Cement Energy and Environment

8. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA Criteria Parameters Incident Reporting 06 nos. OHS Rates 02 nos. OHS Activities 05 nos. Training 03 nos. Continual Improvement 08 nos. Total 24 nos. Monthly data collection, tracking, monitoring, measuring and consolidation is a routine activity to be conducted by Corporate OHS team in the financial year. Immediately after closing of the financial year, OHS Team engages itself in analyzing the data for the entire year so as to bring visibility on comparative trends and best performer among equals. The final assessment will be validated by the jury members, which comprises of the Apex Safety Committee member under the chairmanship of CEO to ensure an unbiased assessment and benchmarking of OHS excellence 8.1 Incident Reporting Total weightage: 34 the relationship between safety performance and duration of work. 8.3 OHS Activities: Total weightage: 20 OHS activities include the Tool box talk, National Safety Week, World Environment day, Mock drills and OHS meetings. This measurement gives relationship between OHS activities and OHS performance to promote the healthy and safe culture for OHS improvement at each operation of the business units. 8.4 Training: Total weightage: 15 The purpose of this parameter is to create awareness of OHS requirements of the plant for new employees, contract workers, company employees to facilitate adherence to the OHS system. 8.5 Continual Improvement: Total weightage: 21 Corporate OHS team would enable continual improvement programs to be identified, tracked, monitored as well as reported. Enhance participation across all level. Ease of communication and sharing which enable people to be continually in touch with each other. Standardize checklist for product and process to The purpose of these criteria is to trail current be available to bring uniformity of audits as well as indicators, which enable the understanding of the knowledge of the people working in these areas. effectiveness of the safety efforts underway at an operation. Such interactions serve not only as a way to prevent injuries, but also as a way of continuously improving productivity and quality in business units. The strong operating discipline that is required to create a safety culture is needed to drive world-class performance in productivity 9. LONG TERM BENEFITS EXPECTED The challenge of making an assessment would have the following substantial long term benefits: • chance to find out "how good the plant really is" by being measured against framework ; and quality. Employing this discipline can have a • opportunity to receive feedback on the plant- huge human, social and financial impact on employees, customers and shareholders. 8.2 OHS Rates: Total weightage : 10 The rates are necessary to identify the groups at highest risks and to monitor safety performance at the workplace over the period and to establish both strengths and areas for improvement ; • help to demonstrate the plants " where they are "ahead of the game" and where they still have "ground to make up"; • chance to learn from others good practices; • opportunity for winners to gain recognition. 32