We have an unwavering commitment to ensure the maintenance of a safe workplace. Over the years, we have implemented comprehensive safety practices as per industry best standards and regulatory requirements, ensuring our workforce is empowered and protected. We do this by fostering a culture of safety where it is ingrained in every aspect of our work. All our employees and workers, from the shop floor to the c-suite, prioritise safety and health.
Our vision is to be a zero injury organisation where everyone goes home safe everyday, everywhere. Our safety and health policy outlines our commitment and it applies to all our stakeholders such as employees, workers and their representatives, business associates, processors, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, transporters, customers, and visitors. It applies to all our business units, functions, the entities we own and the entities in which we own a majority interest. Across our diverse and extended supply chain, we prefer suppliers and business partners to have similar policies and practices and include relevant expectations in our contracts with them.
We meet, and even strive to exceed, the requirements of safety and health laws applicable in the countries where we operate. All our manufacturing sites are ISO 45001 certified. We train, encourage, and empower all employees, workers and other stakeholders to participate in and add value to our safety and health management programmes. We have established systems for appropriate dissemination of information and periodic consultation on safety and health from our stakeholders.
We regularly identify and evaluate safety and health hazards and risks in all our operations. We continually implement risk reduction programmes to reduce hazards and risks associated with our operations. We engage with external agencies, experts, and peer organisations to share learnings and best practices and continually improve our safety performance. In line with our vision and commitment, we have set annual quantitative goals for safety and health. We review these periodically to ensure that these are being met at the individual site and business levels. We have established Safety and Health (S&H) reporting system to regularly report mandatory Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), incidents, accidents, and near misses in line with internal and legal reporting requirements. The Board-level ESG committee oversees GCPL’s safety and health performance against annual quantitative targets. Moreover, all members of the our Management Committee are responsible for implementing this policy within their respective areas of operation. They are also accountable for ensuring that necessary resources are available to implement the required health and safety standards and ensure their compliance.
By 2027, we aim –
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Our safety and health framework encompasses fostering a culture of safety awareness, conducting thorough hazard identification and risk assessments, implementing robust risk mitigation measures, and maintaining a focus on continual improvement, loss prevention, accident investigation, emergency management, health, and hygiene, as well as utilising safety performance measurement tools. Our initiatives include –
Safety and health management system
We have a detailed safety & health management system (SHMS) which is based on recognised standards such as ISO 45001. In addition to it, company's safety and health management system (SHMS) covers all the legal requirements pertaining to companies operations. SHMS system covers all site operations, employees, contractors & other stakeholder associated with sites' operations.
OHS risk assessment
We follow Hazard identification & risk assessment (HIRA) process based on ISO 45001 standard. We use specific techniques such as HAZOP, QRA for specific operations and risk. Employees, contractor and all other stakeholder takes part in HIRA process. We have a trained team to carry out HIRA for all our site operations. All non-routine activities are controlled through a strong work permit system. We ensure any new project or any change in terms of infrastructure, system or people goes through a detailed assessment for safety & health risk assessment.
Prioritization and integration of action plans
We have identified and created a list of significant risk and named it as "Critical To Safety". We craft a detailed action plan to mitigate these risk at all sites review its status up to board level.
Emergency response
We have established emergency preparedness response framework that establishes the process to identify and respond to emergencies that have the potential to disrupt operations and pose safety risk.
Progress against targets and internal inspections
To gauge the effectiveness and comprehensiveness of our OHS management system and progress against our targets, we have introduced an innovative assessment and scoring matrix. Furthermore, we have established a well-defined and measurable internal and external audit system. This process enables us to identify best practices and uncover opportunities for enhancement, thereby contributing to the continuous improvement of our health and safety initiatives against our targets.
External verification
All our manufacturing sites of are ISO 45001 certified.
Investigation procedures
We have several reporting mechanisms such as a mobile base reporting app named as I Safe, Safety suggestion box, and hazard register. Employees and workers can also report any hazard through their safety committee representative. All sites of our sites have safety committee with equal representation from workers and contractors. We also check effectiveness of hazard reporting system and safety committee effectiveness through SHMS evaluation system. Our safety policy gives right to all employee, contractor and stake holder freedom to take appropriate actions to save themself from any hazard arising out of company work related activities.
OHS trainings
People are the key to build a strong safety culture and as a company we should strive to connect each and every employee by using innovative ways like hands on trainings, skits and safety competitions. We have focused on improving safety awareness among all employees and contractual workforce. We arrange over 300 safety training programmes across plants and cover over 1,15,000 employees and contractual workforce every year.
OHS in value chain
Health and safety criteria is a part of our procurement and contractual requirements and also part of our sustainable procurement policy.