Tata Steel has determined that it will be among the Safety leaders of the world. The Company’s leaders consistently urged its employees to build the Safety habit into their every day work culture and behaviour. National Safety Day and a plethora of activities designed to propagate the message are consistently used by the Company towards this goal. Tisco News brings you a flavour of the activities held recently

Dr. T Mukherjee appreciates the efforts of the winners

Tubes celebrates Safety Day

Safety is of paramount importance and an area where the Company has now launched an extremely focussed campaign. The 34th National Safety Day celebration was therefore celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm across the Company, including the Tubes Division on March 4, 2005. The dignitaries present at the celebrations included, Mr U K Chaturvedi, Vice President (Long Products); Mr P L Sah, Deputy President, Tata Workers’ Union and Mr S M Hussain, EIC (Tubes). They all emphasised on the relevance of Safety, especially in industrial establishments. The occasion was also chosen to reward winners of various safety competitions and initiatives organised by the Safety and Environment Department.The winner of the overall championship was the P T Mills. During the function, a Visitor’s Safety Guidebook was released by the chief guest, Mr U K Chaturvedi.

Street plays - a medium which catches the interest of all

Street Smart and Safe

“Dhoom Macha De” the street play on safety staged by LD Shop # 1 struck an instant chord with the audience primarily due to a very balanced mix of humour and tragedy. These emotions were used effectively to communicate the message of safety to the audience. The script had been cleverly crafted to bring to the attention of all, the importance of following the path laid down by DuPont for Tata Steel’s journey towards excellence in Safety. At tha end of the presentation all those present during the show, took a safety oath.

SAFETY – the prime prerogative of every employee

To reinforce the significance of maintaining safety standards, a one day in-house training-cum-safety talk was organised at Jamadoba Colliery on January 22, 2005 for all Safety Committee Members of the Colliery. The training programme focussed on two key aspects - identification of unsafe acts, unsafe practices and unsafe conditions, and the correct procedure of roof bolting and checking. Mr Barun Banerjee a safety expert and Manager (Safety), Jamadoba Colliery, highlighted issues related to it through his talk and shared his understanding with the employees.

Safety Quiz Competition

With a view to guaranteeing safety for all its employees, the Digwadih Colliery opted to add a fun element to its safety enhancement efforts by organising a safety quiz competition at the Colliery’s Conference Hall. Of the four teams that participated, the team comprising Anant Prakash and B D Mishra was adjudged winner. The event was also used as a platform for knowledge sharing and the audience was asked questions during the programme. The answers were distributed among all electrical personnel.

Annual Mine Safety Week

Tata Steel’s Opencast Mines, situated in West Bokaro, participated in the Annual Mine (Coal) Safety Week Competition - 2004 for the Ranchi-Kodarma region. All three mines of the Company have undertaken numerous modernisation initiatives and now flaunt a fresh new look. Modifications have been carried out with utmost attention to safety. Inspections for the Model Mines competition were conducted by the Model Mines Inspection Team, while that for the three Opencast Mines was carried out by a team from CCL Mines. The Division performed marvelously well winning a total of 12 prizes. The visiting inspection teams were visibly impressed by the safety standards maintained at Tata Steel’s mines.