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For a smooth transition, a transition team has been developed to
lead the change management process, supported by continuous
communications from the leadership team.
Prevention Of Sexual Harassment
The Company has zero tolerance for sexual harassment at workplace
and has adopted a Policy on prevention, prohibition and redressal
of sexual harassment at workplace in line with the provisions of the
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition
and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder for prevention
and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment at workplace. The
Company is committed to providing equal opportunities without
regard to their race, caste, sex, religion, colour, nationality, disability,
etc. All women associates (permanent, temporary, contractual
and trainees) as well as any women visiting the Company’s office
premises or women service providers are covered under this Policy.
All employees are treated with dignity with a view to maintain a work
environment free of sexual harassment whether physical, verbal or
psychological.
During the Fiscal 2017, the Company had received four complaints on
sexual harassments, which have been substantiated and appropriate
actions were taken. The Company organized 137 workshops and
awareness program against sexual harassment. There were no
complaints pending for more than 90 days during the year.
Similar initiatives on Prevention of Sexual Harassment are in place
across the Tata Motors Group of companies.
Safety & Health – Performance & Initiatives
The Company is committed to provide a safe and healthy working
environment for its employees and associates to ensure a high degree
of safety norms. The Company continously strives to perform beyond
compliance whilst positively influencing its value chain members to
improve their safety standards. There is an increased focus on areas
like training and awareness, safety observations, audits etc. to drive a
positive safety culture.
The Company’s India operation, whilst achieved improved
performance with Total Recordable Case Frequency Rate (TRCFR)
being 1.84 against the target of 1.96 for the Fiscal 2017, the overall
Safety Performance improved but recorded four fatalities during the
year, of which three were road related.
Manufacturing Plants across the country are certified to ISO
14001 - Environment Management Systems and OHSAS 18001 –
Occupational Health & Safety Management System, along-with
Warehouses Safety Infrastructure upgraded and certification of
OHSAS 18001 for a warehouse was also accomplished during Fiscal
2017. All theCompany’sManufacturingPlants across India arecertified
to ISO 50001 - Energy Management System too. The Company
has undertaken several initiatives for resource conservation such
as re-cycling of treated effluents back to process, energy, material
recovery and co-processing from hazardous wastes through cradle
to grave waste management principles and rainwater harvesting.
Manufacturing plants also generate in-house renewable power and
source off-site green power where available. Except Sanand, all the
Company’s sites are certified for GreenCo.
The Company places equal emphasis on safety processes, behavioral
safety and strive to create a positive safety culture towards achieving
the ultimate goal of ‘zero injury’. Safety is a primary focus area in
daily management and safety parameters are part of the scorecard
for Senior Leaders. In same lieu
‘SAFE20
- 20 minutes for Safety,’
the company’s initiative on engagement in Safety. Sessions on Road
Safety were conducted at 9 offices across India engaging tunes of
1,000+ employees along with mentoring of Flexi Work Force under
“
MY BUDDY”
program by Permanent Blue Collar Work force / Group
leaders.
In line with Safety and Health Policy, to enhance safety standards of its
business partners, Company engaged its upstream and downstream
supply chain in the safety journey. The objective of such engagement
is to raise the safety standards at Suppliers and Dealer workshops. In
addition to existing 16 safety standards, new standards / guidelines
like Cell Phone Policy, CCTV Policy, Lone Working Standard,
Industrial Hygiene Standard, Engineering Standards, Vehicle Usage &
Replacement Guidelines were developed and rolled out to raise the
level of safety.
The Company continued Campaign
‘i-drive safe’
– an initiative on
building a safe driving culture amongst its employee and associates
and have trained them in defensive driving. In excess of 19,103
employees and associates till date have been trained under this
campaign, initiated few years ago.
‘My Road My Discipline’
a
Road
Safety Week campaign during January 11 to 17 included Road Safety
Celebrations conducted in all location including all plants, offices,
dealerships, warehouses, vendors and social awareness messages
were aired on FM on road safety in Indian 8 cities.
‘senSHEtize’
- A Company’s initiative on Women’s Safety Awareness:
950 women employees were trained with focus on Women’s Safety
and Self-defense in 14 session across offices & plants.
Jagruti
– Safety Awareness Building Campaign for Workshop
Managers is a year-long campaign focused on building awareness
on safety and understanding of the Company’s expectations on
Dealers Workshop Safety. This programme is in collaboration with
the Company, Castrol and training partner ICECD. Jagruti Safety
Awareness campaign was initiated done for channel partners-PV &
CV dealers covering around 1,800 workshop pan-India.
In health area, the Company under the
‘Health Plus because you
matter!’
initiative engaged employees on various subject of health.
Health & well-being of aging workforce remains a prime concern.
Various health programs across all locations with emphasis on
contract employees- eye checkup of drivers, stress management,
mailers, etc. have been conducted under this initiative.
For Food Safety, Pune Plant was accreditedwith
HACCP Certification