Safety First newsletter - Edition #6
British Safety Council India
No one should be injured or made ill through their work.
We bring to you the sixth edition of our Safety First newsletter! In this edition, we explore crucial safety insights, highlighting initiatives specific to India, along with important health, safety, and wellbeing statistics. Let's continue our collective efforts toward creating a safer workplace.
Safety Management India
The world was gripped recently by the amazing rescue of 41 miners who had been trapped for 17 days in a tunnel in Uttarakhand.
Our feature on pages 12 to 15 explores the causes and implications of the incident for the Indian construction and mining industries and Government. It is perhaps ironic that the project was originally dedicated to thousands of victims of the 2013 Uttarakhand floods and intended as a safer, weatherproof road network for pilgrims. Experts say it was being built through a geological fault and that no environmental impact assessment had been carried out. There were also no escape routes, despite government guidelines recommending emergency exits for tunnels longer than 1.5km. Plans are now underway to resume construction, though it is unclear when a safety review will be carried out.
On pages 16 to 19, our other India feature looks at the millions of women who make their living rolling cigarettes made from tendu leaves and a pinch of tobacco, known as beedi. India’s informal beedi industry is said to employ over seven million workers, around five million of whom are believed to be women employed by small contractors to make beedis at home for low wages. Inhaling huge amounts of tobacco dust and sitting in the same position for eight to 10 hours a day often leads to them developing serious health problems.
Elsewhere in this month’s magazine, on pages 20 to 23, we look at the worrying trend of UK shop workers having to contend with ever increasing levels of theft, violence and abuse, much of which is organised, and gang related. Can the use of body-worn cameras be a game-changer?
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Stephen Cooke
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