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HAPPENINGS CI 10
CIVIL SERVICE CLUB VIL SERVICE CLUB

WHY OSHD DO

WHAT THEY DO!

Teamwork is promoted within the Ministry of by chance. It signifed solidarity and working as The aim of this event is to promote team bonding
Manpower, Occupational Safety and Health a single unit. They charged forth as a cohesive and to Mohammad Ismadi, it did just that.
Division (OSHD). This is crucially significant group with a common goal: To be the champion Particularly, it was during the game Straw
in OSHD where six departments with various of the inaugural OSHD Tele-match. Structure that he saw the closeness of his
outfts exist for the sole purpose of reducing team. Everyone chipped in and gave input. Some
workplace injuries and fatalities. Working 350 OSHD Staff took off to battle against each helped to build the foundation while others
together towards their common goal of Vision other as the Guest-of-Honour, OSHD Divisional worked on the body. Even those who were not
Zero provides a sense of purpose that is both Director Mr Ho Siong Hin (DOSH) started in the action stood together to block out the
inspiring and fulflling. From this stems a part of the race. incoming wind.
their engagement strategy: Promoting Teamwork
and One Identity. To achieve this, the division 10 Tasks, One mind Setting an Example
holds a myriad of events and one such event is The game stations were set up at different areas As stated by Mr Ho, more fondly known as DOSH,
the inaugural OSHD Tele-match. of CSCs Bukit Batok clubhouse and teams had It is through events like these that our staff
to navigate their way around the premise. Once get to understand one another better. They no
Held on 4 October 2013, this years tele-match, at the station, they had to complete a task. For longer just communicate via emails. They get to
named Our Marvellous Games, is organised by Boat Race, the teams had to make a beeline for create memories and have a common event to
CSC. 350 OSHD staff took off to battle against the clubhouses swimming pool. There, selected talk about.
one another as the Guest-of-Honour, OSHD representatives donned on life jackets before
Divisional Director, Mr Ho Siong Hin (DOSH), getting into an infatable canoe. For frst-time One moment that would surely have OSHD
started the race. paddlers, steering the boat was diffcult. Working staff talking for many years to come was when
in tandem, with each stroke gingerly executed DOSH gamely joined participants on stage and
Game Faces On in unison, made completing the laps possible. danced to Gangnam Style! His gung-ho attitude
Prior to the event the pursuit for the ultimate earned him a peal of applause. Not only was his
team members materialised in the emergence During Turn It Over, the participants had to fip performance a highlight of the event, it also
of Team Hydra, X-Men First Class, Con-Masters, over a yellow PVC mat to unveil a congratulatory reinforced the message of coming together
Infnity, BK, Cereal Killers, Black Horse, Avengers message. An easy task, until they heard the twist: as one.
and the Last Minute Team. It was evident They could not let their feet touch the foor. This
right from the start that Con-Masters, with all proved to be a head scratcher. Very soon, they Though the OSHD staff were tired after an
members clad in blue, came to win. Having all were on all fours, trying ways to prop themselves afternoon of running around, their spirits were
the members show up in blue, according to up using the strength of their arms. elevated and the joy and laughter continued even
their Team Leader, Mohammad Ismadi, was not after the event had ended.