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Commercial and industry security specialists, Certis Lanka Group who offer a myriad of different services and who are the premier service provider in loss prevention services in Sri Lanka, celebrated their 40th anniversary and awards night at a glamorous awards ceremony held at The Hilton Hotel on Friday 23 June with President Maithripala Sirisena gracing the occasion as the Chief Guest. The Guest of Honour at the event was State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardena.
Certis Lanka is a joint venture with Certis International of Singapore, a wholly owned company of Temasek Holdings, and the private investment arm of the Government of Singapore. Certis Lanka has been operating as an independent entity providing security services in Sri Lanka for the past 40 years.
The company felicitated the best performers across the group during the past year. In addition to rewarding its employees, Certis Lanka Group awarded scholarships to 30 children of its employees, who had performed well at the GCE O/L and GCE A/L Examinations, to further their academic aspirations.
The year 2016 was declared as the ‘Year of Human Resource Development’ under the tagline of ‘Shaping People for the Future’. Certis Lanka organised many activities for its human capital development.
A ‘Medical & Distress Fund For Its Employees’ was launched to help the needy. A series of medical and eye camps were conducted covering the entire island with the participation of thousands of its employees. Free spectacles were distributed to employees after an extensive eye checks done by reputed eye specialists.
Over the past four decades, Certis Lanka has concentrated their focus on providing their customers with comprehensive, state of the art security solutions. Today they set the standard for loss prevention services in Sri Lanka with an island wide branch network, located in main cities of the island. Certis Lanka Group has been into transportation of cash and valuables, electronic security systems, courier services and home nursing through its subsidiary companies.
Certis Lanka has put quality, environmental and energy management systems at the heart of our business to achieve sustainable success and meet the expectations and needs of their customers, amongst other benefits by obtaining the following ISO certifications:
Certis Lanka is also a recipient of many international awards, presented for immeasurable contribution to the business world, for high standing professionalism demonstrated by prestigious performance. Certis Lanka commenced its business with a humble beginning. The company today boasts of a gigantic workforce of over 9,000 personnel and operates island wide serving its customers with the state of the art technology and operational expertise from Certis International in Singapore.
Certis Lanka has not failed in its responsibility towards the society and has carried out several corporate social responsibility projects such as donations to flood victims, elders homes and numerous other projects to uplift the standards of needy and destitute brethren of our country.
The 40th anniversary celebrations and awards ceremony was another important event of the Certis Lanka Group whose team is dedicated in the pursuit of continual improvement, maintaining high standards of quality by application of QMS principles and at the same time are extremely mindful of the aspirations of its employees.
Certis Lanka looks forward to their quest, to be constantly ‘securing your world’.
