At Tata Chemicals, we have ingrained health and safety as an ethos across our business systems and processes. We believe all accidents are preventable, and the safety and well-being of our people is vital for sustained and sustainable business growth. Led by our focus on nurturing a Zero Harm workplace environment, we have committed ourselves to the creation of organisation-wide culture of safety.
We have aligned our health and safety focus to the Tata Code of Conduct, which serves as the foundation for maintaining high ethical and safety standards that are vital to the well-being of our employees and the success of the Company.
Making safety and health an integral part of the organisational strategy and business operations.
Creating a workplace where everyone understands the essence and demonstrates the key principles of safe working.
Deploying systematic processes and trained personnel, backed by adoption of global best practices and use of best in class technologies.
Ensuring the safety of processes, and well tested mitigation system deliver superior business results.
We have in place a well-articulated and integrated Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) policy.
Safety is part of the value system at Tata Chemicals. Our emphasis on creating a culture of safety is underlined by our unwavering commitment to the continual improvement of the organisation’s safety performance. We are focussed on engaging world-class health, safety and environment (HSE) practices with the aim of ensuring “Zero Harm” in the organisation.
We have concertedly adopted a focussed strategy for health and safety management to drive our ‘Zero Harm’ commitment. In pursuit of this objective, we are continually working on building safety leadership capability at all levels.
At Tata Chemicals, we acknowledge the importance of effective risk management. We use our regular assessment process to identify and mitigate safety risks that can affect our employees, processes, and operations. Our comprehensive assessment process enables us to make informed decisions that will help protect our people and our business. With this proactive approach, we ensure that our team is always safe and prepared for any potential risks.
Safety is an inherent facet of all stages of the project life cycle, and is ensured through the implementation of systematic processes. Execution is ensured through trained competent personnel, adequate monitoring and close supervision.
At Tata Chemicals, incident reporting and investigation is a clearly defined process, aligned to the Tata Group Guidelines for Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
The objective of every investigation is to ensure that all critical factors involved in an incident are determined through scientific investigation and analysis. It is further aimed at ensuring that the key factors are identified to derive the corrective and preventive steps which will eliminate recurrence.
Our standard procedure covers the methodology for the constitution of the investigation team and the process required to reach high degree of accuracy and consistency in findings. It also covers the methodology of implementation of the corrective and preventive steps, and adequate dissemination of the learnings garnered from the incident to all entities to avoid occurrence of such incidents at other site.
Employees identify unsafe conditions and report them on our e-enabled portal – MDO, which is regularly tracked to ensure risk control. We carry out internal / external audits, inspections and surprise checks. We also engage experts to identify gaps and improvement areas and to ensure effective implementation of the safety systems that are in place.
Initiatives
Impact
Our steadfast commitment to ensuring a ‘Zero Harm’ safety culture in the organisation is reflected in our plans and programmes for the coming years. Some of the future initiatives in this area include:
Cognisant of the criticality of process safety to operational safety, we have adopted the same as a tool to strengthen our SHE system. We are working on integrating the requirements of a Risk Based Process Safety Management framework, conforming to the requirements OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration, USA) and best practices, including the Centre for Chemical Process Safety, CCPS, USA.
We have also consciously adopted a risk-based approach in the areas of handling hazardous chemicals. Mithapur is moving towards Phase IV of this journey. The implementation efficacy is reviewed through annual audits and scoring as per API standard rankings in the range of 1 to 4. Since inception of PSRM implementation at Mithapur, the audit score has improved to 154% over the baseline score.
During FY 2022-23, we initiated a Leadership Sensitisation programme to reiterate our commitment towards safety excellence. Launched in collaboration with group companies and an external consultant, the programme is aimed at enhancing the Felt Leadership Skills of the participants. The goal is to accelerate the leadership’s efforts towards fostering a positive safety culture in their respective areas.
Through this concept, leaders emphasise on the importance of a demanding, uncompromising, and ever-improving safety culture. They further establish expectations that are clearly and universally understood, accepted and practised. The premise of this approach is based on the belief that empowering and engaging employees help improve the Company’s HSE performance in all areas.
Tata Group Level Safety Workshop - September 2022
Regional Safety Workshop - January 2023
Site Felt Leadership Workshop - February 2023
Fire Drill in collaboration with local fire officials
