| National Safety Day Message from Director (R&D & I/c S, H &E) |
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| March 2010 |
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Dear Colleague IOCians,
Today, March 04, 2010, we, along with the entire country, are observing “National Safety Day” to mark 39th Foundation Day of The National Safety Council of India. Safety, has been and is anintegral part of our survival, and today is the day to remind ourselves that our FIRST and FOREMOST job is to observe and ensure SAFETY, in all our actions, activities, behavior and operations.
Our corporation has undergone great turmoil and pain arising out of a major Fire incident at our Jaipur Terminal. It not only resulted in loss of life and properties, but caused a severe damage to the image of the corporation. The incident has highlighted serious concerns about our safety culture, and some level of overconfidence and occasional oversight in adhering to safety norms and procedure in our operation and maintenance procedures, due to overzealous effort in meeting emergent demands of market and customers. We have to remember, that the foremost objective of our business is to sell, but also to meet customers expectations with respect to safety, quality and environment.
Safety is a broad foundation of organisational health and sustaining growth. Accident/Incident free environment saves valuable corporate resources, by preventing injuries and damage to plant,equipments, and environment. Productivity is rooted in a strong safety culture, and so is the profitability. A consistent and sustained good safety performance will result in a long standing image of the company besides, sustaining growth, improving the bottom line, and realising our shared vision of making our IndianOil a GLOBALLY ADMIRED COMPANY.
We have always accorded high priority to Safety, Health & Environment wherein Safety Management is an integral part of overall Management System of the company, and yet this year has seen four fatal accidents in the first two months.
Most of these incidents are because of human error caused by negligence, which should no more be tolerated. Each one of us is a leader, leading the corporation from whichever level we are. We also know that all good and bad things flow top down, and therefore, each one of us must share responsibility of ensuring observance of safety 24*7, without compromise, with quality and productivity.
One of the important tools for improving safety performance is identifying and reporting “Near Miss incidents”. Reporting of Near Miss Incidents needs to be encouraged, on the patterns of suggestion scheme, and all such reported incidents should be analysed, corrective action taken and shared across IndianOil.
Our operations & maintenance procedures and safety systems and procedures are being reviewed. Benchmarking and upgradation of our safety systems, procedures and facilities with international norms has been started. We are organizsng a workshop on Fire Hazard Management of Storage Tanks and Associated Facilities with faculty assistance of renowned international experts in April 2010 at our Indian Institute of Petroleum Management (IiPM). Augmentation and induction of right people in the safety structure across corporation is in progress. Creating a critical mass of HAZOP experts across corporation, and developing and rewriting of Standard Operating Instructions/ Procedures and reinforcing IndianOil Culture of Safety is on the top of our agenda.
MoP&NG, Government of India had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Mr. M. B. Lal to investigate into the Jaipur Fire Incident. We have examined the report submitted by the committee in detail. A time bound action plan has been firmed up for implementation of its recommendations. This report is on website, which should be downloaded by each head of our installations, and pick up all actionable points for proactive implementation. Safety being our FIRST JOB, I propose that each location head must accord 20% weightage in the annual goals, to the safety, and its weightage must increase down below.
On the occasion of National Safety Day, I implore one and all in the corporation to rededicate ourselves to achieving incident free operation at all our workplaces. I wish each one of you and your families a Safe and Healthy Life.
Anand Kumar
Director (R&D) |
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| Board of Directors |
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B. M. Bansal
Director (Planning & Business Development) |
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S. V. Narasimhan
Director (Finance) |
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V. C. Agrawal
Director (Human Resources) & Director-in-change(IBP
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G. C. Daga
Director (Marketing) |
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B. N. Bankapur
Director (Refineries) |
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Anand Kumar
Director ( Research & Development)
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P. K. Chakraborti
Director (Pipelines) |
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