Tata Steel oragnises 3rd edition of SHE Excellence Awards
Jamshedpur, Aug 20: Tata Steel organised Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Awards ceremony in a hybrid mode applauding winners for their contribution towards the excellence journey.
The award was instituted in FY20 to recognise concerned employees role as leaders in Safety, Health and Environment. Through this, company aims to motivate and inspire them to excel further in this journey.
Chief Guest on the occasion, T V Narendran, CEO & MD Tata Steel reiterated the importance of active display of leadership by each and every employee of the company to create the desired culture that will ultimately help the company achieve its vision of being a global steel industry benchmark in value creation and corporate citizenship. Guest of Honour was Sanjeev Choudhary, President Tata Workers’ Union (TWU). He stressed upon TWU’s constant support in this journey of Safety, Health & Environment.
Sanjiv Paul, Vice President Safety, Health & Sustainability thanked the Senior Leadership Team and Jury Members for engaging in the assessments to assess the right candidates, who would be deserving of these Apex awards.
This year’s theme for SHE Excellence Awards was: Lead, for a Better Tomorrow. Raghavendra Hegde, Sand artist from Karnataka and Atul Khatri, English standup comedian graced the event with their commendable performances.
Notably, Tata Steel embarked on the journey of Environment excellence in all areas of it’s operations and aspires to be the industry benchmark in Environment Management. This year for the first time, Tata Steel introduced best of the best department Award in 5S & Visual Workplace Management. This initiative was started in the last financial year with a goal to reduce the low potential injuries and to control the associated risk.
For the first time, company introduced the Green Cross Trophy this year. This prestigious award was given to the department that had Zero Loss Time Injury in operations & maintenance for the last 3 financial years.
Winners for various categories were:
Environment Excellence Green Award: Sinter Plant, Tata Steel Meramandali
Best of the Best Department Award in 5S & Visual Workplace Management: Pellet Plant, Tata Steel Jamshedpur
Safety Evangelists: Ram Dayal Singh. Ram Das Sahu, Boppu Shiva Kumar
Apex Safety Torchbearer: Utilities Tata Steel Kalinganagar
Apex Health Torchbearer: Pellet Plant, Tata Steel Jamshedpur
Green Cross Trophy: I Blast Furnace, Tata Steel Jamshedpur