Tata Steel Kalinganagar Bags Safest Workplace Award

Kalinganagar: Tata Steel Kalinganagar in Odisha’s Jajpur district has been conferred the ‘Safest Workplace’ award in ‘large industries’ category.

The award was given at the safety conclave on “Best practices in Industries Safety & Occupational Health” organised by Directorate of Factories and Boilers of the state government in association with North Odisha Chamber of Commerce & Industries at Balasore on May 23, 2018.

Saroj Kanta Behera, an employee of Raw-Material Handling System (RMHS) of Tata Steel Kalinganagar was also awarded as the best Safe worker.

Nearly 240 delegates from various industries of North Odisha took part in this conclave. The objective was to create awareness amongst industrial workers on accidents happening in industries and the safe practices required to avoid such mishap. On this occasion, Singh appealed the industry houses to adhere the highest priority on human safety.

Industries having best practices on industrial safety and occupational health were awarded. Besides, workers from various industries of North Odisha were also awarded for adopting best practices in industrial safety and occupational health. Besides, a presentation on learning from incidents and its communication to the workers as well as best practices were presented by the delegates from various industries of North Odisha.

Among others, Industries, Energy and Labour & ESI minister Sushant Singh, Basta MLA Nityananda Sahu, Jajpur collector Ramesh Chandra Rout, President of Chamber of Commerce, Balasore HK Das, Director of Factories and Boilers  Kamalendu Mohapatra, Deputy Director of Factories & Boilers (Safety) Dr Malay Kumar Pradhan, Secretary, North Odisha Chamber of Commerce & Industry CP Bharatia, Ex-Director of Factories and Boilers Niranjan Kar and Assistant Director of Factories & Boilers, Balasore CS Behera were present on the occasion.