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• SH&E is a line management responsibility. Ownership and accountability for SH&E performance is embedded in the line at all levels and Line Managers are responsible for providing SH&E leadership and for development and implementation of SH&E management plans for their areas of responsibility. 

Maintenance of employees health makes a good business sense if you see number of court cases abroad concerning these matters. It would not be long before such cases start cropping up in India as well. Being proactive would help avoid big compensations later!

Sustainability

The term sustainability means the balancing of the environmental, social and economic factors in a company so that it is indeed sustainable for the long term. In today’s time one has to be very clear concerning this aspect of operations. One has to see that in the SHE Management Plan this is articulates clearly like for example “no harm to people and the environment”.

Matter concerning environment means:

• Conduct all operations in a socially responsible manner.

• No net greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.

• No net consumption of potable town water.

• No net generation of waste to landfill, requiring innovative ways to prevent, reduce, re-use and recycle by-product streams.

• Environmentally friendly operations, products and services (which have no unintended consequences to the environment or the community).

                                    ….. in a commercially responsible way.

All these would be elaborated as we move along. Priorities would be set up to see that resources are not constraint.

The environment related Model Procedures cover the issues of legacy management plus on-going environmental management and design issues. If it is a new set up then we need not worry about legacy issues, however, in case of set in existent for a long period, legacy issue take prime importance and should be dealt with suitably.

 Any facility, as a minimum, must comply with the legal requirements of the jurisdiction in which they operate. Having said this my suggestion would be that we should comply with the global standards if these are more stringent.

Safe movement of product from supplier to customer is also the responsibility of the company. The company has to embrace the concept of product stewardship, which includes all aspects of a product’s life cycle. The requirements for operation and practice are set out in the relevant procedures and the same to be considered in SHE Management Plan.

Clearly compliance with all local regulations is mandatory. Line accountability in the company should be explicit.

To be continued…