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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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