Management of occupational health, safety and environmental aspects in major cement plants of rajasthan (acc & ultratech.)

Management of potentialIndustrial hazards, environmental risks & occupational injuries which may cause major anatomical or physiological issues among industrial workers is a greater challenge nowadays in every Industrial operations now a-days. Traumatic occupational injuries leads to 10,000 deaths among workers annually. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has observed that an estimated 50 million work related injuries occur every year or 160000 every day. India's potential in infrastructure is vast and cement plays a vital role in the growth and development of the nation.
India is thesecond largest producer of cement in the world. The cement industry has been expanding on the back of increasing infrastructure activities and demand from housing sector over the past many years. The Indian cement industry is the second largest producer of quality cement that meets global standards. It comprises 130 large cement plants and more than 300 mini cement plants. The industry’s capacity at the end of the year 2007-08 reached 188.97 million tonnes from 166.73 million tonnes at the end of the year 2006-07.
The Indian government has ranked different states in India in terms of cement production. Rajasthan ranks leading, followed by Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Management of Industrial Safety, occupational health and environment norms is become top priority of any cement plants. It is a positive cultural element that allows other improvements in other functions.
However, as work accidents and occupational diseases have an enormous impact on the health of workers and considerable economic and social impacts. In addition, with the increasing complexity of industrial tissue and with the rapidity that the techniques develop in the big factories, risks assessment becomes a crucial and strategic answer to preserve workers health and safety on the one hand and to maintaining a qualified labor on the other hand. The Health and safety performance of the cement plants eg ACC & Ultratech as a whole is improving due to line management ownership, stringent rules & enforcement by authorities, monitoring & benchmarking, social, economic reasons, heavy penalty for breach & fear of losing brand image. The good & prestigious cement companies like ACC (Lafarge-Holcim MNC) & Ultratech have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve good EHS culture by visible felt leadership & ownership. However still there is room for further improvement in performance of occupational health, safety & environment compliance. There is a particular need for these cement plant to encourage and help those plants that are significantly under-achieving to raise their EHS standards to ensure a sustainable industry that meets social and employment expectations. In addition, with the permanent evolution of work, even its risks, it becomes increasingly insufficient to establish occupational health & safety rules of, relying solely upon standards and regulations to comply, but move to awareness, information, training and motivation of employees as well as business partners on the role of health and safety at work, steps previously required for the implementation of a prevention, even to a mitigation measures relevant and effective. That allows to define a general policy of prevention and to bring to successful management of industrial risk, occupational illness & environmental norms within the entity.
Hence, it has become essential to give employees ,business partners & all stake holders a real sense of safety, occupational health & environment that will predict and act in very affective way; objective of this work.