SAFETY AT GLANCE

POWER DIVISION

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• OHSAS 18001 is a British Standard for
occupational health and safety
management systems. It exists to help all
kinds of organizations put in place
demonstrably sound occupational health
and safety performance. It is widely seen
as the world’s most recognized
occupational health and safety
management systems standard

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• Who Created OHSAS?

OHSAS 18001 was created via a

concerted effort from a number of the
worlds leading national standards bodies,
certification bodies, and specialist
consultancies. A main driver for this was to
try to remove confusion in the workplace
from the proliferation of certifiable OH&S
specifications.

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AGENDA • OHSAS18001:2007
• Basic safety measures.
Make people
aware of the • Severity index monitoring.
systems followed • Contract document for safety.
in Power Division • Key Performance Indicators.
to manage safety – Near miss closure.
at site. – Observations closure.
– LTIF
– Frequency Rate.
• Incident Classifications.
• Statutory Compliances.
– Medical Examinations.
– Legatrix.
• Guidelines for safety.
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 WHAT IS OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTM?

The system aims to guide an

organization to establish a
comprehensive frame work for
occupational health and safety
policy, setting up objectives
and to assess effectiveness
the management system

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 PURPOSE OF OSHAS 18001?

The purpose is to help organizations to

manage & control their Occupational
Health & Safety risks and to improve
their OH&S performance.

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 OHSAS 18001: 2007
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
AND SAFETY ASSESMENT
SERIES

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 THE PDCA METHODOLOGY
 The PDCA methodology is used to
organize
OHSAS 18001 in the following way:

 PLAN- Clause 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 expect

you
to plan the establishment of your
OHSMS.
 DO - Clause 4.4 expects you to
implement your OHSMS.
 CHECK - Clause 4.5 and 4.6 expect
you to monitor, measure, and report on
the performance of your OHSMS.
 ACT - Clause 4.5 and 4.6 expect you to
improve your OHSMS

Develop, Document, Implement , Maintain

4.1 - GENERAL 
& Improve OHSMS in accordance with
REQUIREMENTS OHSAS 18001.
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 4.2 - OH&S POLICY
 Clearly states overall OH&S objectives
 Authorised by top management
 Appropriate to nature & scale of OH&S risks
 Documented, implemented, and maintained
 Communicated to all employees
 Available to interested parties
 Reviewed periodically

OH&S POLICY COMMITMENTS

 Improve health & safety performance
 Continual improvement
 Comply with OH&S legal and other requirements

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 4.3 - OH&S PLANNING
 Hazard identification, risk assessment,
and risk control.
 Legal and other requirements
 Objectives
 OH&S management program(s)

4.3.1 HAZARD IDENTIFICATION, RISK ASSESSMENT AND

DETERMINING CONTROLS
 Identification of hazards
 Evaluation of risks under current
controls
 Evaluation of the tolerability of
residual risk
 Identification of needed additional
controls
 Significant risks must be controlled
 Individual behaviour is a significant
factor.
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To be referred before start of any
 HIRA

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 4.3.2 LEGAL AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS

 Ensure there is a system for keeping up-to-

date with legal changes
 Legatrix is being used for monitoring of
legal compliance at sites.

4.3.3 OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMME(S)

 Near miss closure.
 Lost time injury frequency of 0.25 or less.
 Zero Fatality
 Training of 3.5 Man days per person to
Thermax employees.
 Management program formulation and
execution to mitigate the hazards identified
at sites.
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4.4 IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION
4.4.1 RESOURCES, ROLES, RESPONSIBILITY,
ACCOUNTABILITY AND AUTHORITY

 Responsibility and authority for achieving

the objectives has been given in the
procedure P04.
 Organisation Chart has to be displayed at
site.
4.4.2 COMPETENCE, TRAINING AND
AWARENESS  Evaluate the competency required
to complete the job safely.
 Identify the gap.
 Plan training as per the calendar
every month.
 Include the persons with identified
gap in training.
 Measure the competency level after
the training. (written test)
 Safety Induction of new joiners
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 4.4.3 COMMUNICATION, PARTICIPATION & CONSULTATION

 Tool box talks before start of activity to

communicate the hazards identify the hazards
identified in HIRA before the activity.
 Safety Committee meetings.
 Mass tool box talks every fortnight.
 To reward the performers.
 Get feed back from labours
 Communicate about the safety &health
requirements.
4.4.4 DOCUMENTATION &
4.4.5 CONTROL OF DOCUMENTS
 Documents Management in their latest format.

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 4.4.6 OPERATIONAL CONTROL

 Plan to control operations and

activities associated with identified
risks
 Linked to HIRA for significant
hazards.
 Procedures to used for training on
activity and displayed at work place for
awareness.
4.4.7 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND
 Common manual is available for all
RESPONSE the sites.
 Manual to be customised as per
applicable emergencies.
 Identifying the Emergency Response
Team.
 Displaying emergency contacts.
 Practicing emergencies through
mock drills periodically and
corrections of flaws.
 Responding to incidents and
emergencies when they occur as
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 4.5 CHECKING
4.5.1 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT & MONITORING
 Monitoring the achievement of
objectives
 Quantitative and Qualitative measures
 MIS report.
 SSIR.
 BSS.
 Legal Compliance.
 Effectiveness of OCP and document
control.

4.5.2 EVALUATION OF COMPLIANCE

 Each Legal requirement is converted into a

task in Legatrix.
 Each task is to be complied within the planned
dates.

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 4.5.3 INCIDENT INVESTIGATION, NONCONFORMITY,
CORRECTIVE ACTION & PREVENTIVE ACTION
 Handling & investigating accidents, incidents and
non-conformances.
 Identifying the root causes.
 Taking action on root cause to mitigate
consequences
 Ensuring preventive actions are taken
 Eliminate or control root cause identified.

4.5.4 CONTROL OF RECORDS

 Records are to be maintained at site.

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 4.5.5 INTERNAL AUDIT

Internal audit determines ,

 Every Six months.

 If it has been implemented and
maintained properly
 Conducted by trained internal
auditors.
 Plan is to be prepared based on the
calendar.

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 4.6 MANAGEMENT REVIEW

 Top management will review the organization’s

OH&S management system, at planned intervals,
to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and
effectiveness.

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 Basic Safety Measures
• Objective:
Monitor compliance to Basic safety measures
necessary to maintain safe work place.
• Methodology.
1. 40 basic safety measures are tracked for
compliance by each contractor every month.
2. Compliance date is expected for every non
compliance with each report.
• Present Status
Compliance to basic safety measure 98 %

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 Severity Index Monitoring
• Objective:
Monitor severity of violations and recorded at site on
weekly basis.
• Methodology.
1. Violations are categorized into 5 categories.
2. Workers following safety practices and those violating
are counted.
3. Severity is calculated from 1 to 4 & 5.
4. Present Status
Current average for all the sites is 2.38. This indicates
poor house keeping and tends to reach procedure
violations.
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 Incident Classifications.
• Lost Time Injury:
Definition: it is said to have occurred when a person due to an injury
fails to report to his work for next 48 hours extending beyond the day
of shift he was working.
• First Aid Case:
Definition: It is said to have occurred when injured is able to join to
his duty after the medical treatment on the same day or within some
hours.
• Near miss:
Definition: Any incident that does not result in any injury to humans
or in property damage.
Any Near miss is a warning for a major accident in future. All near
miss are to be recorded and investigated to avoid major accidents in
future.

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 Incident Classifications.
• Medical Treatment Case:
Definition: It is said to have occurred when a person due to an injury
is not able to attend to his duty, the period for which is not greater
than 48 hours or turns to a lost time injury.
• Fatal Accident :
Definition: An accident resulting in loss of life.

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What’s the Difference Between Potential Incidents, Near
Misses and Actual Accidents ?

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Potential Incident Near Miss Injury Accident

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 Key Performance Indicators
• LTIF – Lost Time Injury Frequency
Definition: Number of injuries recorded for every million man hours
worked
• SR – Severity Rate.
Definition: Man days lost for every million man-hours worked.
• Near miss
• Definition: Number of near miss recorded for every incident
occurred at site including first aid cases.
• Training at site
on safety & technical subject

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 SAFETY GOALS FOR FY 2018-19.

• Lost Time Injury frequency (LTIF)

< 0.25

• Fatality – 0 ( Zero)

• Near miss & observation reporting

• Training – 3.5 Man days per person/

year
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 Statutory Compliances.
• Statutory Compliance Score Card.
Objective: Monitor compliance of each contractor with statutory
requirements. Improve the compliance to reduce risk of non
compliance.
• Medical Examination.
Benefits:
1. Medically fit workers are working at site.
2. No loss of productivity due to spread of communicable disease.
3. No incidents due to medically unfit person working at site.
• Legatrix. - Software
Objective: Monitor and facilitate compliance of each contractor with
all applicable statutory requirements.

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 GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY
• Safety contract document.
• Thermax Safety Manual.

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 LABOUR COLONEY- OHSAS
REQUIRMENTS

 Clean, hygienic rooms and surroundings.

 Secured and Weather proof hutments.
 Lavatory arrangement.
 Drinking water availability.
 Electricity with safe connections.
 Protection from insects and snakes.
 Area lighting.
 Medical and first aid facilities.

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 Corporate safety guidelines

1. Heavy lift After sunset not allowed & management directive in this
regard already circulated.

2. Some activities of Critical nature if needs to perform in night than

permission from the BU Head is must.

3. Site prepared sling is banned in Thermax

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 Housekeeping

• Everybody responsible for good

housekeeping at sites

• To achieve this regular basis dedicated

manpower must be deployed as per quantum
of work

• Regular shifting of trash, cut pieces to

identified location.

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• Thank you