Worker Safety:
1. Awareness drive through
- Hoardings at strategic locations
- Display of posters
- Occasional screening of film on safety.
2. Training Programme:
- Training to safety supervisors and Mukadams
- Audio-visual training to the workers
- Setting up of a modern training cum welfare institute.
- Three days training programme on "Basic Safety Training for All" is being conducted.
3. Safety Evaluation through impartial team:
- Three rounds of safety evaluation completed.
- Results conveyed to individual plot holder for improvements.
- Fourth Round of Safety audit will be carried out during 2007-08.
- “Standing Council for Safety measures enforcement at Alang" is formed by Government of Gujarat."
4. Monitoring:
- Accidents are inquired & studied and measures are taken to prevent recurrence of such incidents
- Use of PPE's by the workers working in the recycling plots is being monitored periodically by the GMB safety supervisors
Future Plan:
- Intensive job-oriented training.
- Introduction of partial mechanization.
- Splitting up macro and micro level cutting.
- Involvement of experts for undertaking risky operations.
- Well-conceived multi-pronged safety awareness drive.
Health and Welfare Measures:
1. Health
- Facilities for primary treatment are available at the
Red Cross Hospital - Mobile Medical Van with doctor service.
- A full-fledged hospital is built by a public Trust. Medical treatment will commence shortly.
- Periodical health camp in association with ship breakers.
- Health Awareness project through Bhavnagar Blood Bank in association with Gujarat State AIDS Control Society.
- Organized Health check up camp at Training Institute as well as at the yard.
2. Recreation:
- Playgrounds for major sports are developed near the site of proposed housing colony.
- Sports Tournaments are occasionally organized.
Source: Gujarat Maritime Board website
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