The Punjab Government on Tuesday approved the on-site emergency plan for all the 64 major accident prone factories to create an accident free and healthy working environment in factories thereby strictly ensuring the implementation of international safety norms.
“Punjab Government is working in association with the Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal, and the State labour Department has asked the Institute to prepare off-site emergency plans for six districts having maximum concentration of major accident hazardous units,” said State labour Minister Chunni lal Bhagat.
Bhagat, while addressing the gathering after awarding Punjab Kirti Shiromani Award, on the 43rd National Safety Day, said that there was a need to create awareness and sense of responsibility among industrial managements and workers. The Minister said that Punjab Government has taken some major steps for the safety of labour class which has shown outstanding results as 98.9 per cent industries were accident free in the State.
The Punjab labour Commissioner-cum-Director of Factories Harbhupinder Singh Nanda said that in Punjab, accident rate is less than one per thousand workers against the national figure of nine.