Safety Procedure to be followed
- Special safety precautions to be taken by the contractor personnel working in an operating process plant detailed as below. The safety procedure may undergo a change from time to time, which will be intimated to the contractor and shall follow the updated safety precautions.
- In addition to the following minimum safety requirements, the contractor must comply with the safety requirements, norms, rules and regulations as per the Factories Act 1948 and state rules, ILO’s (International Labor Organization) as published hand book titled “Safety and Health in Building and Civil Engineering”.
- The contractor must prepare his own detailed “Safety Programme” and submit it to CLIENT/OWNER’s Safety Officer immediately after the finalization of contract / placing of LOI / order. This will include HSE Policy, Safety Responsibilities at various levels, Formations of Safety Committees and meetings, Method statements, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Safety inspections, various pre-inspection checklists, Safety manuals, HSE Audits, Emergency Plans, Safety procedures to be implemented for all the activities, deputation of Safety Officers, enforcement of safety practices, compensation in case of accidents, Life Insurance and ESI coverage as per the Labor Laws for contractor’s employees etc.
- Contractor shall develop a systematic procedure on an Accident Reporting. All accidents at construction site even including Near Misses and property damages shall be reported immediately as per the Accident Reporting Procedure. All Accidents including Near Misses to be communicated immediately to Owner over telephone / verbally / and later submit the accident report. All accidents must be investigated, classified and analyzed. Monthly Accident statistics must be developed and circulated. Contractor shall maintain a category wise register of all such accidents.
- Before the mobilization of the equipment’s, machines, tools, tackles etc. by the contractor, they must be inspected at the site from where they are being mobilized. Damaged ones should be discarded and be ensured they may not be mobilized at CLIENT/OWNER site. The necessary statutory checks, inspections and certification is to be provided before mobilizing at CLIENT/OWNER site.
- A Safety Committee must be formed to discuss any accidents, Unsafe Acts and Unsafe conditions. This should be chaired by the Safety Manager / Site-Charge with equal participation both from supervisory and non-supervisory cadres of employees. Safety officer of CLIENT/OWNER also should be involved in such meetings. The frequency of meetings shall be once in a month minimum and actions taken to avoid recurrence of Near miss, Minor injuries etc and during the meeting client safety policy to me made aware to every participant.
Circular of the meeting must also be issued to Owner / CONSULTANT at least one week in advance.
Minutes of the safety meetings shall be prepared on the same day and to be submitted on next day
of the meeting.
The contractor shall take all safety precautions during the execution of the construction work and shall maintain safe working condition and leave the site safe at all times.
- HSE Audits to be conducted once in three months by a team of Senior Officials of the contractor. Report on findings of such Audit to be submitted to the owner / CONSULTANT and compliance report of the suggestions on findings to be submitted weekly to owner /CONSULTANT.
- Method statement along with Job Safety Analysis to be submitted in advance before starting of
any activity.
- The contractor shall provide suitable lights, guards, fencing, warning sign, caution boards for safety point of view or for vigilance as and where necessary or as required by the Site-incharge. The caution boards with appropriate symbols shall be visible during night also.
- Adequate lighting facilities, including emergency lighting, such as floodlights, hand lights and area lighting shall be provided at the construction site for maintaining safety and vigilance.
- Smoking and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the work site / offices.
- Radiography source and other Explosives used for controlled blasting will not be permitted to
be stored at construction site.