It is our Group’s vision to achieve zero harm across all our operations. Health and safety represents an important part of our Group’s values and is core to the JSW way of life.
At JSW Steel, we are committed to providing a healthy and safe working environment for our employees, contractors, business associates, visitors on premises, and above all communities impacted by our operations. To achieve our zero harm vision, we have stringent safety systems in place. These processes are to a large extent tech-enabled and leverage real-time data, and are guided by the principle of shared responsibility. From a governance standpoint, our senior management, along with key plant personnel, assumes overall accountability for ensuring that the appropriate safety policies, procedures and safeguards are put into practice.
Safety improvements empowered with the capacities of AI
JSW Steel launched an exclusive video library of brief 1-2-minutes 3D animated videos to support Safety Training. The videos have been made available on the e-learning portal and have been designed by the World Steel Association.
Each video is based on a real-life incident in a steel manufacturing plant and is designed to communicate how an accident occurred, so it can be prevented in future.
These micro-learning nuggets will not only help avoid future incidents, but it has also helped departments to analyse past events retrospectively and learn from them. The library started with 25 videos, with new videos added in subsequent quarters.
We have begun working on establishing a Centre of Excellence in Process Safety with DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) at our Dolvi site. All the leaders at the site received extensive training in the Process Safety Management. The site has also established robust Management of Change (MoC) and Pre Start-up Safety Review (PSSR).
We have a Health and Safety Governance structure to lead proactively in Health and Safety and focus on key issues. The Apex committee, which is chaired by the site head, meets at regular intervals to review and improve plant safety performance. The information flows from Divisional Improvement Committee and various sub-committee, which aggregates it for the site Apex. Similarly the Site Apex committee reviews and submits the site level H&S plan, progress and performance to the Group Safety Council. We regularly benchmark our safety practices against international standards. To achieve this objective, in the year FY 2020-21, our Salem and Dolvi sites were assessed by the British Safety Council in the area of high risk activities.
To eliminate high-risk scenarios and regulate safety practices at scale, we have extended our digitalisation drive to our safety practices. This has helped create a safer working environment for our employees and contractors.
At JSW Salem Works, we introduced an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled safety surveillance platform, to track the plant’s safety compliance from anywhere and at any time. The intuitive, AI-enabled safety platform has been useful for control rooms, supervisors and the management, and a combination of technologies, including AI, big-data, cloud computing executes realtime analysis of the video feed and sensor data for driving continuous safety improvements, trend analysis and positive safety behaviour.
This system allows the digital modelling of a plant with real-time, dynamic optimisation features and is designed to run on premises, cloud and Edge devices. Incidents and audit findings are captured with historical data analysis and predictive analytics and the platform is also built keeping provision for future scalability and new AI models, as and when identified.
Bringing along this system has been a boon and it has eliminated concerns around safety hazards, traffic violations, PPE non-compliance, digital enabled emergency alerts and geo-fencing. It has helped create best-in-class plant health and safety surveillance, increased efficiency of dedicated teams, effective assistance to improve measures and ensure compliance. It has also moved our safety culture, along the DuPont Bradley curve with a significant impact on the behaviour of employees and contractors. The case will be replicated across our facilities with circumstantial customisations.
