Safety

We aim to provide a safe workplace that is injury- free working environment for all our employees and contractor personnel. Improving our safety performance which requires a consistent and holistic approach. In an operating business like ours where there are operational hazards we actively work to continuously improve our safety performance. Ultimately, it is our aim to have no employees or contract employee injured while at work.

We believe that working safely is the responsibility of every individual who works at our sites. We ensure that there is effective involvement and open communication of all safety matters at all levels in our organization.

There was significant reduction of 64% in LTIFR over the last three years from 10.70 in FY2006 to 3.86 in FY2009 as shown in the table below

We have undertaken a number of safety initiatives; building safety culture, strengthening the culture, and audits.

Building Safety Culture

The safety improvements over the past few years have been achieved by concentrating on improving our safety systems and continuing to build and strengthen our 'safety culture'. Culture based programme, participation of employees and contractors in safety meetings, safety interaction and encouraging workers to intervene if they see an unsafe act/ unsafe conditions are part of our day to day business.

Intensive structured training

We are focusing on intensive structured training through in- house resources as well as by engaging expert agencies. 3 days structured safety training at all the smelters for the new joinees, regular employees as well as contract workmen and 5 days vocational training at all the mines are in regular practice.

Audits

We have periodically engaged consultants for assessing our performance, identifying gaps and retrofitting it. Few of them are British Safety Council - UK, Ernst & Young, Deskon Consultants, National Safety Council and Synergic Safety Engineers. Various actions taken on the audit recommendations resulted in visible improvements at our operating sites. Apart from this, group level meet for HSE professionals is organized regularly to share the best practices of each company.