Health, Security, Safety and Environment
SDIPL is committed to the principle that all occupational injuries and illnesses can be prevented and the management of HSSE has already defined the above which is an integral part of its responsibilities at all levels in the organisation.
SDIPL emphasises and considers them top priority, that employees, contractors or members of the public will not have a serious safety incident as a result of our business’ operations and activities.
SDIPL has a constant focus on the identification of high-risk activities and proactive mitigation of such hazards that could lead to fatalities and/or serious permanent disabilities. This is the mantra to prevent and sustainably avert serious safety incident, while conducting business across 22 circles involving more than 22,000 subcontractor personnel everyday.
As on March 31, 2022, SDIPL has achieved 0.162 LWCFR (Lost Workday Case Frequency Rate). Unfortunately, there were two serious safety incidents during the year under review. Your Company has conducted detailed accident investigation for each incident and has completed implementation of all identified immediate corrective/preventive measures. Actions identified as medium-and long-term mitigation measures have been progressively implemented and followed up with our principal contractor. Your Company is committed to comply with all HSSE related statutory and regulatory requirements and shall always strive to go beyond the minimum acceptable threshold of compliance with legal obligations. There were no notices nor non-compliance reports from authorities.
SDIPL’s HSSE management system is based on the Train Audit Guide & Govern (“TAGG”) strategy.
TAGG is primarily based on elements of training, auditing, guiding, governance, reporting, cross functional guidance and creation of safe work procedures which helps to sustainably implement HSSE management systems, embed improvement in performance whilst ensuring that all business-related activities remain systematic, effective and focused towards proactive reduction and mitigation of HSSE risks.
The delivery of customised learning, development and training sessions to our employees and contract workers have helped us in reinforcing key HSSE values and life-saving measures. We believe that increasing awareness on hazard identification and proactive risk mitigation will eventually build a sustained work environment that is rooted in safety. As on March 31, 2022, the Company has imparted 2,49,226 man-hours of training to our employees, contractors, and field personnel.
Focusing on high-risk mitigation, campaigns such as National Road Safety Month, World Environment Day, National Safety Week, were conducted across the country. Senior functional leaders of the Company and our prime contractor were trained on the Brookfield approach to safety and job safety planning in a series of training spread over four weeks/80 hours.
Your Company has launched a flagship customised employee training programme titled “Summit Safety Program (SSP)” in December 2021. With SSP, each Summit employee learns about the HSSE risks associated with his role, gets trained-assessed-certified on the required HSSE mitigation measures, thereby enabling safe work execution each and every time. As on March 31, 2022, six out of the eight courses have been delivered to all employees constituting over 1,115 manhours of training.
Your Company is continually focusing on availability, use and maintenance of compliant personal protective equipment (PPE), bikes and safety harnesses for the 12,000 strong field force under the aegis of the “Suraksha Kavach” campaign. Half yearly inspection and certification are been conducted.
SDIPL has implemented a comprehensive process of site HSSE inspection and assurance and has conducted 3,066 site inspections this year involving a 67 checkpoints pertaining to key HSSE risks checked at each site and integrated with 30 HSSE processes to systematically identify areas of improvement. Total of 16,469 unsafe acts and conditions were reported during these site inspections, of which, 13,159 (80%) have been monitored, followed up, validated and closed in a time bound manner with prime focus to implement corrective and preventive learnings across the network.
With an intent to drive proactive HSSE performance across circles, the Company has developed and launched a comprehensive safety scorecard from October 2021. The scorecard has leading and lagging parameters which objectively ascertain clear improvement areas and activities requiring attention. As on March 31, 2022, SDIPL’s safety scorecard stood at 71%.
HSSE governance has been working efficiently within the Company and also with our contractors. Weekly, fortnightly and monthly meetings are conducted for all the key stakeholders.
We believe that every person working for or on behalf of the Company needs to return home safely each day, every day, every time. In this context, HSSE processes pertaining to road transportation, selection of new offices, onboarding sharer activities, site visits, trainings, etc. have been implemented and are audited for quality assurance.
Protection of environment and natural resources is also a key priority for SDIPL. The focus is to reduce our carbon foot print and sustainably reduce the use of diesel generators, thereby conserving resources.
A focus on employee health in the era of COVID-19 has been a key management focus area. The Company has developed and implemented a Return to Normal Operations (RNO) process to ensure safe and secure business operations across the country. Your Company has also been releasing a weekly state wise COVID Risk Rating (CRR) score (based on the positivity rate for each state) and a COVID advisory bulletin for the benefit of employees and business operations.
