Collector Rajat Kumar, while addressing a seminar on industrial health and security here, said that all industries should learn from these seminars and should ensure better security management so that they could attain the target of zero industrial disasters.
The Collector said, practically it was noticed that neither contractor nor the management takes the responsibility of the security of contract workers seriously. With mutual coordination both the contractor and the industry concerned should ensure the security of workers, he added.
He asked the deputy director, Industrial Health and Security to make sure whether the security-related training has been imparted to the workers engaged in industries or not. If the contractors engage untrained workers, action should be taken against them, he added.
TheCollector told the public private industry managements to ensure treatment arrangements in their institutions according to the risk involved in the job of the workers engaged in industries. He said all the employees working in industries should work in a disciplined manner and the management should not tolerate any type of indiscipline and they should be dismissed immediately. The district administration would support the industry for such action, he added.
The collector said to prepare a check-list of the useful points brought at the seminar and make it available to all the industrial managements. He said, in every disaster there were some human error, so all industries should be vigilant against it.
The chief guest of the inaugural function of the seminar chief engineer SK Banjara said it was a good attempt by the district administration towards zero accidents in industries. He said industrial accident causes loss of human lives and that spreads industrial unrest and at the same time the kin of the deceased have to undergo untold miseries.
Banjara said along with progress, attempts were being made to increase more production in the industries and in that course managements generally ignore rules and provisions of security, which lead to industrial disasters.
While presiding over the seminar chief engineer of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Solar Power Company Korba (East) SP Rege said, sharing the security-related experiences of the office-bearers of district industrial disaster management committee, members, senior security and industrial management officers of different industries and public undertakings have been very helpful in meeting the target of ‘zero industrial disaster’.
Chief engineer (Training) of Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board Cl Netam and chief engineer MS Kanwar also addressed the seminar.