We protect our interests. Which happens to be our people.
Health and Safety has always been an overarching value for Ambuja. The company believes that a safe workplace is a basic necessity for all workers. However, creating a healthy and safe environment is a transformational journey, on which we have made significant progress. Through the overarching program of ‘We Care’, Ambuja covers all stakeholders and drives H&S improvements. This program is encapsulated in a single-minded goal of ‘Zero Harm’
"We Care’ is an umbrella initiative which covers all stakeholders and continues to drive H&S improvements since 2014, and its impact on-ground has shown visible results. The program has played a pivotal role in transforming Ambuja Cement’s operations as well as attitudes towards Health and Safety.
To achieve the goal of Zero Harm, we focused on participation, involvement and engagement of our people. Greater emphasis was given to sensitising people on safe behaviour, training, capability building on risk assessment and reward and recognition schemes to encourage teams as well as individuals for their contribution in H&S improvements.
As part of developing an effective Health & Safety Improvement Plan (HSIP) for 2016, six strategic objectives were identified: Fatality Prevention Control, Lead to Create a Healthy and Safe Environment, H&S Management Systems, People Capability, Effective Execution, and Road Safety. This strategy has enabled the company to establish systems and processes to clearly understand risks, implement risk mitigation processes, learn from previous incidents, and encourage safe behavior.
In order to set the bar increasingly higher, all the manufacturing units of Ambuja are certified as per the OHSAS 18001 World Standard.