iniave, We talked to Aqsa Aslam, FFT’s only female<br />

Process Engineer with 09 years of experience under her belt to find out her story.<br />

1. Did you always want to be an engineer<br />

and why?<br />

As a child growing up in a family with four<br />

sisters working as doctors, one is expected<br />

to follow the same path. Being good in<br />

academics just adds to the expectaon. This<br />

was true in my case but I had other plans.<br />

Having spent a major poron of my<br />

childhood at Guddu Thermal Power Plant<br />

witnessing my father, an electrical engineer<br />

work on really cool-sounding projects, I<br />

aspired to be an electrical engineer working<br />

(and succeeding) to solve the country’s load<br />

shedding issues (*laughs*) but ming and<br />

domicile complicaons led to me opng for<br />

Chemical Engineering at UET lhr.Now to be<br />

very honest, I am not and never was the<br />

biggest fan of Chemistry but back then, I had<br />

a vague idea about it being similar somehow<br />

to Electrical and I’d also heard it was very<br />

lucrave so I joined up, excelled through the<br />

subsequent four years and here I am.<br />

P.S : To whom it may concern : If you’re<br />

reading this, Then I love and enjoy working<br />

with Chemistry(*coughs*). All those years of<br />

comming hundreds of Organic Chem’s<br />

reacons to memory really changed my<br />

mind.<br />

2. How would you describe your experience<br />

here?<br />

As a process and now project engineer, the<br />

experience has been a double edged sword.<br />

It’s rewarding and demanding at the same<br />

me but you know what they say “Nothing<br />

The Man with the 40 year legacy: Mr. Arshad Baloch<br />

Very few people can claim to have been with a company since its very incepon. Mr. Arshad Baloch is one of those rare individuals. Having<br />

joined the company from October 4, 1974 in the first ever batch of apprences of the company, he’s the man who’s seen it all and whose<br />

commitment & legacy we would be lucky to emulate.<br />

limited<br />

worth having ever comes easy”. The whole<br />

experience has been a series of deadlines<br />

and target dates but I’m blessed with a great<br />

team and together I believe we’ll face all<br />

challenges set in our path as we have in the<br />

past.<br />

3.What would you say is your inspiraon?<br />

For me, it’s always been my parents who’ve<br />

been my rock and my inspiraon. Their<br />

example has taught me that there is truly no<br />

limit to what we as individuals can<br />

accomplish once we put our mind and also<br />

our backs to it.<br />

4. Your opinion regarding the iniave of<br />

#SheMaers?<br />

I think it’s great that Fama Group is acvely<br />

recognizing the contribuon of its female<br />

employees and working to create a more<br />

inclusive workplace environment. It’s a great<br />

plaorm for us because there are very few<br />

female engineers at sites albeit probably<br />

more than there used to be. So a program<br />

recognizing, encouraging and overall<br />

inspiring women through the success stories<br />

of other women, well it’s just what we need.<br />

(By: Hafsa Shahid)<br />

Your Mentor:<br />

Definitely Master Shafi sahib, our senior<br />

foreman of Machinery. The skills and<br />

knowledge I have today, more than fiy<br />

percent is what I learned from him. I spent<br />

about fieen (15) years under his guidance.<br />

And he made me who I am today.<br />

Hypothecally if you were a machine in<br />

plant what would you be:<br />

I would be P402, Boiler Feed Pump; it serves<br />

the boiler with no complaints. It is most<br />

calm and stable in its own way. Never gives<br />

excuses nor lets his pride get low.<br />

Memorable moment of your career at FFT:<br />

It was 2001, when I won the lucky draw for<br />

Hajj. It was the most amazing day of my life.<br />

The Hajj draw was sponsored by the<br />

company, through which each year, 8<br />

worker and 8 management employees were<br />

financed to complete journey of Hajj<br />

Your role in the FFT family:<br />

I am very social person and take part in all<br />

kinds of social gatherings and acvies. I<br />

have planned and organized a great number<br />

of weddings in this company, though I am<br />

not very good at sports but I am always<br />

there to support and boost my team. I am<br />

also somemes referred as “Chacha Cricket”<br />

Your overall experience:<br />

This company is my whole life; it’s my<br />

second home. Each employee is a member<br />

of my family. My fellows and Colleagues<br />

here are like pearls with their lives invested<br />

in this company. With the new Management,<br />

I have full confidence that we can<br />

grow to new heights and achieve unimaginable<br />

success together and leave bright<br />

future for the generaons to come.<br />

(By: Umer Asif)


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