Ezecom Lighthouse Charity Golf Day to Launch Golden Helmet Awards

• 31 December 2015
• Local News
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The Cambodia Chapter of the Lighthouse Club, part of a global network for construction professionals with branches in over 50 countries, is hosting a charity golf tournament in January 2015 to raise awareness for the launch of the Golden Helmet Awards for construction health and safety.

The EZECOM Lighthouse Charity Golf Day on Friday 30 January 2015 is to be hosted at Garden City Golf Club. The event has drawn a wide range of support from sponsors including EZECOM (naming sponsor) PhilipBank (Gold Sponsor) and DHL, ArTech Furniture, and Pestbusters (Bronze Sponsors). Other sponsors include Tarkett, Fletcher Aluminium, Raffles, the Sunway Hotel, the Exchange, and Angkor Beer, Cambodia Golf Today Magazine, Ultimate M&E Equipment Group Ltd , and Parrot Computers.

The tournament which is to be played in the Ambrose Format, is open to anyone who wishes to join and entry costs $US150. The entrance fee includes food and drink during the day and entry into a Lucky Draw which guarantees to provide some great prizes. All proceeds will go to the Lighthouse Club Cambodia.

“Every day there must be somebody injured at a site, and most of these accidents are preventable if companies and staff take the appropriate measures to ensure health and safety on site,” said Colin Rogers, the Lighthouse Cambodian Chapter President. “The Lighthouse Club Cambodia is a charitable institution with two principal objectives. The first is to provide assistance to those in need in the construction industry and to their dependents where a fatality has occurred. The second objective is to promote good fellowship and cooperation among members through a varied series of functions held throughout the year.

As well as providing an enjoyable day on the green, the EZECOM Lighthouse Charity Golf Day will be used to launch the inaugural Golden Helmet Awards which will be presented for the first time at the end of 2015. The Golden Helmet Awards will be presented to both companies and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to improving health and safety on worksites in Cambodia.

“We call it the ’Golf with Helmet’ which is very successful in Hong Kong and Malaysia and it will create awareness about health and safety,” explained Rogers. “The Golden Helmet Awards initiative is not a new concept,” he pointed out, “it is only a new concept here in Cambodia. We are using our position as both a charitable association and one which has extensive networks with members of the Cambodian Constructors Association and in the region to build industry support for rewarding those companies that strive to improve work conditions and reduce workplace accidents.”

A Lighthouse Club Monthly Gathering and Golf Registration will also take place on Thursday 29 January, 2015.

For more information about how to join the EZECOM Lighthouse Charity Golf Day, contact: Jim Swander on: 015 772 750 or jimswander@gmail.com

For more information on the Lighthouse Club Cambodia visit www.lighthousecambodia.org.