Safety is crucial to every industry. At the same time, achieving complete safety in an industrial environment can be a challenge. Accidents can cause not only loss of work and productivity but also life.
At Sanmar, safety has always been of paramount concern. In order to bring our safety standards to a world class level, The Sanmar Group announced the ‘Annual Safety Awards’.The award aims to institutionalise international safety processes and practices at Sanmar.For the purpose of this award, all the units in Sanmar are grouped into three categories, namely:
• Process industry • Non Process industry • Shipping industry
G Senthamizh Chelvan and Victor Samuel from Chemplast, Cuddalore, receiving the award in the Process category from Prasad R Menon.
B Venkataramani and K Balasubramanian from Fisher Sanmar, Karapakkam, receiving the award in the Non Process category from V Narayanan.
(From l to r): Victor Samuel, N Balasubramanian and Capt S Krishnamurthy made presentations on the management of safety in the Process,
Non Process and Shipping categories.
The awards were based on implementation of good safety management practices as well as for ensuring an accident free workplace.
One unit from each category was awarded for the best safety performance year round by a team of judges nominated for this purpose.
The winners were judged based on evaluation of data provided by the units and after spot evaluation at the units. The period of evaluation was from July 2009 to June 2010.
Process category
Winner: Chemplast Sanmar, Cuddalore
First runner-up:
Chemplast Sanmar,Plant2, Mettur
Second runner-up: Chemplast Sanmar, Plant 3,
Mettur
Non Process category
Winner: Fisher Sanmar First runner-up: SFL - Machine Shop Second runner-up: Tyco Sanmar
Shipping
Winner: Sanmar Paragon
Runner-up: Sanmar Sonnet
Capt P Sebastian, Master of the Vessel Sanmar Paragon, receiving the award for Shipping Category from MK Sharma.