Thursday, 26 September 2019

#NIFS - Safety is still a slogan in many Industries Article By Dr. Yashoda Tammineni, HOD, HSE Dept.

The accidents have become a common call since ages in all the industries. The outbreak of industrial fire or other accidents has become a common phenomenon to the civilians in spite of so much counseling and practical oriented training.

In fact, Safety slogans provide powerful messages and reminders to provide a creative approach for informing others about safety rules, tips, and procedures in a way that is easy to recognize and remember but it still holds true that the industries are only exhibiting safety posters and safety slogans but they are not taking real care of safety measures. It is greatly needed to assess any safety issues and unsafe habits, and determine potential hazards. Think about what can be done to correct those dangers and take the necessary safety and prevention measures.



If we consider HPCL, Visakhapatnam as a case study in 1997 major accident broke which had taken about 60 lives. After this major disaster, the corporate company announced several precautionary measures to control the fire accidents but there was a blast again in the cooling tower on August 24, 2013, and another explosion on 29 July 2017 in HPCL. These incidences that are occurring time and again are causing anxiety, insecurity, and displeasure among the public in general and employees of the organization in particular. Several incidences in other districts like fire accident at Hetro drugs, Nakkapalli unit and in Heritage Company and the recent fire accident on the tug of Vizag port are all of deep concern and alarming.

These incidences are throwing a continuous challenge to the fire fitting units as well as the corporate administrations to prevent or to eradicate the human and property loss. The government, management and the technical experts related to the industries have to step into the actions to control these incidences. The suggestive measures are that the knowledge of fire fighting and control measures should be widely spread among the public as well as the workers at the workplace. Secondly, we need to import and innovate alternative methods to control these accidents.


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