The Disaster Management Institute (DMI) organised a seminar on ‘Policy Development of Industrial Health and Safety’.
Director - DMI Bhopal Rakesh Dubey introduced the group with the agenda of the meeting and informed all about District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Disaster Management Plan (DMP).
The agenda of the meeting was to inform DIHS officials that under the Section 23, 39 and 40 of Disaster Management (DM) Act 2005, they are supposed to prepare a Disaster Management Plan for the Department
He told everyone present there that the DMP that will be developed by DIHS should be visionary plan keeping in mind the problems and disasters that might occur in coming 10 years.
Dubey asked departments to link up with NDMA and DDMA while making their DM plans, and suggested the officials to focus on Natural disasters induced by chemical disasters.
He also informed that there is a penalty clause for non adherence to the given guidelines of DM Act.
He suggested everyone to make a DM Plan and get the approach / process certified by NABCB and similar authorities. GIS based emergency planning is the latest technology driven work going on in this sector, that will help reduce the risks posed by disasters and aid in better planning.
Director of MP industrial Health and Safety Madhya Pradesh Narya was present with his District Officers at the conference and advocated that we have complied all provisions of Disaster Management Act without fail. Deputy Director DMI Bhopal Sudheer Dwivedi also shared his views.