Environmental & Social programs for contractors

Stringent procedures have been detailed under ISO14001 and works safety policy guidelines for contractors, including strong punitive actions for defaulters. Such norms and guidelines are communicated to all the contractors in many forums. Top Management like Chairman, General Safety Committee, General Managers, Chief of Supply Chain Division and other Senior Executives of Tata Steel also discuss these with them. Not only this, all new “entrants” from the contractors are taken through a Safety and Environment Induction training without which gate passes are not issued to them for working inside the Works premises. The procedures for monitoring of contractor/supplier compliance with Labour Laws during the reporting period are given below;

Procedure for monitoring contractor/supplier compliance with labour laws
Stage of monitoring of compliance    Adherence to the laws of the land  Frequency
During Vendor Registration Sales Tax Registration Number (State & Central), Provident Fund Code (for all service providers), Excise Registration Number, PAN Number, Employees State Insurance At Registration stage for vendors (both for suppliers and contractors)
During dealing with Tata Steel
  • Vehicle registration papers, road tax papers, driving license for drivers & Pollution Under Check Certificate
  • Non submission of Excise Duty Gate Passes
  • Specific cases of violation as pointed out by Provident Fund Commissioner, Income Tax Authorities, Sales Tax Authorities and Excise Authorities, Police etc
  • Checking all the cases, all the time and for all vendors
  • Deduction from pending bills/running Bills for non-submission of ED gate pass
  • Random checks by Security/ Departments for vehicles plying to and from works

  • Deduction by Accounts for specific cases
  • Details furnished on case to case basis on demand
  • Handled only as exceptions

  • At Invoice Verification stage
   
Product & Services Stewardship Initiatives

All Units of Tata Steel are certified to ISO-9000 and ISO-14001. Life Cycle Assessment is carried out from cradle to gate (from mining to HR coils) to systematically analyse the inputs and outputs, which can have adverse impact on environment and society. Targets are set as a part of annual business plan to continually improve the environmental and social impacts of our products, services and activities through better operating practices and technological intervention. In the downstream operations (supply of steel to stock yard and customers) Tata Steel recycles the wooden and structural supports used during shipment.

3.17 Addressing indirect impacts of our activities

Tata Code of Conduct defines the approach to managing impacts resulting from its activities in Clause#1 under National Interest.

“A Tata Company shall be committed in all its actions to benefit the economic development of the countries in which it operates and shall not engage in any activity that would adversely affect such objective. It shall not undertake any project or activity to the detriment of the Nation’s interests or those that will have any adverse impact on the social and cultural life patterns of its citizens. A Tata Company shall conduct its business affairs in accordance with the economic, development and foreign policies, objectives and priorities of the Nation’s government and shall strive to make a positive contribution to the achievement of such goals at the international, national and regional level as appropriate”.

In keeping with the Code, Tata Steel strives to adopt state-of-the-art preventive measures and where required shall appropriately address any impacts.

3.18 Major changes during the reporting period

During the year, up-gradation of “F” Blast Furnace from production capacity of 0.6 million tonne per annum to 1.0 million tonne per annum was completed. The furnace volume was changed from 1392 cubic meter to 1587 cubic meter in just 105 days at a total expenditure of Rs.2.0 billion. The installation of electrolytic cleaning line of capacity 500,000 tpa in Cold Rolling Mill complex to improve cold rolled sheet quality was completed during reporting period. The details of mergers/acquisition/closures are furnished in Section-2 under 2.14.
  

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