THE RAMCO CEMENTS LTD.

JAYANTHIPURAM

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 RAMCO GROUP

Cement Wind Farms

Ready Mix Concrete
Cement Fiber Products
Cotton and Synthetic Yarn
Software Systems
Shri P.A.C. Ramasamy Raja
Founder Total Employees : 15,000
(1894 - 1962 )
Research & Development
Dry Mortar Plants
Cotton Textiles
Surgical.
Shri.P.R.Ramasubrahmaneya
Turnover : Rs. 6,700 crores Rajha
Chairman & Managing Director

The Ramco Cements Ltd., (formerly Madras Cements Ltd.)

Main Plants :
1. RR Nagar Plant near Virudhunagar, TN (2.0MTPA) (Established in 1959)
2. KSR Nagar Plant, Jaggaiahpeta, Andhra Pradesh (3.65 MTPA) (Estd. in1986),
Turnover-662 crores , No. of Employees- 431
3. Alathiyur near Vridhachalam, Tamil Nadu (3.0 MTPA) (Established in 2002)
4. Mathod near Chitradurga, Karnataka (0.3 MTPA) (in Operation since 2000)

5. Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu (5.5 MTPA) (Established in 2009).

Cement Grinding Units :

Packing Units :
1. Kattuputtur (0.75MTPA) 2. Valapadi (2.0 MTPA) 1. Nagercoil,TN
3. Kolaghat (1.0 MTPA) 4. Vizag (0.95 MTPA)
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Management System Certificates
 H&S organogram:

UNIT HEAD

ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD WORKS HEAD

(SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN)

MEDICAL OFFICER SAFETY OFFICER

PARAMEDICS LAB SAFETY SAFETY

TECHNICIAN COMMITTEE MENTORS
MEMBERS

CONTRACTOR
SAFETY OFFICERS
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 Safety Committee Members for the Year 2014 – 2016:

 S C Chairman -Works - Head

 S C Secretary -Safety - Head
 Staff & Officers - 14 Members
 Workmen - 14 Members
 Contract Workmen – 4 Members
 Safety Committee awards are presented to Safety
Committee members for following categories;
 Highest attendance percentage.
 Highest no. of points referred by a member.

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 SAFETY COMMITTEE MENTORS
 To educate the co-worker, regarding the safety practice
associated with the work.
 To inform the unsafe activities & unsafe condition to the
section – in charges & safety dept.
 To co-ordinate the safety related function.
 Safety Committee Mentors for the Year 2014 – 2016:
 Staff - 06 Members
 Company workmen - 25 Members
 Contract workmen - 05 Members
 First Aiders & Fire Fighters:
 First Aiders - 72 Members
 Fire Fighters - 45 Members
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 SAFETY COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
 To identify and suggest control measures for the
hazards in their area / department.
 To suggest changes / modifications, if any, to ensure
safe working conditions.
 To identify the requirement of any specific personal
protective equipment.
 Review of corrective and preventive actions regarding
the accidents / incidents in the concerned
departments.
 To carry out Internal Safety Audits by Safety
Committee Members (7 Teams) once in a month. To
submit a report on periodical basis on the above
matters to the Top Management.
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 SAFETY COMMITTEE POINTS STATISTICS
600 2010 - 2016
494 494
500 482 482

431
411
400

300

200

100

0
2010-12 2012-14 2014-16

Raised Completed
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Format
 Best Practices
on
Safety

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 SAFETY FLAG HOISTING,
SAFETY PLEDGE & SLOGAN

 Everyday, Safety Pledge and Slogan

by Company employees along with
contract employees.

 Every Monday, Safety Flag hoisting

and 5 minutes Safety Talk by one
of the Company or Contract
employees.

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 5 – MINUTES SAFETY TALK
• 5–Minutes Safety Talk is
being conducting on each
and everyday at all sections
of plant premises.
• Creating awareness on the
particular risky job before
going to do that work.

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 HELMET COLOUR CODING SYSTEM
Company Workmen
Electrician

Visitor

Staff and Officers

Contract Workmen
Safety Members &
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Mentors.
 IMPLEMENTATION OF REFLECTIVE JACKETS
 In view of better visibility at the place like tunnel, conveyor
galleries and also during poor visibilities due to climatic
conditions, we have issued safety reflective jackets for our
entire company employees, contract workmen, visitors, etc.

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 SAFETY SHOES
 Ensuring to wear safety shoe and Helmet for all
company employees, contract workers (Men &
Women) and apprentices.
In this regards,
 Process dept. - High Ankle Heat Resistant shoe
 Electrical &
Instrumentation - Electrical Shock Proof shoe
 Others - High Ankle General Safety shoe

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 LOTO SYSTEM
 All electrically connected equipments to ensure that they are properly
isolated for hazardous or potentially hazardous electrical energy sources
during servicing and or maintenance and properly protect against re-
energization.

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 INJURY -FREE MAN-HOURS DISPLAY BOARD
Injury-free Man-hours board displayed near prayer assembly
point. Everyday Injury-free Man-hours are updated.

OUR SAFETY RECORD

INJURY FREE WORKING

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 WORK PERMIT SYSTEM
 Work Permit System is being followed while carrying the
following hazardous work activities in a safe manner:
 Hot work (Grinding, welding, gas cutting & brazing)
 Work at height
 Confined space entry
 Electrical works
 Jam clearance
 Belt conveyors
 VRM/VRPM mill entry
 ESP maintenance and Inspection
 Excavation
 Barrel cutting
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 EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS AND
RESPONSE
 Totally in our plant, 20 areas are identified as potential
emergency areas like HSD Storage, HFO Storage, Coal
Storage, Gas Cylinders Storage, Magazines, etc.

 We are having a well equipped OHC at our premises to take

care of any injuries.
 First Aid will be given to the injured person and based on his
condition he will be shifted to Jaggayyapet Town
Hospital/Vijayawada Hospitals through our company AC
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Ambulance.
 SAFETY CONTROL MEASURES PROVIDED:

 The flammable storage areas are fenced at specified

safe distance.
 300 Nos. of suitable fire extinguishers and fire buckets
are provided near these storage areas.
 Fire hydrant lines are provided near the storages.
 DSPA (Dry Sprinkler Powder Aerosol) is installed in
Fine Coal Bin to control the fire, once temp reaches
90OC.
 Smoke detectors are installed at All Buildings and
Underground Cable tunnels & alarms will be displayed
at CCR for continuous monitoring.
 CCTVs are installed at all the Coal hoppers top & Coal
Mill Bag house top for continuous monitoring.
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 EMERGENCY MITIGATING EQUIPMENTS
SL No. EQUIPMENTS Nos.

1 Fire Tender 01

2 No. of Fire Extinguishers 300

3 No. of Fire Hydrants points 121

4 Smoke Detectors 427

5 Self Contained Breathing Apparatus 04

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 EMERGENCY MITIGATING EQUIPMENTS
SL No. EQUIPMENTS Nos.

6 Fire portable trolley mounted pump 01

7 Emergency assembly point 06

8 Emergency siren 04

9 First Aid Boxes 32

10 Surveillance Cameras 122

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 MOCK DRILLS
Major Mock Drills are conducted
yearly once at Plant & Mines.
Minor Mock Drills yearly thrice at
plant. After completion of Mock
drill, observer’s comments are
discussed and implemented.

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 Mock Drills

Year Major Minor

2014-15 1+1 3

2015-16 1+1 3

Observation report for Major Mock drill

23.05.2014

11.02.2015

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 SAFETY PPE EXHIBITION ROOM

To inculcate safety awareness / PPE to the new comers and

visitors, we have a Safety PPE Exhibition Room.

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 SAFETY SUGGESTION BOX
The objectives of the Suggestion Scheme are:
To encourage innovations, creativity and value addition by
individual employees for overall improvement.
To improve safety culture, quality, productivity, profitability
and service through employee participation.

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 ROAD SAFETY WEEK CELEBRATIONS
• Created Road Safety Awareness among the Jaggaiahpet
people and also conducted Road Safety Campaign near JPT
bus stand and Toll Gate on National Highway, 02.01.2016.

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 45th - NATIONAL SAFETY WEEK CELEBRATION
DETAILS
 Safety Message by Sri P B Gopalakrishna, President
(Mfg.) and all Div. Heads on 04.03.2016

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 SAFETY PROCESSION
Organized Safety Procession with
Safety Slogans speaking out with
loudspeaker by our Div.
Heads, All HODs, Safety
Committee Members & Mentors
along with all employees and
contract workmen inside the
factory premises on 04.03.2015

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 PPE EXHIBITION INAUGURATION
On the eve of
NSW, Inauguration of Safety
Exhibition by our Unit Head.

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 PPE EXHIBITION EVALUATION
• PPE Exhibition evaluated by
Dy. Chief Inspector of
Factories and Inspector of
Factories Vijayawada.

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 VALEDICTORY FUNCTION HIGHLIGHTS
Sri MOHANA RAO, Dy. Chief Inspector of
Factories, Vijayawada is invited as Chief Guest for the
valedictory function on 10.03.2015 and delivered
valuable speeches and explained the need for safety at
workplace, while travelling and other places.

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 Awards & Rewards

Sl. Awards Achieved /

2014-15 2015-16
No. Awarded by

1 Mr. Rambabu Won first prize in Won third prize in

telugu Slogans at English Slogans at
State level Safety State level Safety
competitions competitions

2 Mr.Sivasubramanyam Won third prize in

English Essay writing
at State level Safety
competitions

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BEST MANAGEMENT AWARD to Sri P R Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha, Chairman & Managing Director, Ramco
Cements Limited and the award is being received by Sri P B Gopala Krishna, President-Mfg., Sri M.
Chidambaram, Vice President - Admn, Sri T. Sridhar Reddy, AVP - Works and Sri E. Alwar, DGM - Personnel on the
occasion of MAY DAY on 01.05.2016.
 SAFETY PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Safety Flash Display

 For the newly joined employees and contract

workmen, safety awareness is inculcated by showing the
safety practices / appliances at Safety PPE Exhibition
Room.

 Safety News Letter sharing

 Accident case studies sharing

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 Safety arrangements & precautions taken
while carrying out following critical
activities:

i. Additive Hoppers cleaning work

ii. Cement silos cleaning

iii. Preheater Cyclones Jam removal

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 i. Additive Hoppers cleaning work

The following safety arrangements are made for Additive Hoppers cleaning
/ Jam removal work as shown in drawing.

01- Platform with handrail provided in straight portion with ladder

arrangement for the workmen to go inside the hopper and clean by
standing on the platform with safety belt arrangement.

02- Jhula with winch arrangement was made to clean in bottom area.

03- Workpermitt is taken for confined space entry.

04.Only trained employees / supervisor are engaged for this work.

05. One person is placed at hopper top to observe the cleaning work with
rope arrangement.
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 i. Additive Hoppers Safety arrangement

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 ii. Cement silos cleaning
The following safety precautions are taken for Silos cleaning:

1. Work permit is taken for confined space entry.

2. All feed equipments of Cement silo are electrically isolated .
3. Open the Silo Inspection doors – 2 Nos.
4. Focus lamp arrangement is made from Silo top.
5. Clean the loose cement from bottom bin.
6. Jhula with winch arrangement is made as shown in photo for
cleaning silo inside walls from top to bottom.
6. Safety belt and other required PPEs are used.
7. For rotation of Jhula support rope tied & for moving up and
down, winch arrangement is used.
8. Two persons are placed at Inspection doors to observe the work.
9. Only trained employee / supervisor is engaged to carryout this
work.
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 ii. Cement silos cleaning

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JHULA ARANGEMENT
 iii. Preheater Cyclones Jam removal
While Cyclone Jam
releasing work , no one is
allowed to stand opposite &
below to the cleaning area
for safe work practice.
Ensuring the all doors are
in closed condition.

Floor

Platform
Draft Point

Platform
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Thermocouple
Reasons for Cyclone Jam
1. Refractory failure there by blocking the Material flow
2. Coating formation & dislodging
3. Overheating
4. Foreign material (dispersion plates & immersion tube
segments)

Indication for Cyclone Jam

1. Cone material temp slowly decreasing
2. Cone draft also slowly decreasing
3. Next stage gas temp increasing simultaneously
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Precaution to avoid further build up
1. If the difference between gas & material temp is
>50°C, Popup alarm will appear on the CCR
monitor.
2. Simultaneously, if the cone draft comes to
zero, interlock gets activated to stop the feed
immediately so as to reduce the material built-up in
the cyclone.
Action to be taken during Cyclone Jam Releasing
1. Ensure the Vent fan in running condition.
2. Well trained & high skilled personnel are only
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3. Work Permit is raised by the concerned Section In-
charge.
4. No man power is allowed below the rest of the floors.
5. Barricade is arranged at the Inlet and Outlet as well as
Cooler DPC area to control movement of personnel.
6. All relevant PPE are used.
7. Jam releasing is followed from bottom to top of the
cyclone.
8. At the time of cleaning, only one door is opened & rest
are ensured in closed condition.
9. No Manhole doors allowed to open.
10. After jam clearance, all the doors are opened one by
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one to check the free passage.
 The longest accident free period (Continuous covering the
three years, assessment period 2013-2015)

From Period To Period No of Accident Free Million Man

Days Hours*
01-04-2013 13-11-2015 947 9.51

•Also we are monitoring incident -free man-hours & we achieved >1 million
thrice from 2014 to 2016.

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 HSE Trainings
Training need identification (TNI) for employees and contractors.

Training needs are identified by concerned HODs / Divisional Heads for

employees and contract workmen for the financial year concerned at
the beginning of the year.

Training matrix for Employees & Contractors.

Training matrix

Training effectiveness is measured through feedback.

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 Training Particulars.

Sl.
Trainings 2014-15 2015-16
No.
1 Internal Trainings 24 27
2 External Trainings 2 1
3 Training Participants Company 392 378
4 Training Participants Contractors 786 816
5 Total Training Hours 1995 2107
6 Training Hr. individual per employee per annum 3.37 3.64
7 Training Hr. Contractor individual per employee 0.42 0.49
per annum
8 % covered Employees 90.74 90.21
9 % Covered Contract workforce 89.82 86.87

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 HIRAC & SOP
HIRAC for the plant and its critical maintenances.

Nearly 200 No. of activities are considered for HIRAC covering plant &
mines operations & critical maintenance activities. There are reviewed:

• annually or
• any change in the activity or
• any change in process / technology up-dation or
• project activities

HIRAC procedure
Sample HIRAC

Standard Operating Procedures exist for all critical and regular activities.

• 232 Nos. of SOPs are made across the plant and or being followed.
• 252 Nos. of work instructions are prepared and also being followed.

Sample SOP
Sample work instruction
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 The pre-medical check procedure for employees

After receiving the request from Personnel Department for examination, consent is obtained from the
candidate for medical examination followed by :

Physical examination of the candidate to:

identify any visible physical abnormalities ,
anthropometric measurements are registered

Clinical lab investigations which includes:

Blood for Sugar ,
Lipid profile,
Urea, Creatinine,
Liver function tests and
Routine blood parameters like Hb%, Blood Group and Rh Typing, TC, DC, ESR
Urine – Complete
ECG,
X Ray Chest,
Audiometry and Spirometry at our OHC itself.
Vision tests
After the investigations the fitness details ‘ Fit/Unfit” is sent to Personnel department for further action .
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 Fatal Accident occurred on 14-11-2015

Base of Bin

Welded Angle

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 2.0 Workforce & Man hours Worked.
2.1 Average No. of workers in Factory.

Sl. Type of Workers 2014-15 2015-16

No
1 Regular 436 421

2 Contract 602 568

3 Total 1038 989

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 2.2 Man hours worked by all workers including
over time worked.

Sl. Type of Workers 2014-15 2015-16

No
1 Regular 1068720 899360

2 Contract 2782760 2584200

3 Total 3851480 3483560

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 3. Reportable incident and F.R.

Type 2014-15 2015-16

Nearmiss 5 3

High Potential Near miss 0 0

First – aid cases 7 5

LTI (Lost Time Incident) 0 0

Fatality 0 1

Man hours lost due to LTI 0 0

Severity Rate 0 1.72

Frequency Rate 0 0.28

No. of Dangerous occurrences as per 0 1

factory act

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 4. The longest accident free period (Continuous covering
the three years, assessment period 2013-2015)
From Period To Period No of Accident Free Million Man
Days Hours*
01-04-2013 13-11-2015 947 9.51

•Also we are monitoring incident -free man-hours & we achieved >1 million
thrice from 2014 to 2016.

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 5. HSE Policy
5.1. H&S policy.

Included in IMS policy.

5.2. Level at which policy has been in force.

IMS policy is in force from 01-01-2010.

5.3. Description of practices for H&S policy achievement of

objectives.

By our best safety practices. Some of the best practices are

shown in next slides.

5.4. IMS policy is made know to employees of your employees by

Daily in the morning, at assembly point near Time Office, IMS

Policy is chanted by all the gathering. And also displayed at
various sections.
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6. Review of HSE performance by top management
6.1. OHSMS certification.

Certified by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) since 2010.

6.2. Review of top management on H&S performance

• Safety data is reviewed in monthly review meetings by top

management.

• Safety related points are discussed in Safety Committee Meeting

once in a month by Committee Chairman, including the points
raised by internal audit teams of the committee.

• Management Review Meetings are conducted on half-yearly basis

covering OHSMS activities.

• Mock drill observations are reviewed immediately after the drill

and in the next mock drill period also.
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6. Review of HSE performance by top
management
6.3. The action taken by top management on those reports &
its implementation

• Non-conformities (NCs) / Opportunities for Improvements

(OFIs) raised by internal / external auditors are immediately
looked into. The status is reviewed in Management Review
Meetings.

• Safety related points raised by internal audit teams of the

safety committee are prioritized. The status is reviewed by
Safety Committee Chairman.

• Safety Mentors are nominated and are involved in propagating

the safety awareness among employees / contract workmen.
The discrepancies if any are discussed in Safety Committee by
Safety Committee Chairman.
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7. HSE Organization
7.1 The organizational set up and responsibilities at various
levels and arrangements for implementation of H&S policy.

Specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to occupational safety

are assigned to all levels of the employees of the organization.

7.2 H&S organogram

7.3 Safety KPI for every employee in order to achieve H&S

Objectives and its measurability

Specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to occupational safety

are assigned to all levels of the employees of the organization and
reviewed annually by top management.

Suitable rating is given for the number of incidents and man-days lost
due to injuries, based on that evaluation one time payment / bonus is
given.

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 H&S organogram:
UNIT HEAD

ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD WORKS HEAD

(SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN)

MEDICAL OFFICER SAFETY OFFICER

PARAMEDICS LAB SAFETY SAFETY

TECHNICIAN COMMITTEE MENTORS
MEMBERS

CONTRACTOR
SAFETY OFFICERS
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7.4 H&S Personnel
Sl. Regular/ Working
Name Designation Qualification
No Contract Since
1 Sri PB Regular Sr. President B Tech (Mech.) Decembe
Gopalakrishna (Mfg.) r 2008
2 Sri M Chidambaram Regular Vice President B. Com, FCA January
(Admn.) 2014
3 Sri T Sridhar Reddy Regular Asst. Vice B Tech (Mech.) April,
President 2008
(Works)
4 Sri S Raja Kesava Regular Deputy General MBBS, PGC in April,
Prasad Manager (OHS) Industrial 2008
Health
5 Sri AV Regular Sr. Manager B Tech (Mech.), August,
Satyanarayana (Mech.) / Diploma in 1995
Safety Officer Industrial
Safety
6 Smt K V Regular Asst Officer – GNM August,
Padmavathi Nursing 1994
7 Sri SM Varun Regular Deputy Officer- B.Sc,D . June,
Chakravarthy Paramedical Pharamacy 2009
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7.4 H&S Personnel
Sl. Regular/ Working
Name Designation Qualification
No Contract Since
8 Sri G Raja Regular Asst Officer - DMLT March,
Sekhar Paramedical (Lab 2013
Technician )
9 Sri P S Ch Regular Jr Officer – B.Sc, D . May,
Naresh Kumar Paramedical Pharamacy 2013
(Pharmacist)
10 Sri MVV Regular Jr Officer – B.Sc ,D . Apr, 2014
Ramana Paramedical Pharamacy
(Pharmacist)
11 Sri K Laxmaiah Contract Safety Officer of DME, Diploma in July 2016
Thermax Limited Industrial Safety
12 Sri S Kabeer Contract Safety Officer of DCE, Diploma in January
Petron Industrial Safety 2016

Visiting Doctors:
• Dr S Vamsi Priya MD (Obg & Gynec) visits our OHC twice in a week
• Dr Kanakalingeswara Rao BHMS visits our OHC once in week
• Dr MD Nagaeswara Rao BDS Visits our OHC once in a week
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 8. HSE Trainings.
8.1 Training need identification (TNI) for employees and contractors.

Training needs are identified by concerned HODs / Divisional Heads for

employees and contract workmen for the financial year concerned at
the beginning of the year.

8.2 Training matrix for Employees & Contractors.

Training matrix

8.3 Training effectiveness is measured through feedback.

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 8.HSE Trainings.
8.4 The induction method followed for employees, contract
workforce, experts, Govt. Officials and others.

Employees – 2 man-days
Contract Employees – 1 man-day (Safety)
Government officials / Others – While sending inside safety induction
/ Safety manual reading.
8.5 Maintaining of individual training records.

Training matrix

8.6 HSE training to drivers (Internal& External Vehicles).

• Trainings are being given for internal drivers at par with employees.
• For External drivers, while entering from gate induction being given.
• Training programme conducted for local auto drivers by external
faculty while Road Safety Week 2015 at our premises.

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8.7 Training Particulars.
Sl.
Trainings 2014-15 2015-16
No.
1 Internal Trainings 24 27
2 External Trainings 2 1
3 Training Participants Company 392 378
4 Training Participants Contractors 786 816
5 Total Training Hours 1995 2107
6 Training Hr. individual per employee per annum 3.37 3.64
7 Training Hr. Contractor individual per employee 0.42 0.49
per annum
8 % covered Employees 90.74 90.21
9 % Covered Contract workforce 89.82 86.87

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 9 MOCK DRILL
Major Mock Drills are conducted
yearly once at Plant & Mines.
Minor Mock Drills yearly thrice at
plant. After completion of Mock
drill, observer’s comments are
discussed and implemented.

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 Mock Drills

Year Major Minor

2014-15 1+1 3

2015-16 1+1 3

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 Observation report for Major Mock drill observations –

Report - 23.05.2014.docMock drill observations - Report – 11.02.2015.doc

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 10. Accident / Incidents Reporting

10.1 Method of reporting system in the organization

Reporting System

10.2 Reporting Path

Reporting System

10.3 RCA (Root cause analysis) is conducted on all incidents.

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10. Accident / Incidents Reporting

10.4 Leading the RCA process

* Safety Officer with Concerned Section in-charge.

* Preliminary Incident Investing Team (PIIT) if appointed by Top
Management for investigation for the particular incident

10.5 Extension for incompletion of CAPA points does not get closed as
per target dates provided

Take the reasons for not closing CAPA and with proper
justification the dates are extended by appropriate authority,
such as:

* Safety committee chairman

* Top management for Non-conformities / Opportunities for
Improvements raised by internal & external auditors

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11. HIRAC & SOP
11.1 HIRAC for the plant and its critical maintenances.

Nearly 200 No. of activities are considered for HIRAC covering plant &
mines operations & critical maintenance activities. There are reviewed:

• annually or
• any change in the activity or
• any change in process / technology up-dation or
• project activities

HIRAC procedure
Sample HIRAC

11.2 Standard Operating Procedures exist for all critical and regular
activities.

• 232 Nos. of SOPs are made across the plant and or being followed.
• 252 Nos. of work instructions are prepared and also being followed.

Sample SOP
Sample
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 11. HIRAC & SOP
11.3 Job Safety Analysis (JSA) & Job Safety Observation (JSO)
system.

Job Safety Analysis sample copy

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12.Contractors Safety Management.
12.1 Evaluation of contractors

While selecting the contractor, their previous history of accident-free man-days is

considered as one of the criteria for evaluation.

12.2 The frequency of contractor’s safety performance monitoring

• Monthly once for Labor supply contract and

• Job contractor after completion of the job.

While awarding Job contract to Contractor, we issue General safety conditions to

be followed. If any violation is observed, particular contract workmen is sent out
from duty for specific period and suitable penalty is also imposed to the concerned
Contractor.

12.3 Deployment of qualified safety person by contractors:

2 Nos. of qualified Safety Officers are deployed presently by 2 Nos. of major

contractors.

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 12.Contractors Safety Management.

12.4 Frequency of contractor getting involved in safety meetings.

Monthly once. 2 Nos. of qualified Safety Officers who are deployed by 2

Nos. of major contractors, attend the Safety Committee Meetings along with
other committee members.

12.5 The method adapted to encourage contractors safety

performance

Conducting Safety training to all contract employees and taking the

feed back from them with questionnaire.

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13 Safety Audits.

Sl.
Audits 2014-15 2015-16
No.
1 Internal
No of Observation 221 210
Compliance % 95 96
Variance% 5 4
2 External
No of Observation 25 18
Compliance % 100 100
Variance nil nil

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 14.Occupational Health.
14.1 Dedicated OHC & Dedicated Staff
Sl. Regular/
Name Designation Qualification
No Contract
1 Sri S Raja Regular Deputy General Manager MBBS, PGC in
Kesava Prasad (OHS) Industrial
Health
2 Smt K V Regular Asst Officer –Nursing GNM
Padmavathi
3 Sri SM Varun Regular Deputy Officer- B.Sc,D .
Chakravarthy Paramedical (Pharmacist) Pharamacy
4 Sri G Raja Regular Asst Officer -Paramedical DMLT
Sekhar (Lab Technician )
5 Sri P S Ch Regular Jr Officer –Paramedical B.Sc, D .
Naresh Kumar (Pharmacist) Pharamacy
6 Sri MVV Regular Jr Officer –Paramedical B.Sc ,D .
Ramana (Pharmacist) Pharamacy
Visiting Doctors:
• Dr S Vamsi Priya MD (Obg & Gynec) visits our OHC twice in a week
• Dr Kanakalingeswara Rao BHMS visits our OHC once in week
76• Dr MD Nagaeswara Rao BDS Visits our OHC once in a week
 Facilities Available at our OHC:

ECG (12 Lead)machine

Defibrillator
Foetal Doppler
Well equipped clinical lab with Semi Auto analyzer
300 mA X ray Machine( Allengers)
Digital Audiometer
Spirometer
Multiparamonitor
Surgical equipment for handling minor injuries and minor cases
Oxygen Concentrator
Suction apparatus
Nebulizer
Well equipped AC Ambulance

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 14.2 The pre-medical check procedure for employees

After receiving the request from Personnel Department for examination, consent is obtained from the
candidate for medical examination followed by :

Physical examination of the candidate to:

identify any visible physical abnormalities ,
anthropometric measurements are registered

Clinical lab investigations which includes:

Blood for Sugar ,
Lipid profile,
Urea, Creatinine,
Liver function tests and
Routine blood parameters like Hb%, Blood Group and Rh Typing, TC, DC, ESR
Urine – Complete
ECG,
X Ray Chest,
Audiometry and Spirometry at our OHC itself.
Vision tests
After the investigations the fitness details ‘ Fit/Unfit” is sent to Personnel department for further action .
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14.3 The frequency of re-medical checkup for employees?

• Once in a year for all regular employees and contract workmen.

• Specific health surveillance tests carried out for food handlers and drivers at regular intervals
(once in 6 months) or even before based on the health condition.

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 14.4 Ensuring of contractor workforce medical prior to deployment
on job

After receiving the request from Personnel Department examination, consent is obtained from the
candidate for medical examination followed by:

Physical examination of the candidate to :

identify any visible physical abnormalities ,
anthropometric measurements will be registered

Clinical lab investigations relevant to the job the person is going to handle like: Motion,
Urine,
Blood examination for Food handlers
Blood test, Audiometry and
Vision for Drivers

After the investigations the fitness details ‘ Fit/Unfit” will be sent to personnel department for
further action.

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 15.SAFETY PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Safety Flash Display

 For the newly joined employees and contract workmen,

safety awareness is inculcated by showing the safety
practices / appliances at Safety PPE Exhibition Room.

 Safety News Letter sharing

 Accident case studies sharing

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 16 Awards & Rewards

Sl. Awards Achieved /

2014-15 2015-16
No. Awarded by

1 Mr. Rambabu Won first prize in Won third prize in

telugu Slogans at English Slogans at
State level Safety State level Safety
competitions competitions

2 Mr.Sivasubramanyam Won third prize in

English Essay writing
at State level Safety
competitions

82 Best Practice
 Thank you..

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