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HEALTH

1. INTRODUCTION

This document defines the safety and health requirements required to be implemented during the production process. The requirement given in this document is in addition to the requirement of any other Local Statutory Regulations, and the safety rules, regulations at the factory
The basic responsibility of enforcing these guidelines rests with Production Manager and the Safety Officer of the site will assist him in implementing this. Capital Middle East LLC believes firmly that managing safety is a line responsibility and it is a good business practice to provide safe working environment to the workmen at factory
The role and responsibilities of the site personnel in accident prevention is given in the chapter on “Organization and Responsibilities”.
Safety Officer of the factory will act as catalyst in motivating the front line Engineers and Formen to fulfill their obligations on safety. He will monitor the safety activities of the shop floor on a day to day basis and will report to the Production Manager if there is any deviation/violation from the regulations contained in

2. SAFETY POLICY

We, at Capital Middle East LLC hold in high regard, the safety, welfare and health of our employees. We firmly believe that every employee is entitled to work under the safest possible conditions. All possible efforts will be made in the interest of accident prevention, fire protecting and health preservation in all our work place, workshops and projects. It is a good business practice to guard against accidents and occupational diseases.

It is our belief that taking specific safety precautions will prevent all accidents, which injure people, damage machinery and destroy materials. All employees in our organization are expected to perform their job without compromising the safety standards prescribed in the safety guidelines issued from time to time. Preventing accidents and the associated costs will permit us to be more competitive in the industry, thus helping to safeguard our business interests.We do realize that we have a responsibility not to endanger the environment due to our operations. Our organization will do its best in environmental protection.

GENERAL MANAGER

3. ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Organization chart indicating the Safety Officer is enclosed as Annexure-1. The responsibility for implementing this safety plan is given below.

1 Production Manager Responsible for the total compliance of this safety plan.
2 Site Safety Officer
  1. Assisting the Production Manager in implementing the guidelines given in this document.
  2. Inspect the entire factory on a continuous basis, making on spot corrections of unsafe acts of the workmen and taking suitable steps to eliminate all the unsafe conditions. He will give an inspection report every week (Annexure-5 shown the format to be used) indicating all the unsafe conditions noticed by him at site highlighting the status of rectifying the same.
  3. Planning the requirement of first aid, fire fighting and safety appliances well in advance.
  4. Ensuring the accident report in the prescribed format (An-2) is sent to all concerned as explained in the chapter on “Accident Reporting”.
  5. Organizing the inspection of power tools at a regular basis based on the enclosed check list (An-3) and maintaining a record or such inspection.
  6. Conducting safety meeting of all staff members, which will be chaired by the Production Manager, once every month. Maintaining the minutes of such meetings.
  7. Providing induction programs for all the staff and workmen on their arrival at factory and organizing refresher sessions whenever required. He will maintain record of conducting such programs.
  8. Conducting job safety analysis for critical works, before they are taken up, to identify the possible hazards and the precautions to be taken based on regular monthly/weekly/daily planning schedules.
  9. Preparing activity specific safety plans and sending it to the GM before any new activity
3 Erection Engineer / Supervisor / Foremen
  1. Understanding this safety plan fully and following the same in their day-to-day activities
  2. Giving safety instructions to their workmen on daily basis as a part of the job instructions, highlighting the possible hazards in that day’s work and the precautions to be taken.
  3. Keeping their work area neat and clean, especially at height free from loose materials
  4. Taking an active part in the site safety meetings, if any.
  5. Preventing horseplay of workmen.
  6. Organizing toolbox talks to their workmen every week
TOOL BOX TALK

This will be conducted every week by all the supervisors and the foremen to their respective workmen. Following subjects will be covered in the tool box talks. In addition to this, depending upon the factory activities currently in progress, job specific hazards and the precautions to be taken will be highlighted whenever required.

  • Unsafe conditions and unsafe acts noticed at site during the previous week..
  • Lessons learnt from the accidents/near misses, if any.
  • Safety precautions to be taken in the next weeks work.
  • Safety systems and procedures to be followed at factory
  • Safety checklists.
  • Role of workmen in preventing accidents.
  • Activity related safety precautions such as:-
    • - Safe usage of ladders, power tools and fork lifts.
    - Electrical safety requirements.
    - Fire precautions to be taken at factory.
    - Safe usage of hand tools.
    - Welding, gas cutting, lamination procedures.
    - Procedures of manual and mechanical handling of materials.
    - Safety rules related to house keeping and site tidiness.
    - Need for providing safe access to work place.
    - Hazards associated with handling compressed gas cylinders and chemicals.
    - Material storage and transportation requirements.
    - Working near heavy equipment and machinery.
    - Health hazards.
    - Emergency evacuation procedures.
    - Personal protective appliances.
    - Heal stress likely to be associated working.
Training Plan
  • All staff and technicians will go through an induction program at Capital Middle East LLC office before their deployment at factory.
  • The site Safety Officer will give this and a record will be maintained to this effect.
  • Subjects to be covered during the induction sessions will be
    • - Commitment of Capital Middle East LLC to prevent accidents.
    - Hot work permit; objective and the procedure.
    - Inspection of scaffoldings, ladders power tools and exhaust fans.
    - Safety appliances to be used with reference to various activities.
    - Security instructions.
    - Power tools: guards / cords / plug tops / connections.
    - Fire prevention: paint / no smoking.
    - Removal barricades.
    - House keeping: cables / packing material / scrap.
    - Emergency plan.
    - Usage of fork lift and crane hoist.
    - What to do in case of accident.
  • The daily work instructions will include the hazards likely to be encountered and the precautions to be taken
  • Toolbox talk will be organized once in a week in the morning before starting the work. The respective site foremen will do this for their technicians. Minutes of this meeting will be recorded and will be maintained at production manager office
  • Unsafe conditions and unsafe acts noticed at factory, lessons learnt from the accidents, safety precautions to be taken in the next days etc, will be focus of discussion during the tool box talks.
  • All visitors will be required to meet a responsible person in our Head office before proceeding to the factory. They will be briefed about the basic safety requirements of the job. Few safety helmets and shoes will be kept at factory, for distribution to the visitors. They will also be required to sign a declaration (Annexure-6) that they have been given safety induction. A responsible person will accompany the visitors if he has to taken to the production premises.

4. ACCIDENT REPORTING

  • All accidents and near miss incidents at factory will be recorded in the first aid register..
  • All lost time inquires and property damage accidents (near misses) will be reported immediately and a detailed report will be sent within 48 hours of the accident. Copy of the fitness certificate obtained from the doctor will also be submitted or receiving the same.
  • The Safety Officer will investigate all accidents, including the near misses and first aid cases. The investigation report will be submitted to Head Office.
  • All serious accidents will be reported to the Police and the scene of accident will be preserved until the Police investigations are completed

5. SAFETY APPLIANCES

  • All workmen entering the factory will be required to use uniforms on which name of the Company will be prominently displayed. They will also be made to use safety shoes and safety helmets while at work.
  • Safety goggles or face shields will be provided to all the employees who are required to do overhead drilling, grinding, chipping, polishing and any other works where flying object hazard exists.
  • Welders will be provided with welding shields with dark glass of suitable shade, leather hand gloves and flame cutters will be provided with goggles with dark glasses. Apron will also be provided to them wherever required.
  • Cotton gloves will be provided to all employees who are likely to handle materials with sharp objects.
  • Safety belts will be provided to all workmen who are likely to fall down more than 1.5m height from their place of work.
Checklist for Safety Appliance
SAFETY APPLIANCE APPLICATIONS
Hard Hat / Safety Helmet All employees including visitors
Safety goggles / face shields Overhead drilling, grinding, chipping
Welding shields Welders
Safety Shoes All employees
Gloves – Cotton Material handlers
Gloves – Latex Insulation applicators and laminators
Gloves – Leather Welders, GRP cutters
Safety Belts As required – to all employees
Aprons Welders and laminators

Factory works / operations will be periodically reviewed to determine the requirement of any additional safety equipment.

6. ACTIVITY WISE HAZARD ANALYSIS

General
  • Based on the hazard analysis carried out earlier and with our previous experience in implementing safety procedures at various items, following safety precautions have been developed.
  • Although utmost care has been exercised while doing the hazard analysis, this is based on the data currently available at present. Certain additional environmental hazards may be encountered during the execution and to decide the precautions to be taken
  • Activity specific safety plans for new activities will be prepared by the Safety Officer based on the weekly look ahead plans and the precautions suggested by him will be implemented by the foremen while taking up the said activity.
Temporary Facilities
  • Hazards:
  • Fire hazard
  • Electric shock
  • Hygiene related hazards
  • Precaution:
  • All electric connections will be routed through ELCB only.
  • Make shift wiring will not allowed at any circumstance at a later stage. If any additional requirement arises, flexible wires installed in conduits will be used.
  • Fire extinguishers will be provided near working area and will be inspected by the safety officer every month to keep them in good working conditions.
  • Enough number of electrical outlets will be provided for the use of electrical appliances.
Portable Power Tools

Hazards:

  • Electric shock
  • Hit by rotating objects
  • Foreign body falling in to the eye

Precautions:

  • An identified electrician at factory will check all portable power tools before releasing it to the use. It will be inspected by the same person every month to ensure that it continuous to be safe to use (Annexure-3). It will be the responsibility of the site safety officer to ensure that all the power tools are regularly inspected and a record is maintained to this effect.
  • If a power tool is found to be unsafe to use during the regular inspection, it shall be marked / tagged to that effect and returned to stores for repair or replacement
  • Power cables provided to the tools will not have any joint and the cables will be laid in such a way that it does not present any trip hazard
  • All power cables will be provided with industrial plug and sockets for power distribution
  • The guards provided in the power tools shall not be removed either by the technicians or by the maintenance electrician
  • The power tools shall either be returned to the stores at the end of the shift everyday or shall be stored properly at site to prevent its damage
  • All portable power tools will be of working-220V
Hand Tools

Hazards:

  • Tools falling down from heights.
  • Hit by the sharp edges of the tools..
  • Hit by flying objects
  • Slipping and falling due to the use of worn out tools

Precautions:

  • The storekeeper will inspect all hand tools before issuing it to the worker to ensure that they are in good working condition
  • All the supervisors and safety officers will look for defective tools being used on the job on a continuous basis with specific reference to broken handles, blunt edges, worn out heads, cracked parts etc. any such damaged tools, if found at work place, will be removed immediately and destroyed
  • Home made, make shift hand tools fabricated will not be allowed. Any such tools found at site will be removed and destroyed.
  • Technicians reminded regularly during toolbox talks about the perils of misusing hand tools and the necessity of informing the defects found in the tools immediately
  • Technicians will be asked to use goggles while carrying out chipping, hammering and similar operations.
  • Using pliers or wrenches as hammers, using screw drivers as chisels, using screw spanner of pipe wrench instead of double end or ring spanner etc, are unsafe practices and are bound to result in minor accidental injuries. All those will be explained to workmen in the tool box talks and will be prohibited
  • As far as possible, the hand tools will be provided with a rope, which can be used for trying the same with the safety belts so that it does not fall down during usage inadvertently
Welding and Frame Cutting
Hazards:
  • Hot burns
  • Foreign body falling in the eye
  • Arc eye
  • Electric shock
  • Fall of cylinders
Precautions:

Any gas cutting or welding work can be taken up only after obtaining a work permit in the enclosed format (Annexure-4) from the site safety officer. The concerned supervisors will be required to get the hot work permit from the safety officer and arrange all the precautions mentioned in the permit before starting the hot work.

Precautions:

Any gas cutting or welding work can be taken up only after obtaining a work permit in the enclosed format (Annexure-4) from the site safety officer. The concerned supervisors will be required to get the hot work permit from the safety officer and arrange all the precautions mentioned in the permit before starting the hot work.

Flame cutting
  • Oxygen and acetylene cylinders will not be allowed inside the shaft
  • Acetylene cylinder will be kept upright always and will be tied somewhere to ensure that it does not topple down during use.
  • he supervisor concerned will inspect the regulators to ensure that there is no leakage and it functions properly. Leaky of malfunctioning regulators will be removed from service immediately
  • The hose will be laid in such a way not pose any trip hazard
  • The gas cutters will be required to use gloves and goggles
  • Enough number of fire extinguishers will be installed and maintained at site wherever there is no potential fire hazard.
  • Site safety officer will conduct a fire survey, as frequently as required to asses the fire load, type of prevention and fighting plan required at site
  • The flammable liquid (plant, insulation compounds etc) storage area will be clearly identified and will be suitably barricaded. The storage area will be provided with fireproof walls. Storage of flammable liquid in the main building will not be permitted.
  • All the used flammable liquid containers will be collected immediately, brought back to a safe storage place, and suitably disposed off. Flammable liquid containers will not be left unattended at site without their lids.
  • Incandescent or halogen lamps will not be used near the insulation application and lamination areas.
  • Packing materials, if any, will be removed on the same day from the site, whenever it is opened from the consignment.
  • Training on the use of fire extinguishers will be conducted to all the employees as a part of the induction session and it will be repeated in the tool box talks whenever required.

    • 7. HEALTH PLAN

    First Aid Welfare Facilities
    • The first aid center available at site will be used for all the emergencies.
    • All major injuries will be taken to the nearest hospital.
    • The ambulance facilities area will be provide with garbage bins with lids to dispose all food left over by the employees. It will be removed every day.
    • The accommodation facilities of the workmen are being mentioned in hygienic condition to ensure that they are able to take necessary rest during their rest period
    • Cool drinking water bill will be made available at site. The workmen will be encouraged to drink enough amount of water during summery
    Emergency Evacuation

    Common emergency evacuation procedure, which is to be evolved in the co-ordination meeting with all contractors, will be incorporated after deciding the same

    Waste Management
    • All the scrap materials generated at site will be placed at the scrap bins provided at the respective floors. This will be responsibility of the respective group of workmen
    • The flammable wastes such as empty containers of paint, resin etc, will not be disposed off in the scrap bins. It will be removed on daily stores where a separate storage is maintained for such purposes

    8. TRANSPORTATION

    • Personnel officer will be responsible for the transportation and vehicle management
    • All vehicles will be operated by licensed drivers holding valid driving license
    • Speed limit of the vehicles at site will be restricted 20kmph within the site premises
    • If the vehicles have to reverse in crowded work premises, a helper should assist the driver
    • It will be the responsibility of the drivers to ensure that the vehicles are not overloaded beyond its rated loads
    • Drivers will also be responsible for informing the Personnel Officer whenever the regular maintenance of the vehicle falls due. No compromise will be made on the maintenance and upkeep of the vehicles
    • Drivers and operators will not be allowed to work for more than 12 hours continuously on any circumstances
    • Vehicles will only be parked at designated locations in the site without obstructing the free flow of traffic
    • If there is any projected material from the vehicles, warning flag and / or red lamp will be tied to the projection to warn others of the danger. The material will be tied properly when loaded in vehicles to prevent its dislodgement while moving.

    9. WORK CONTROL MEASURES

    Permits to Work
    • Any gas cutting or welding work can be taken up only after obtaining a work permit in the enclosed format (Annexure-4) form the site safety officer. The concerned supervisors will be required to obtain the hot work permit from the safety officer and arrange all the precautions mentioned in the permit before starting the hot work
    • If any barricade or edge protection is to be removed, it shall be fixed back immediately or alternative arrangements shall be made.
    House Keeping
    • Smoking will not be permitted in the work site.
    • Trash containers will be kept near the rest area and the technicians will be advised to dispose lunch box, soft drink bottle etc, only in trash containers.
    • All materials at site will be neatly stacked in the assigned location provided with suitable enclosures.
    • Scrap generated at site will be removed on a day-to-day basis by the respective.

      • Technicians at the end of the shift everyday. The concerned supervisors will be responsible for ensuring this without fail.

    • Packing materials, if any, shall be removed from the site immediately after opening the boxes
    • Gas cylinders shall be kept in the floors in such a way that it cannot be tipped inadvertently by anybody
    • Welding cables, power cables etc, will be laid in such a way that it will not cause trip hazard
    Barricades/Signs/Tags
    • Defective scaffoldings, ladders or power tools, if found during the scheduled inspection, will be tagged immediately and will be removed from service
    • If the edge protection or barricade is removed to gain access to the prohibited locations to carry out any specific work there, it will be replaced after the work is over. Temporary barriers will be fixed, even if the crew has to leave the place of work even for short while
    • Information posters will be put up in appropriate locations indicating the emergency telephone numbers, location of fire extinguishers etc
    • No smoking signs and hot work prohibition signs will be installed wherever required
    • Suitable safety posters and stickers will be arranged from time to time
    • Posters indicating emergency telephone numbers will be kept in the site office.
    Safety Inspection
    • Safety Inspection
    • The site safety office will inspect the entire site on a regular basis and will give an inspection report (Annexure-5) to the Project Manager. The respective area supervisor or the foremen will attend to all unsafe conditions pointed out by the safety officer. It will be the responsibility of the concerned engineers to ensure that the suggestions given by the safety officer is implemented
    • Safety Manager from corporate office will also inspect the site at a regular frequency to check the implementation of the safety policy and to incorporate any additional requirements in the safety plan to strengthen the accident prevention efforts
    • Site safety officer will ensure that all power tools at site are inspected properly on a regular basis as per the enclosed formats (Annexure-3)
    • He will also conduct periodical surveys to identify the target focus areas, so that the safety management of the site is on the right path always

    10. LIST OF ANNEXURES

    1. Accident report
    2. Power tools inspection check list
    3. Hot work permit
    4. Safety inspection report
    5. Visitor’s declaration