{"id":11229,"date":"2018-06-05T05:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2018-06-05T05:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T05:47:13","slug":"ambuja-cement-observes-global-health-safety-days-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=11229","title":{"rendered":"Ambuja Cement observes \u2018Global Health &#038; Safety Days 2018\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Health-Safety-march-held-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Bhatapara-in-Chhattisgarh.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11230\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11230 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Health-Safety-march-held-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Bhatapara-in-Chhattisgarh.jpg\" alt=\"Health &amp; Safety march held by Ambuja Cement employees in its plant at Bhatapara in Chhattisgarh\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Health-Safety-march-held-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Bhatapara-in-Chhattisgarh.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Health-Safety-march-held-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Bhatapara-in-Chhattisgarh-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Health-Safety-march-held-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Bhatapara-in-Chhattisgarh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Health-Safety-march-held-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Bhatapara-in-Chhattisgarh-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campaign reaches out to scores of stakeholders, sensitising them about Health &amp; Safety<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activities held under the theme \u2018I improve health and safety every day in my workplace\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mumbai \/ Chennai:\u00a0<\/strong>Ambuja Cements Ltd, apart of the global conglomerate LafargeHolcim and one of the leading cement manufacturers in India, has celebrated the \u2018Global Health and Safety Days 2018\u2019, strongly reiterating its commitment to achieving\u2018Zero Harm\u2019 goal in all its operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having made great strides in the Health &amp; Safety(H&amp;S) journey since the first exercise held in 2016 as part of its parent company LafargeHolcim\u2019s annual campaign,Ambuja Cement recently observed thisinitiative for the third consecutive year with great enthusiasm. Ahost of activities were organised for two weeks under the theme \u2013 \u2018<em>I improve health and safety every day in my workplace<\/em>\u2019 \u2013 which aimed at renewing the company\u2019s focus as a learning organisation that places H&amp;S as its foremost value and at the centre of all its operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Work-at-Height-practical-training-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Ambujanagar-in-Gujarat.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11231 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Work-at-Height-practical-training-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Ambujanagar-in-Gujarat.jpg\" alt=\"Work at Height practical training by Ambuja Cement employees in its plant at Ambujanagar in Gujarat\" width=\"864\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Work-at-Height-practical-training-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Ambujanagar-in-Gujarat.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Work-at-Height-practical-training-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Ambujanagar-in-Gujarat-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Work-at-Height-practical-training-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Ambujanagar-in-Gujarat-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Work-at-Height-practical-training-by-Ambuja-Cement-employees-in-its-plant-at-Ambujanagar-in-Gujarat-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on the success of the campaign,\u00a0<strong>Ambuja Cement MD &amp; CEO Ajay Kapur<\/strong>\u00a0said, \u201c<em>At Ambuja, we strongly believe in ensuring a safe and healthy environment for our employees and other stakeholders including business partners and communities.Health &amp;Safety is something we talk about and something we live. In fact, it is one of the ways we measure the quality of the work we do. Since past few years, we have been successful at shifting the safety culture in a positive direction because at every turn we had people who understood the paramount importance of keeping those around them safe, and then acted as safety Ambassadors<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While plants focused on reviewing processes and key lessons learnt around the four main risks\u2013mobile equipment and on-site traffic, energy isolation, working at height, and confined spaces \u2013 efforts were also made to ensure sensitisation on operational discipline and hazard identification. Similarly, offices saw activities around ergonomics, health management and much more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cWe have a structured approach to drive our Health &amp; Safety journey. This campaign has provided us yet another opportunity to touch all our stakeholders and keep the momentum going. The experience of this campaign is encouraging and giving us the confidence to achieve \u2018Zero Harm\u2019 at our operations,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>concluded Mr\u00a0<strong>Kapur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The activities educating and empowering thousands of stakeholders \u2013 employees, their families, third-party workers, transporters, drivers and vendors \u2013 were held at different locations across the country including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh,Rajasthan, West Bengal andChhattisgarh. These activities included safety pillar talk sessions with thought-provoking slogans, \u2018Shramdaan\u2019 to improve housekeeping, operational discipline workshops, safety training and awareness sessions, personal protective equipment booths to raise awareness, road safety workshops and community engagement programmes among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since inception, Ambuja Cement has laid a strong emphasis on H&amp;S parameters, which has enabled the company to retain its \u2018Thought Leadership\u2019 position in this space. While all its plants have been certified by the internationally recognised Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001 (officially known as\u00a0OHSAS 18001), the company has over the years implemented various pioneering initiatives that stood out in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign reaches out to scores of stakeholders, sensitising them about Health &amp; Safety Activities held under the theme \u2018I improve health and safety every day in my workplace\u2019 \u00a0 Mumbai \/ Chennai:\u00a0Ambuja Cements Ltd, apart of the global conglomerate LafargeHolcim and one of the leading cement manufacturers in India, has celebrated the \u2018Global Health and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}