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Haldia Refinery and CII organize seminar on Industry Best Practices in Safety, Health & Environment (SHE)
New Delhi 05-Oct-2007
"In today's globalised market scenario, safety is vital to interruption free operation and profitability. As per statistics, an employee working in DuPont, the world renowned chemical major, is likely to get injured once in 100 years while an employee working in other world renowned chemical industries is expected to get injured once in 33 years." said Mr. Rajkumar Ghosh, ED (Haldia Refinery). He was inaugurating a seminar on 'Industry Best Practices in Safety, Health & Environment '(SHE) on October 04, 2007. In his keynote address Mr. Ghosh, highlighted on the current safety trends and practices in the industrial sector the world over. He added that, "In order to match with global safety standards, there is urgent need for a paradigm shift in our mindset. We need to graduate from the present Dependent stage (safety adherence under supervision) to Interdependent stage – when all of us champion the cause of safety." Mr. Ghosh chaired the opening session and called for meaningful coordination and sharing of safety culture and practices among the industries for furthering safety culture in Haldia. The day-long seminar consisted of two sessions where the participating industries made presentation on safety culture in their respective industries and shared their safety practices. Around 70 delegates from IndianOil, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. (HPL), TATA Chemicals, Exide Industries Ltd., Hindustan Uniliver Ltd., MCC PTA (Mitsubishi PTA), Hooghly Metcoke & Power Company Ltd., etc. participated in the seminar organized by Haldia Refinery in association with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Haldia.
New Delhi 05-Oct-2007
"In today's globalised market scenario, safety is vital to interruption free operation and profitability. As per statistics, an employee working in DuPont, the world renowned chemical major, is likely to get injured once in 100 years while an employee working in other world renowned chemical industries is expected to get injured once in 33 years." said Mr. Rajkumar Ghosh, ED (Haldia Refinery). He was inaugurating a seminar on 'Industry Best Practices in Safety, Health & Environment '(SHE) on October 04, 2007. In his keynote address Mr. Ghosh, highlighted on the current safety trends and practices in the industrial sector the world over. He added that, "In order to match with global safety standards, there is urgent need for a paradigm shift in our mindset. We need to graduate from the present Dependent stage (safety adherence under supervision) to Interdependent stage – when all of us champion the cause of safety." Mr. Ghosh chaired the opening session and called for meaningful coordination and sharing of safety culture and practices among the industries for furthering safety culture in Haldia. The day-long seminar consisted of two sessions where the participating industries made presentation on safety culture in their respective industries and shared their safety practices. Around 70 delegates from IndianOil, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. (HPL), TATA Chemicals, Exide Industries Ltd., Hindustan Uniliver Ltd., MCC PTA (Mitsubishi PTA), Hooghly Metcoke & Power Company Ltd., etc. participated in the seminar organized by Haldia Refinery in association with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Haldia.