NATIONAL SAFETY WEEK CELEBRATION-2017 LEADERSHIP IN SAFETY AND HEALTH ENHANCES BUSINESS

SUSTAINABILITY

DP World Nhava Sheva has celebrated “National Safety Week 2017” as per NSC (National Safety Council) guidelines. During the National safety week celebrations a number of initiatives were undertaken involving employees, contractors, stakeholders and students in nearby schools. Events were held between 4th March and 10th March 2017.

Active involvement from employees, contractors, drivers, stake holders and local public was observed during the celebration. The initiatives included were slogan competition, quiz competition, safety poster drawing competition, and spot quiz competition for employees, elocution competition for contractors, safety campaigns for external truck drivers, lashers, ICD checkers, and contracted supervisors. As part of safety week celebration, safety awareness campaigns for school children and college students have been also been arranged at a nearby school. An interactive session with an active crowd of 150 students were present, and discussed regarding personal safety, safety on road, home, sports etc. Global environmental issues were also discussed. Quiz on environment and general safety has seen an active participation from students

and complimentary gifts were given to all. This session ended with a safety and environment pledge for boosting morale of young aspiring minds. The campaigns on safety awareness conducted through poster display, desktop messages, Tool box talks and safety awareness campaigns etc.

EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS

1. SAFETY QUIZ COMPETITION :

Safety quiz questions based on safety and environment was arranged for employees. It is really glad to know that all participants were able to score well above the average. Total 32 participants were present for quiz. Quiz had 20 objective questions regarding general, port safety rules and regulations, environment etc

Winners of quiz competition:

1. Padma Inti- Finance 2. Harshal Mhatre – Operations 3. Nitin Ramnath Patil – Operations

2. SAFETY POSTER DRAWING COMPETITION:

Employees have been asked to put their creativity into posters creating awareness on safety, health and environment. They covered interesting concepts through attractive sketches and colors, Total 18 contestants actively participated in poster drawing competition.

Winners of Poster drawing competition: 1. Anish Anujan- Finance 2. Mangesh Tandel- operations 3. Leena Manna- CRM 4. Kiran Mahendra Thali-Operations

Winning poster designs;

3. SAFETY SPOT QUIZ COMPETITION FOR EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS:

We have conducted an interesting campaign through spot safety quiz and it was conducted on every floor of operation building, rest area, engineering workshop for employees as well as contractors. Questions were based on general safety, port rules& regulations environmental awareness etc. Winners were gifted with exciting prizes.

1. Padma Inti 2. Hitesh Shah 3. Sandeep Shah 4. Smita Saraf 5. Shrenik Shah -MICT 6. Virendra Patil 7. Harichandra Kadu 8. Varsha Patil 9. Shripad Deshpande 10. Rajarathinam Pillai 11. Vidhya E Pais 12. Arpita Juby 13. Sanjay Kadu 14. Siraj Dalvi 15. Ravindra Jitekar 16. Jitendra Patil 17. Mahesh Tandel 18. Ritesh Kumar

4. SAFETY ELOCUTION COMPETITION FOR CONTRACTORS:

Safety elocution competition was conducted for the contracted staff with involvement of contracted supervisors and user department representatives. Topic given to them was “Safety in Daily Life” and given 5minutes for each.

Winners for safety elocution competition: 1. Sunil Patil- MWH enterprises 2. Rahul Kumar- Om Sai Hospitality 3. Machindra Patil- Forbes Facility

5. SAFETY SLOGAN COMPETITION FOR EMPLOYEES:

Safety slogan competition was conducted for employees. The event has seen an active participation from workforce. Winners were selected by panel of HODs.

Winners of safety slogan competition: 1. Rajesh Bhosale- RMGC operator 2. Jitendra K Mhatre- QC operator 3. Arunima Singh- Human Resources

6. SAFETY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN WITH STUDENTS AT NEARBY SCHOOL:

HSE representatives have visited nearby school, college and had an awareness session with students. A fun filled session has seen active involvement of 150 students and discussed regarding children’s safety, crime related with kids, precautions to be taken while travelling alone. An elocution competition and short quiz competition were also organized; kids were asked questions on public safety, road safety rules & regulations and environment. HSE representatives congratulated students’ awareness level and gifts were handed over.

7. SAFETY GAME: “FEEL THE PAIN”:

As part of a safety week celebration, we had organized a game called “Feel the Pain”. It involves participants to perform a common task with only using one hand. We gave cold drink tetra pack to participants and told them to open them with using only one hand. During the game no one was able to perform the task given and it made them realize about the injuries. HSE representative

made briefing about importance having body parts and difficulties in life without them. Participants thanked HSE representatives for helping them building awareness regarding safe working.

8. AWARENESS CAMPAIGN WITH CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES AND STAKE HOLDERS THROUGH TOOLBOX TALKS:

Awareness camapigns were conducted through number of toolbox talks with employees, contractors and stake holders. Awareness camapigns covered different topics like port safety rules and regulations, general safety, environment, pollution, precautionary measures while working, safe operating procedures, health awareness for drivers, were few among disucussed.