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Tata Steel awarded worldsteel Safety and Health Excellence Recognition 2024 for Process Safety Management

National, October 16, 2024

~ Recognised for the Company’s online purging assistance model that eliminates risk of explosion in gas cleaning plant ~

~ Tata Steel had also bagged the worldsteel Safety and Heath Excellence Recognition 2023 for its real-time visualisation of risk movement ~

Tata Steel has received the World Steel Association (worldsteel) Safety and Health Excellence Recognition 2024 for its online purging assistance model that eliminates the risk of explosion in gas cleaning plant (GCP) area of blast furnace. Tata Steel is one of the six steel producers globally and the only one from India to win this prestigious worldsteel recognition this year.

For the worldsteel Safety and Health Excellence Recognition 2024, steel producers around the world were evaluated for delivering demonstrable improvements in safety and health under four broad categories - safety culture and leadership, occupational safety management, occupational health management, and process safety management.

Rajiv Mangal, Vice President, Safety, Health & Sustainability, Tata Steel, said: “Tata Steel accords the highest priority to the safety of its employees and stakeholders, and has been investing in latest technology and digital tools to ensure this. We are delighted that our efforts in this direction have been consistently recognised by worldsteel which further reaffirms our commitment to building a ‘zero harm’ company.”

Tata Steel’s new purging assistance model tracks real-time updates of the purging process through a set of remote-operated valves installed at strategic locations, and gas analysers installed at vents. A system of logic and interlocks has also been developed, enabling the operator to monitor and purge the entire gas line from the control room. This new model eliminates the risk of insufficient purging of the gas line due to the conventional manual tasks such as opening the nitrogen valve and taking gas measurements through vents.

In more specific terms, the model ensures zero high potential risk incident due to insufficient purging, around $215,000 savings per shutdown due to purging time reduction, a 50% reduction in purging time, and 100% safe shutdown and startup of the plant.

To achieve excellence in process safety management, Tata Steel has been leveraging digital technology to induce timely maintenance of Process Safety Critical Equipment, leading to reductions in failure of critical equipment. The Company has also established the Process Safety School of Excellence to improve the process safety competency of employees across all locations.

Tata Steel was also awarded worldsteel Safety and Health Excellence Recognition 2023 for elevating safety standards within the steel industry.

About worldsteel

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world, with members in every major steel-producing country. worldsteel represents steel producers, national and regional steel industry associations, and steel research institutes. Members represent around 85% of global steel production.

Disclaimer

Statements in this press release describing the Company’s performance may be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable securities laws and regulations. Actual results may differ materially from those directly or indirectly expressed, inferred or implied. Important factors that could make a difference to the Company’s operations include, among others, economic conditions affecting demand/ supply and price conditions in the domestic and overseas markets in which the Company operates, changes in or due to the environment, Government regulations, laws, statutes, judicial pronouncements and/ or other incidental factors.

For queries and information

Sarvesh Kumar,
Chief Corporate Communications, Tata Steel,
E-mail : sarvesh.kumar@tatasteel.com

About Tata Steel

  • Tata Steel group is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 35 million tonnes per annum.
  • It is one of the world's most geographically diversified steel producers, with operations and commercial presence across the world.
  • The group recorded a consolidated turnover of around US$27.7 billion in the financial year ending March 31, 2024.
  • A Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM organisation, Tata Steel Limited, together with its subsidiaries, associates, and joint ventures, is spread across five continents with an employee base of over 78,000.
  • Tata Steel has announced its major sustainability objectives including Net Zero by 2045.
  • The Company has been on a multi-year digital-enabled business transformation journey intending to be the leader in ‘Digital Steel making’. The Company has received the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse recognition for its Jamshedpur, Kalinganagar, and IJmuiden Plants. Tata Steel has also been recognised with the ‘Digital Enterprise of India – Steel’ Award 2024 by Economic Times CIO.
  • Tata Steel aspires to have a 20% diverse workforce by 2025. The Company has been recognised with the World Economic Forum’s Global Diversity Equity & Inclusion Lighthouse 2023.
  • The Company has been a part of the DJSI Emerging Markets Index since 2012 and has been consistently ranked among the top 10 steel companies in the DJSI Corporate Sustainability Assessment since 2016.
  • Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur Plant is India’s first site to receive ResponsibleSteelTM Certification. Subsequently, its Kalinganagar and Meramandali plants have also received the certification. In India, Tata Steel now has more than 90% of its steel production from ResponsibleSteelTM certified sites.
  • Received Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for 2016-17, 2024 Steel Sustainability Champion recognition from worldsteel for seven years in a row, 2023 Climate Change Leadership Award by CDP, Top performer in Iron and Steel sector in Dun & Bradstreet's India's top 500 companies 2022, Ranked as the 2024 most valuable Mining and Metals brand in India by Brand Finance, ‘Most Ethical Company’ award 2021 from Ethisphere Institute, and ‘Best Corporate for Promotion of Sports’ recognition at the Sportstar Aces Awards 2024.
  • Received the 2023 Global ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) Award of Distinction at the RIMS ERM Conference 2023, ‘Masters of Risk’ - Metals & Mining Sector recognition at The India Risk Management Awards for the eighth consecutive year, and ICSI Business Responsibility and Sustainability Award 2023 for its first Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR), Excellence in Financial Reporting FY20 from ICAI, among several others.

 

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