Indian Health and Safety Legislation: Safety Officer Requirement.

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Industrial Health and Safety blogs. What are the Indian Health and Safety Legislation Requirement for  "Safety Officer"  in different states? Ans: Section 40-B. Safety Officers According to The Factories Act 1948 In every factory :- wherein  one thousand(1000) or more workers are ordinarily employed , or wherein, in the  opinion of the State Government , any manufacturing process or operation is carried on, which  process or operation involves any risk of bodily injury ,  poisoning or disease or any other hazard to health, to the person employed in the factory , the occupier shall, if so required by the State Government by notification in Official Gazette, employ such number of Safety Officers as may be specified in that notification. UTTAR PRADESH FACTORY RULES 1950 and Uttar Pradesh Factories (Safety Officers) Rules, 1984 THE TAMILNADU FACTORIES RULES, 1950, The Tamil Nadu Safety Officers (Duties, Qualifications and Condi
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What are the key changes in ISO 14001? What is context of the organization under ISO 14001? What is LCA ? Is it mandatory requirement?

Key Changes in ISO 14001
ISO 14001 was revised in September 2015 and there are many changes. Key changes including harmonization of elements with ISO 9001:2015 so as to integrate managements system conveniently and effectively within the organisation. The new ISO 14001 standards are grouped around five key areas: leadership, strategic context, interested party analysis and communication, risks and opportunities and life cycle perspective.

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Few key changes are as below:
1-      Clause 4.0 -Context of the organisation: While developing scopes and objectives of the organisation for EMS (Environmental management system) due consideration should be done for internal & external stakeholders and associated influencing elements. It means organization has to consider their own activities direct environmental impacts, effect on business, supply chain and customers, socioeconomic factors (Competitors performance, local community beliefs and expectation). Apart from this internal capabilities of organisation to introduce new green technologies which ultimately lead to reduction or prevention of pollution (Purchase of quieter equipments, purchase of wind mill, solar panel to run the process etc.). Examples are noise from organization’s operation, dust emission from organization’s discharge etc. local authority’s impacts like loss of good water quality due to discharge water from organization.



2-      Clause 5.0- Leadership: Due consideration has been given to Leadership in the new standard. Lead by example, top leadership behavior is an important aspect for improving environment as per new standard. Top management executive has been given role to set objectives for environment improvement. Provide resources, ensure time bounded actions and monitor their progress. So in this regard top executives may take note of biodiversity, sustainability, protection of climate etc.
3-      Clause 6.0- Planning: Effective planning introduced in the new standard which eliminates the requirement of preventive action in the new clause.
Risks are environmental issues. We should avoid future environmental issues by lowering their consequences or their probabilities. We should change the way we work to convert the high risk activity into a low risk activity and eliminate the risk if possible. Also we can reduce the risk by adding risk avoidance activities to the workplace activities. There are two parameters define this

The Consequences – When hazardous event of risk interacts with human, earth or life?
The Probability -What is the probability that the hazardous event of risk interacts with human, earth or life

Risk = Consequence X Probability
Opportunities: Increasing positive aspects of the environment and ultimately receives the benefits.
4-      Life Cycle assessment:
What is a life cycle?
The definition of life cycle is ‘Consecutive and interlinked stages of a product (or service) system, from raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources to final disposal. Life cycle stages include acquisition of raw materials, design, production, transportation/delivery, use, end-of-life treatment and final disposal.’
Is a life cycle assessment a requirement in ISO 14001?
No, it is not a requirement as clearly stated in Annex to ISO 14001 A6.1.2: ‘When determining environmental aspects, the organization considers a life cycle perspective. This does not require a detailed life cycle assessment; thinking carefully about the life cycle stages that can be controlled or influenced by the organization is sufficient. Typical stages of a product life cycle include raw material acquisition, design, production, transportation/delivery, use, end-of-life treatment and final disposal. The life cycle stages that are applicable will vary depending on the activity, product or service.‘
Why consider life cycle perspective?
The reason according to ISO 14001 is that ‘Some of the organization’s significant environmental impacts can occur during the transport, delivery, use, end-of-life treatment or final disposal of its product or service. By providing information, an organization can potentially prevent or mitigate adverse environmental impacts during these life cycle stages. The organization considers the extent of control or influence that it can exert over activities, products and services considering a life cycle perspective.


References:
https://committee.iso.org


I am a Health and Safety professional writing blogs related to Industrial Health and Safety. I am qualified from Regional labor institute India and International Diploma from NEBOSH.

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