Employee Health & Safety

A Culture of Caring can only be sustained through a culture of safety. Our Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Management System serves as a guide, ensuring a workplace culture that consistently addresses health and safety risks while promoting best practices. Our Health and Safety Policy reflects our dedication to proactive practices, outlining our approach to standards, tasks, and responsibilities. These policies are endorsed by the Board of Directors. Adhering to our specific safety standards, we ensure compliance with national and international regulations, including OHSAS 18001, ISO 45001, and others.

 

Risk Management and Prevention of EHS Impacts

To prevent safety issues, we have adopted a proactive approach by implementing robust procedures in all our plants, covering routine and non-routine operations, labor, machinery, behavior, and process hazards. Regular risk assessments and hazard analysis are conducted across our locations to identify existing and potential hazards, including chemical, machine guarding, and ergonomic risks.

Our Quality Assurance team evaluates manufacturing chemicals and methods for safe use, while the engineering team ensures safe working environments, manufacturing facilities, and procedures for handling processes and chemicals.

Incident Reporting

We have introduced an IT-enabled portal to streamline incident reporting, offering easy access to all EHS information and escalation procedures. Our three-step approach of investigation, analysis, and prevention is employed to address safety incidents effectively. Employees are encouraged to report unsafe situations, hazardous conditions, or behaviors, and potential hazards, with our dedicated team promptly addressing complaints through formal or informal channels to ensure swift resolution.

Embedding a Safety Culture

• 100% qualified and trained medical staff is stationed on site
• Plant tie-ups with local medical service providers/doctor who are located nearby from the factory and office premises to ensure accessibility is less than two minutes
• Privacy of employees and workers is safeguarded through private consultations with records being maintained with strict confidentiality

Accelerating Workplace Safety

We commit to the highest standards of safety as we nurture a safe and healthy working environment.

• Engage and communicate our EHS expectations through regular trainings
• Periodic internal and external assessments conducted across all sites to continuously improve our EHS performance
• Designing and implementing innovative programs to protect health and safety
• Effective controls in place to account for errors
• Safety decisions driven by operational, emotional, behavioral, and other safety contextual factors

Increasing Awareness

Our employees are our frontline responders to any incident. To ensure effective mitigation and prevent emergencies, we equip them with proper training and resources. Through internal experts and external industry representatives, we conduct safety initiatives and EHS training sessions, sharing best practices.

In FY 2023-24, EHS training sessions across our four plants covered more than 2,013 employees across 21,000+ work hours. Apart from keeping them healthy and safe at work we have provided our employees with comprehensive training on road safety to ensure they reach home safely.

 

Health & Safety Performance Snapshot: FY 2023-24