The International Safety Awards by British Safety Council, recognising Sanmar’s achievement in effective health and safety management... National Safety Awards for an accident free year and the lowest average frequency rate... State Government Safety Awards and honours for accident free work environment...
All these awards stand testimony to Sanmar’s commitment towards total safety for over four decades.
BS&B Safety Systems (India), Karapakkam, Tyco Sanmar, Viralimalai, Xomox Sanmar, Viralimalai, Sanmar Foundries, Viralimalai, and Sanmar Speciality Chemicals, Berigai, received National Safety Awards from the Government of India. The awards came as a recognition for their outstanding safety performance based on lowest average frequency rate and accident free working for the year 2009.
P Manoharan received the National Safety Awards on behalf of The Sanmar Group from Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister for Labour and Employment, Government of India, in New Delhi on 29 November 2011.
Work plays a central role in people’s lives since most workers spend at least eight hours a day in the workplace. It is imperative that the work environment should be safe and healthy, whether at the plant or the office.
Health and safety programmes not only protect workers by reducing hazards and their consequences, but also have positive effects on the workers’ morale and productivity alike.
At Sanmar, the emphasis on work-life quality is laid through a detailed policy on Safety and Health that provides a safe and healthy working environment for all employees and contractual workers. Here are some of the safety practices in vogue in Sanmar.
Monitoring of
Safety guidelines are available in all plants covering all safety related issues including personal protective equipment use, permit systems, the fi re protection system, toxic gas monitoring, work place monitoring, safety walk, manual handling of material, tools use, material transportation, transport emergency and mobile equipment.
Safety booklets are provided in vernacular languages. Booklets covering various safety issues are being distributed to all contract and regular employees for ready reference.
Safety walks and safety inspections which cover workplace-related hazards and unsafe conditions, and ensure the integrity of safety devices are regularly undertaken.
Fire safety drills are carried out on a regular basis with employees as well as security personnel.
Internal auditing system is established to verify the adherence of the established procedures/ system carried out at the shop fl oor.
Ambient air quality is being monitored by the external agency at 7 specifi c locations on weekly basis.
A 'safety tool box' talk at the start of the daily shift at the workplace helps overcome hazards.
Incidents of ‘near-misses’ are captured through a specifi c reporting format. All these incidents are investigated by a cross-functional team from independent plants. Their recommendations are implemented to prevent recurrence.
Mock drills
Potential emergency scenarios are identifi ed at each Chemplast plant, based on past experience, quantitative risk assessment and HAZOP studies. Mock drills are carried out to introduce the workforce to emergency situations, familiarising each employee with his role and responsibilities.
The Mettur, Karaikal and Cuddalore plants of Chemplast and Flowserve Sanmar won the prestigious International Safety Awards for the year 2010 from the British Safety Council.
The International Safety Award recognises and rewards organisations that show a real commitment in improving health and safety. The award is acknowledged by the UK Health and Safety Executive as a powerful motivator for achieving high safety standards.
Chemplast Sanmar’s caustic soda/ chlorine plant based on membrane cell technology at Plant III, Mettur Dam, has installed state-of-the-art safety measures in the chlorine absorption system, with built-in safety features. The power to the panels of chlorine absorption system is fed from the captive coal power plant and in parallel with the 110KV TNEB grid. Taking into account the imperative need to ensure continuous power supply to the chlorine absorption system, an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) system with a capacity of 250 kVA has been installed. The power fed through the UPS ensures continuous and uninterrupted fl ow in the plant in the event of any sudden power outage.This UPS system ensures the power supply, without any time delay, within fraction of a second to chlorine gas absorption system thus eliminating the emission of chlorine to the atmosphere.
This UPS system is a backup to a diesel driven blower and circulation pump and connected chlorine absorption tower as an additional power redundancy, apart from the caustic deluge system to quench the process line chlorine absorption. These ensure that the three stage chlorine scrubbing system is on continuous operation for absorbing unliquifi ed chlorine in lime solution. Chemplast Mettur is the fi rst chloralkali manufacturer to install such a facility in India.
The Sanmar Group instituted the ‘Annual Safety Awards’ in 2010 to bring safety standards to a world class level. The award aims to institutionalise international safety processes and practices at Sanmar. For the sake of this award, all the units in Sanmar are grouped into three categories, namely:
Dr R Palaniappan and S Gajendran from Chemplast Sanmar, Mettur Plant II receiving the award in Process category from V Narayanan.
Victor Asir and Murali Krishnan from Flowserve Sanmar receiving the award in Non Process category from V Thyagarajan.
Capt Arnab Bhattacharya, Master of Sanmar Majesty receiving the award for Shipping category from Adit Jain.
Process category
Winner: Chemplast Sanmar, Mettur Plant II
1st runner-up: Chemplast Sanmar, Mettur Plant III
2nd runner-up: Chemplast Sanmar, Cuddalore
Non Process category
Winner: Flowserve Sanmar, Karapakkam
1st runner-up: Tyco Sanmar, Viralimalai
2nd runner-up: Xomox Sanmar, Viralimalai
Shipping
Winner: MT Sanmar Majesty
Runner-up: MV Sanmar Paragon
Sanmar Engineering has been a pioneer in products and components crucial to industrial safety.
BS&B Safety Systems is committed to providing foolproof safety devices in critical applications in high tech industries— from Chandraayan, India’s prestigious space project, to the Bhavini Fast Breeder Reactor Project at Kalpakkam, from India’s power OEMs like BHEL or L&T to Los Angeles-based Bloom Energy.
Flowserve Sanmar is the market leader in engineered, mechanical sealing devices. Tyco Sanmar offers the entire range of Anderson Greenwood and Crosby pressure relief valves.
The Pacifi c Valves division of Xomox Sanmar Limited offers the full range of Gate, Globe and Check Pressure Seal Valves to power stations and process industries involving fl ow control.