Joint Initiative of Andhra Chamber of Commerce, TUV Sud South Asia & Consultants Consortium of Chennai
Covid 19 has brough lot of changes to business environment in the country. Continuous lock down has forced complete shut down of many factories, industrial establishments, commercial establishments, offices etc. Rebooting or restarting of operations after a long shutdown itself will pose safety hazards to work place , in turn affecting the health and safety 0f employees, customers, other stakeholders and communities at large too.
There is a need to bring specific standards/protocols for the business organizations, institutions etc. to ensure that they are able to operate safely with little or no instances of recurrence.
Since Covid 19 is a pandemic, businesses have to follow the guidelines prescribed by Ministry of Health from time to time. These are designed based on WHO recommendations for Work place Safety. These are people related protocols. People management and contact management is one of the biggest challenges businesses have to address as this will have an impact on public / communities health too.
The post-virus business landscape will clearly include a larger focus on health, safety and hygiene conditions of employees, customers and public at large. India’s decision to start opening up the economy in a staggered manner, while laudable, requires a plan to make sure that exceptions are minimized and recurrences of spread are strategically isolated.
Hence, for the benefit of citizens and industry, QCI, along with industry stakeholders, has developed a harmonized standard “Workplace Assessment for Safety and Hygiene” (WASH)” to help the organizations assess their preparedness to restart and run their operations safely.
This standard is applicable for assessment at any workplace which has been allowed to operate.
Considering the series of work place hazards, accidents that are reported regularly in the last few weeks resulting in loss of lives, loss of property , injuries caused to the workers, communities etc, its important for business establishments to follow the guidelines prescribed above to ensure safety at work place. Occupational Health and Safety initiatives are the need of the hour at work place.
To address the industry’s need, Andhra Chamber of Commerce is organising exclusive session on WASH Scheme jointly with TUV Sud South Asia and Consultants Consortium of Chennai to sensitise industry about this Occupational Health and Safety Scheme.
Interested organisations can register for the program to know more about the Scheme and learn about how the work place can get assessed by TUV Sud South Asia.
Target Audience :
Maintenance teams, Safety Teams, Quality Teams, Occupational Health & Safety Teams, Production Teams, HR Teams from Factories, Industrial establishments, Commercial establishments, Offices , Retail establishments etc
Date : 17th August 2020 – Monday
Time : 4 pm – 5:30 pm
For Registrations :
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkc–prjwiH9UJSe_y8iicSwDDPf6tqUJI
Regn Co-ordinators :
CCC : Rama Venugopal – contact@ccc-consultants.org
D Srikanthan – Secretariat@ccc-consultants.org
ACC : R Vijayalakshmi, Secretary General – andhrachamber1@gmail.com