Safety awards for oil industry
Updated: Aug 05, 2015 11:59:11am
New Delhi, August 5 (KNN) Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan presented Oil Industry Safety Awards” for the year 2013-14 to the Chief Executives of the Winning Oil & Gas organizations in a ceremony organised by Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD) here on Tuesday.
To encourage outstanding safety performance of the industry and to inculcate a positive culture of competitiveness among the industry members, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas introduced a system of Oil Industry Safety Awards in the year 1987.
The coveted Oil Industry Safety Awards are presented to those organisations which achieved ‘exceptional safety performance’.
The criteria for selection of these awards is based on various parameters like complexity of the facility, risk factor, volumes handled, safety management system and accident free-man-hours.
Congratulating the award winners, Pradhan urged the Industry members to strive towards achieving the ultimate objective of ‘Nil Incidents’ across the industry segments.
He went on to add that our main focus should be on creating a safe work environment in the Oil and Gas industry with an underlying commitment to creating an incident- and injury-free work environment in the entire oil and gas Industry in India. He stressed upon the need for having an umbrella organization looking after the vital Safety aspects of Oil and Gas Industry.
Secretary, P&NG, KD Tripathi, articulating the need to achieve excellence in operations underlined the need for adequate checks and balances in the system which ensures effective safety systems are well implemented in the Oil & Gas Industry establishments.
Joint Secretary, P&NG, Sandeep Poundrik said that reputation of oil companies in international arena besides others depend upon how many accident free hours it achieved in operation and the accident free man-hours the oil companies managed.
Executive Director, OISD, Hirak Dutta added that numbers of incidents in the Oil & Gas Industry show a downward trend since 2011 which is a first step towards achieving our ultimate objective of ‘Nil Incident’ across the Industry segments. (KNN Bureau)
To encourage outstanding safety performance of the industry and to inculcate a positive culture of competitiveness among the industry members, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas introduced a system of Oil Industry Safety Awards in the year 1987.
The coveted Oil Industry Safety Awards are presented to those organisations which achieved ‘exceptional safety performance’.
The criteria for selection of these awards is based on various parameters like complexity of the facility, risk factor, volumes handled, safety management system and accident free-man-hours.
Congratulating the award winners, Pradhan urged the Industry members to strive towards achieving the ultimate objective of ‘Nil Incidents’ across the industry segments.
He went on to add that our main focus should be on creating a safe work environment in the Oil and Gas industry with an underlying commitment to creating an incident- and injury-free work environment in the entire oil and gas Industry in India. He stressed upon the need for having an umbrella organization looking after the vital Safety aspects of Oil and Gas Industry.
Secretary, P&NG, KD Tripathi, articulating the need to achieve excellence in operations underlined the need for adequate checks and balances in the system which ensures effective safety systems are well implemented in the Oil & Gas Industry establishments.
Joint Secretary, P&NG, Sandeep Poundrik said that reputation of oil companies in international arena besides others depend upon how many accident free hours it achieved in operation and the accident free man-hours the oil companies managed.
Executive Director, OISD, Hirak Dutta added that numbers of incidents in the Oil & Gas Industry show a downward trend since 2011 which is a first step towards achieving our ultimate objective of ‘Nil Incident’ across the Industry segments. (KNN Bureau)
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