| Mumbai: Tata Power’s Power House - 6 located in Jamshedpur has initiated a safety sensitisation campaign for prevention of hand injuries. The safety sensitisation programme covers all employees including contract workforce, field engineers and supervisors.
The safety awareness campaign was initiated with a mass opening meeting at the Power House - 6 plant and a large number of contract workmen and company employees attended the session. A detailed sensitisation on the use of various types of hand gloves for different activities was explained by the safety team. Safety observation and site inspection was also done by the leadership team and free hand gloves were distributed to all concerned. All the attendees enthusiastically participated in the session.
Speaking on the occasion, PL Manjrekar, general manager, Jojobera, said, “Safety is of utmost importance to us and we believe that we should undertake a drive to make all aware about the ways to prevent such injuries from time to time. It is observed that hand injuries are the most common form of injury, therefore we decided to kick off the campaign focusing on hand safety.”
From the industrial safety perspective and as per the safety data analysis and results, it has been observed that large numbers of cases are related to hand injuries. Hand FAC cases constitute 60 per cent of the injuries, followed by legs (23 per cent) and face (9 per cent). |
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