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Approach towards Social Development
  • Leadership & Policy Support:
    The management has adopted the Article of Association on social responsibility. A draft social policy has been released during the reporting period, for implementation.
      
  • Strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility:
    The Company has annual programmes as per the Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) Guidelines. The company has a matrix of its competencies stating the exact possibilities for action.
       
  • Allocating resources & system of accounting:
    The Company recognizes that social expenditure is a developmental cost and records it under a separate account head. Social expenses are distinct from employee welfare.
       
  • Assigning key responsibilities:
    The management has key persons deployed for this work and its management representative has annual goals by means of KRAs.
       
  • Communication strategy:
    To keep employees and public at large informed about company’s work on social responsibility, the company publishes its reports through newsletters, in-house magazines and the Directors’ Annual Report.
       
  • Volunteering:
    The Company has instituted a scheme for encouraging volunteers.
      
  • Documentation:
    The Company documents its work methodically.

Tata Steel’s subscribes to Tata Council for Community Initiatives guidelines. The declaration of the Council on social responsibility made on 14.12.99 is presented below.

  • The Community is central to the core values we adhere to in the Tata Group.
  • Tata Community programmes aim at building trust and improving the quality of life.
  • Tata programmes facilitate sustainable change.
  • We believe that community gives us valuable opportunities to learn.
  • Commitment to social responsibility is explicit in every Tata Company.
  • We network through our core competence to empower communities.
  • Tata volunteers are committed to the spirit of service.
Internal & External Audit Systems

Internal and external audits are carried out for the following functions. The management structure and the agencies that carry out such audits are briefly described in Section 3.6. The organization carries out at pre-defined intervals the internal & external audits for Finance; ISO-14001 Audit; OHSAS-18001 Audit; TBEM Audit; half yearly and yearly respectively and Social Audit once in ten years.

3.20 Management systems certification status

All units of Tata Steel are ISO-14001 certified. Units, which cater to the requirement of external customers like Rolling Mills, Mines, Bearing Division are certified to ISO-9001-2000 and other departments/sections, (upstream production & service units) which have internal customer focus, are certified to TS-13004 equivalent to ISO-9001. During the reporting period, Tubes Division & Sukinda Chrome Mines had been certified to OHSAS-18001. In other units including Steel Works implementation of OHSAS-18001 and SA-8000 standards are in advance stages of certification. Certification shall be completed by December 2004.
  

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