HSE Excellence Journey

Who we are: Essar Steel India Ltd., Hazira

HSE Policy & Systems

Essar Steel strongly believes in the saying

“Nothing is more important than the Safety & Health of people who work in the plant”

The foundation of our Strong HSE Management System are

•HSE Policy

•Safety Mandates – A Fatality Prevention Tool

•HSE Cardinal Rules

•HSE Code of Conduct

Directly emphasizing that HSE is at the center of our business planning,

designing and decision making process

Now let us witness our HSE Initiatives taken towards our Journey of HSE

Excellence over the past Five years and how we laid the foundation for

“Building a Sustainable Safe Culture at Essar Steel.”

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Essar Steel active member of WSA and Believes

WSA Principles

HSE Management Systems

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BRI T I SH SAF ET Y CO UNCI L F I VE

STAR RAT I NG SYST EM, UK

PRO CESS SAF ET Y MAN AG EMENT

SYST EM (PSM) I N L I NE W I T H

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HSE Governance

Level 1 – Online HSE Training:

• Online HSE Training for all Levels of employees

Level 2 – Class Room HSE Training

• Five days HSE Induction Training for new joiners (DET’s/ GETs/ MTs)

• Two days certified training for Laterals

Level 3 – Rotational Training:

Plant HSE Managers are pulled out for a period of 6 months in HSE and put through rigorous training.

They ensure the deliverables on Safety in their respective departments

Specific Training:

Specific Training imparted on various Risk Assessment methods, Electrical Safety, Work at Height,

Material Handling, Work Permit System, LOTO, Legal requirements, Behavioral Based Safety,

Environmental Legislation etc. by internal & external experts.

Defensive Driving Training (DDT) program is made compulsory for all the drivers to undergo

this program followed by on the road assessment.

Building Safety Competencies

Contractors’ HSE Management System

• Contractor Capability Assessment Carried Out With

Respect To HSE Requirements Prior To Award of

Contract and Post Award of Contract

• Ensuring Commitment and Compliance of our

Contractors in relation to our HSE Policy.

• HSE Directive for Penalty for Safety non-compliance &

accidents for contractors

• Monitored Contractors’ HSE Performance through:

– Half-yearly Contractors HSE Performance Audit

– Conducting tripartite meeting for Contractors’

– Conducting Bi-Monthly HSE Communication meet

– HSE Induction movie introduced for Contractor

Workers

• Mandatory Competency Assessment for Safety Critical

Jobs (e.g. Crane Operators, Riggers, Working at Height

etc.)

• 1 Day Certified HSE Induction Training for Contractor Employees

• Competency Assessment & Certified Crane Operator Training

• Competency Assessment & Certified Rigger Training

• Competency Assessment & Certified Work at Height Training

16 days On the Job Safety Induction Training for contractors after Screening & Selection

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Sr. Description Period

1 Classroom Induction training as per the departmental Module.

1 Day Do’s and Don’ts of their plant premises

Brief about Past incidents happened in the plant

2 Site visits as per the departmental module

3 Days Work at Height Training

Confined Space entry training

3 HIRAC, SOPs, SMPs, Awareness

2 Days

Emergency Preparedness for respective Plant

Safety Mandates & Work Permit System

Interaction with Area In charge/ HOD before deputation to on the job training.

HSE Directive for Penalty - Safety Non-compliance

4 On Job training in the department

a. Class Room 3 Days

b. Site Visit 7 Days

Implementation of Behaviour Based Safety Journey

• BBS Workshops to the Senior Leadership Team

• Formation of BBS Steering Committee

• Organized special Batches of BBS training to the company employees

• Identified department wise BBS Lead Trainers - 150 No's

• Launched Online Web-portal for Behavior Based Safety (BBS)

• BBS committees for developing BBS Observers

• BBS committee for Contractor developing Contractor Observers

• BBS Supporting Team for Promoting BBS through Displaying BBS Signages

/ BBS Stickers / Caps.

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Online Web-portal for Behavior Based Safety (BBS)

Implementation of Process Safety Management System

• PSM Workshop to the Senior Leadership Team & Company Employees

• Formation of PSM CELL- Headed by Director of Facility & VP & Head, HSE

• Apex Team – To lead the PSM elements.

• PSM Core Operating team and sub-committees in each department for Continuous

improvement.

• PSM ROADMAP

• Launched Online PSM Portal, PSM Library, Mangement of Change

• PSM Guidelines Rolled out

• PSM Elements incorporated in our Standard Operating Procedures

• Screening of PSM Video Films across the Facility

• Internal Self-Assessment & Cross Functional Audit of all PSM elements in respective

departments by Core PSM Members.

• External Audit of PSM to assess our PSM Implementation & Improvement areas

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Launched On line PSM Portal, PSM Library, MOC

2010 Audit Outcome – Average score – 55% ,

2014 Audit Outcome – Average score – 92%

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Third Party Audit by M/s Cholamandalam Ltd in the year- 2010

& M/s Prosafe Pvt Ltd in the year- 2014.

Graph Depicts the Increasing trend of PSM Culture.

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Safety Index - A Strategic Business Leadership Tool To

Measure The Real Time Safety Performance

Safety Index - A stringent tool for measuring and monitoring Safety Performance of

respective departments (Composite Index of Leading & Lagging Indicators) Minimum

Level for Safety Index is 95% for Individual department.

The Departments who have achieved less then 95% Safety Index are considered as

nonperformer for the particular month.

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• The Implementation of Safety Index helped us to establish interdependent

Safety Culture and resulted drastic reduction in LTI, MTC, FAC in the year 2014,

2015 and 2016.

Graph Depicts Continual Improvement of Safety Index

World Steel Board Press Release

Safety & Health Recognition - 2014 Essar Steel - Ranked - 3rd in overall Safety Performance

Essar Steel is the 5th organisation in the World who

received 2nd time WSA Recognition in last 5 years.

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Essar Steel has been selected for Worldsteel Safety

Excellence Recognition - 2015 in “Safety Leadership”.

World Steel Safety & Health Recognition - 2015

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Essar Steel India Ltd., won

Safety Innovation Award - 2016

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“Ispat Suraksha Puraskar Award – 2017 for “No Fatal

Accident during the Calendar Year - 2016”

Set a New Safety World Record

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Essar Steel set a New Safety World Record by achieving Lowest

LTIFR (Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate) to 0.11

LTI FR is a major Social Indicator under the sustainability

Reporting of Businesses.