labour and ESI Principal Secretary and Crisis Group Member Secretary G Srinivas on Monday emphasised on holding mock drills on possible accidents at regular intervals in all high-risk factories.
Holding of mock drills are required to get ensured that emergency plans for fighting various possible accidents would work at the time of need and to sensitize all stakeholders, including communities living in the vicinity, he said while attending a mock drill held recently at the HPCl’s lPG Bottling Plant at Jatni.
The mock drill was carried out involving bottling plant staffs, other stakeholders and fire, health, police, transport, Directorate of Factories and Boilers personnel and District Crisis Group (DCG) and State Crisis Group members.
This was done as part of the regional conference on Chemical (Industrial) Disaster Management with the theme “Disaster Risk Reduction in Chemical, Metallurgical, Gas and other Industries”.
The conclave was jointly organised by State’s labor and ESI Department, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) from November 17 to 19 here.
Nearly, 200 delegates, who attended the conference from Odisha, West Bengal, Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand, were associated in the mock drill. The emergency preparedness of HPCl bottling plant in terms of personal protective gears, fire tenders, skill of personnel to act during emergency was assessed.
The mock drill was conducted under the supervision of Khordha Collector Niranjan Sahoo.
Among others, Factories and Boilers Director P C Das, NDMA Brigadier BK Khanna and senior officials of the Union Government witnessed the mock drill.