Conference: Ensuring a Safe, Healthy and Productive Workforce

Agenda Day1: Thursday, November 28th, 2019

09.00-10.00 Registration

10.00-11.15 Inaugural Session

11.15 -11.45 Tea and Networking

11.45 - 12.30 Keynote address I: Mike Robinson, Chief Executive, British Safety
Council

12.30 – 13.00 Keynote address II: Dr. S K Raut, National President- IAOH India

13.00 -13.45 Panel Discussion: Latest Reforms in Occupational Safety and Health
Laws in India and the Way Forward: Key Challenges in Their
Implementation

Discussion points:
 Laws and legislations related to Industrial and Worker Safety
vary with states and there are practical difficulties in
monitoring their implementation.
 The National Policy on Health, Safety and Environment at
Workplace is yet to be seriously implemented.
 There’s a need to extend OSH coverage to all industrial sectors
within India and spread awareness on OSH among key
stakeholders.
 Efforts need to be accelerated to improve data collection and
statistics on occupational health and safety incidents and also
to create a safe and healthy environment.

Speakers
  Bharat Londhe, General Manager – Corporate Environment
Health Safety, Piramal Group (moderator)
 Dhananjay Vyawahare, Head OHS- Samsung- Networks
business - India
 G. Sivaramakrishna Rao, General Manager-HSE, Afcons
Infrastructure Limited
 Sunil Bailwar, Vice President & Head Corporate Environment,
Health & Safety at Hindalco Industries Limited
 Dr. Hasit Dangi, Vice President – Operations & QA, National
Peroxide Limited

13.45 - 14.45 Lunch and Networking

14:45 – 15:30 Powertalk: Improving Human Performance and Safety

Brief: Although it's fairly straightforward, there are two ways to

improve performance. The first, and most familiar, is to improve
performance through instruction, coaching and feedback, and lots
of practice. The second is to reduce unforced errors. People will
still make performance errors even after they know how to do
something well. Over 95 percent of these errors are caused by four
human factors or states: rushing, frustration, fatigue and
complacency. If you're not moving, they can cause quality problems
or reliability errors, production problems or efficiency errors and
problems with customer relations (inside and outside).

However, if you're moving, or things are moving around you, then

these four human factors can cause you to move into the path of
the hazardous energy or to slip, trip, fall or skid. These two critical
errors: line-of-fire and balance, traction or grip are involved in over
95 percent of all acute injuries.

In this session, participants will learn the four human factors that
cause the majority of performance errors and injury causing errors.
In addition, they will learn four critical error reduction techniques
and the neuroscience behind them and learn how to use these
same techniques to help enhance their performance, which will
improve quality, production and safety.

Speaker

 Larry Wilson, CEO, SafeStart

15:30 – 15:40 Partner session: Motorola

15.45 – 16.10 Workshop: Electrostatics Hazards Risk Assessment and Their

Alleviation (speaker session)

 Bajirao Dethe, Chief Manager-Corporate EHS, Piramal Pharma

Solutions

16:15 – 16:25 Partner session: Godrej Interio

16.30 – 17.15 Panel Discussion: Leading the Way Towards Zero Injury at Workplaces

Discussion points:
 While a lot of the safety culture can be influenced by the upper
management or direct supervisors, it is the individual workers
who truly forge the way in whether or not safety is embraced
and implemented every single day.
 It is estimated that over 80% of all people injured on the job
are at least partly responsible for the incident occurring in the
first place. Because of this fact, we as individuals have the
power to prevent the overwhelming majority of workplace
injuries.
 Most workplace injuries are caused by unsafe decisions and
unsafe actions of individuals. If the majority of a work crew
believes the possibility of zero injuries exists and takes action
on this belief then it is truly possible to go long periods of
time with no injuries.
 Focus on one task at a time; do not focus on the amount of
effort it will take to avoid injuries over a long period of time.
What is important is the task you are about to do once you
leave this meeting.

Speakers

 Jay Mukhopadhyay, Chief Manager-HSE, ACC Ltd

 Suvek Salankar, Additional General Manager – Safety,
Peninsula Land Limited
 P.A Murali, Vice President and Region Head - Sustainability &
Regulatory Affairs, Clariant Chemicals
 Pankaj Singh, Head, Road Safety – India, LafargeHolcim
 Gaurang Baxi, Ex-Chief Safety Officer, Tata Power
 DuPont representative
 Rohnil representative
17.15 onwards Tea and networking

End of Day 1

Agenda Day 2: Friday, November 29th, 2019

10.00 – 10.30 Tea and networking

10.30 - 11.00 The Need for Permit to Work Systems for Critical Operations
(speaker session)

 Subroto Muukerjee, Head-Administration & Facilities

Management, Cipla

11.00 – 11.30 Workshop by Bureau of Indian Standards: Occupational Safety and

Health: The Role of Indian Standards (Speaker Session)

 Kreeti Das, Scientist.B, member secretary of CHD 8 –

 Occupational Safety and Health Sectional Committee,
Bureau of Indian Standards

11:30 – 11:40 Partner session: Lloyd

11.45 – 12.10 Implementing the Right Fire Safety Safety Strategy (speaker
session)

 Durganand Thakur, GM & Head-Safety, Vodafone Idea Ltd.

12.10 – 12.25 Safety Leadership: A Key to transforming Safety Culture and

improving Safety Performance

Discussion points:
 Safety Leadership is core to any health and safety
management system.
 Connection between safety culture and safety
performance.
 Safety Culture is affected by human behaviour.
 How good leadership can improve human behaviour.

Speaker

 Robert Chettiar, Head, Technical Services, NIST

12.30 – 13.15 Alleviating Health Problems Related to Poor Ergonomics at

Workplaces (panel discussion)

Speakers

 Dr. Reena Valecha, Workspace & Ergonomics Research Cell,

Godrej Interio
 Viren Dhulla, Vice President - Corporate Health Safety &
Wellbeing, Vodafoneidea
 Vandana A Kudalkar, DGM - Quality & Corporate Safety,
EMCO Limited

13.15 – 13.25 Partner session: Brigs

13.30 - 14.30 Lunch and Networking

14:30 – 14:40 Partner session: Draeger

14.45 – 15.15 Redefining Mindsets in the Construction Industry Regarding OSH

(speaker session)

 Josy John, Corporate Safety Head, Tata Consulting

Engineers

15.15 – 15.25 Partner session: Euro Safety

15.30 - 16.15 Redefining Health and Safety Metrics For Tackling Occupational
Disease (Panel Discussion)

Discussion points:

 Work-related ill health is a problem for every section of

society. The direct costs include the pain and suffering of
the injury or illness, the loss of income, the possible loss
of a job, health-care costs. It is estimated that the indirect
costs of an accident or illness can be four to ten times
greater than the direct
 Different types of occupational disease include: respiratory
diseases e.g. asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease; skin diseases; asbestos-related disease; cancers;
noise induced hearing damage; Hand-arm vibration
syndrome; musculoskeletal disease; stress; Priority areas
include, respiratory diseases (including asthma, COPD and
silicosis); and Occupational cancer (from all routes of
exposure).
 A competent industrial hygienist can help develop a
robust, practical and cost-effective exposure control
strategy, taking into account the human elements of the
work activity. Overall, they can play an integral role in
reducing the numbers of people dying, or developing life-
changing conditions, as a result of unnecessary exposures
at work.
 Skills development, hazard recognition, a comprehensive
training programme can help workers to recognize early
signs/symptoms of any potential occupational disease
16.15 – 16.35 Workshop: The Role and Need for Accreditation in HSE by NABCB
(speaker session)

16.40 – 17.00 Specializations Within SHE Practice, Career Paths ,Value of

Certifications and Steps For BCSP Certifications

 Kevin Chothani, CIH, CSP, CMIOSH, Sr. Gen. Mgr - SHE,

Secura and Board of Certified Safety Professionals (US)
Ambassador

17.00 onwards Tea and networking

END OF DAY -2