Occupational Health & Safety

All units in ITC have established EHS management systems with designated responsibilities, competent resources, best-in-class infrastructure, state-of-the-art fire detection & protection systems and the latest electrical equipment, etc. to achieve benchmarked performance in safety.

Employee involvement through participation in suggestions schemes, holding EHS events and EHS Training have helped develop and maintain a safety culture across the organisation.

Our units also engage in proactive risk assessment techniques to identify potential hazards and implement risk control measures to eliminate/reduce risks.

Corporate EHS experts review new projects/expansion plans and conduct comprehensive audits before commissioning projects to ensure compliance.

Although the Indian Factories Act/Rules, which is aligned with the requirements of ILO, is comprehensive and encompasses all requirements for a safe and healthy work environment, we collaborated with National Safety Council of India to develop our own Corporate EHS Guidelines, which are far more stringent than the Indian legislation and include international standards and best practices.

A comprehensive incidents/accidents reporting system has been established at every unit. All accidents and incidents are thoroughly investigated to identify the root cause and initiate corrective and preventive measures.

The findings and recommendations are discussed at the safety committee meetings and circulated to all Departments for implementation.

In 2008-09, our focus on providing a safe work environment yielded positive results with lost time accidents reduced by 25%, injury rate by a third, lost day rate by 11.4%.

Effective implementation of excellent safety standards resulted in zero fatality in 2008-09.