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Lodha: Virtual training on “E- Way Bill & E-Invoicing”

A new initiative taken by our staff to learn “E-Way Bill & E-Invoicing” through a virtual training program. All units’ commercial teams participated in the training program with much interest. The training was given by Shri Padmakar Sharma, Manager-GST and it was appreciated by the participants.

Lodha: Abhivyakti Meeting

To give strengthen to the project “ Abhivyakti” a Maintenance team meeting was called at HRD Centre, Lodha. Shri Rajeev Kumar Dixit (GM- HR & IR) lead this programme and explained the workmen about benefits of this project and shared the achievements of last 6 months among the workmen. Shri Ajay Praksah Jain, DGM-Maintenance also encouraged the workmen to participate in the programme and take benefit of this project Abhivyakti.

BSL: Motivation Training Programme for Staff & Workers

Motivation is an interesting concept. What motivates one person may not necessarily motivate someone else. Now, back in the olden days, people were motivated by sheer survival. If you think about it, back in the day of the settlers or even as far back as the cavemen coming out of the cave, the motivation was to eat and have shelter just to survive. Over the years that has obviously changed and companies have come up with ways to motivate individuals.

One of the most common ways that companies put motivation programs into action is by putting together some type of incentive system. Incentives are a type of reward system where somehow an individual receives some type of motivation for their performance. Take this view BSL Limited organized a Motivation Programme for their employees (Staffs & Workers) to improve their lifestyle on dated 24.02.2021 by motivation speaker Shri MP Pareek (Retired HR Head – RSWM).

Shri Pareek has also covered following motivation tips in their speech and says that all people experience fluctuations in their motivation and willpower. Sometimes you might feel fired up and highly driven to reach your goals, while at other times you might feel listless or unsure of what you want or how to achieve it.

Even if you’re feeling low on motivation, there are steps you can take that will keep you moving forward :

•  Adjust your goals to focus on things that really matter to you.
• If you’re tackling something that is just too big or too overwhelming, break it up into smaller steps and try setting your sights on achieving that first step toward progress.
• Improve your confidence.
• Remind yourself about what you achieved in the past and what where your strengths lie.
• If there are things you feel insecure about, try working on making improvements in those areas so that you feel more skilled and capable.

Total nos. of 127 personnel (Staffs & Workmen) have taken active participation in this awareness/Training program from various workplaces/Divisions.

Shri Ram Dayal Jat (Sr. Manager-HR & Admin) has taken active initiative to organising this awareness programme at site.

BSL: Virtual Surveillance for Integrated Management System

The SGS India has conducted the full remote 2^nd Surveillance Integrated Management System (for the Standard of : ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001:2018) on dated 15^th – 17^th March, 2021 through virtual mode. In this audit, the auditing team has reviewed all documents, records such as procedures / Work Instructions / Formats / Data sheets / Environmental Aspects / HIRA and Risk and based on all production records their revalidation records and also to check operational parameters, process control guidelines, In-process monitoring and training of workmen and Preventive maintenance schedule and maintenance taken record should be updated and Calibration record of equipment’s.

The Management representative Shri CS Sharma and Shri Anil Dungarwal has organised it well with coordination of various department the same.

SGS audit met all standard requirements and provisions during their verification and the audit has been completed successfully without any NC.

BSL: Machine Safety Training Programme

BSL Safety Department has organized a special training on 27^th February, 2021 for the workers and employees on the topic “Machine Safety” in which around 30 workmen from different workplaces / divisions have participated in this special awareness program actively. Safety Manager Shri Ram Milan Singh briefed many check points before taking in use of nay machine such, secure live electric wiring, machine and its prime movers guarding, loose clothing, vibration and extra sounding and its reasons and necessary emergency switch / stop points which can be used to stopped the machine in case of emergency.

Mr. Singh also told to all about of lock/tag out of machine during its scheduled or sudden repairing/oiling or maintenance along with necessary safety procedure likes energy isolation work permit and machine safety work instructions.

BSL: Unannounced I-WAY/IKEA Standard Audit

The unannounced annual I-WAY audit of IKEA has been conducted from 20^th to 21^st February, 2021 through virtual mode to verify their IWAY compliance to determine conformity of the management system and its ability to ensure applicable statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements are met & Effectiveness to ensure the client reasonably expect to achieve specified objectives and to identify as applicable areas for potential improvement.  And secured us around 94% in Weaving Unit-II & around 89% in Processing Division Unit-II and confirmed the business continued.

All the teams of BSL IKEA made their significant contribution towards completing each compliances during the year.

BSL: SMETA (2-Pillar) Audit Conducted by SGS India

You know that SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) is the most widely used social audits in the world and SMETA is Sedex’s social auditing methodology, enabling businesses to assess their sites and suppliers to understand working conditions in their supply chain. SMETA Assesses a site based on their organisation’s standards of labour, health and safety, environment and business ethics. Sedex believes these are key areas for assessing an organisation’s responsible business practices and meeting social compliance.

A social compliance audit is one of the best ways to understand the working conditions at a supplier site. An auditor physically attends the site – or workplace – of a business, enabling the auditor to assess the conditions on the ground.

BSL has conducted this audit from 28^th to 29^th February, 2021 by SGS India like every year for its customers to give a good quality of working conditions and visibility of the working style. Shri RD Jat (Senior MGR-HR & Admin) and Shri Nitin Sharma (Assistant Manager-Personnel) assisted the audit team in making this audit a success under the leading of the Joint Managing Director Syt. Nivedan Babu.

HEG: Balancing & Alignment Session

A session on Balancing & Alignment was taken from 15^th to 17^th February, 2021 in Nalanda Training Centre by Mr. Govind Sharma and Mr. Hemendra Jain. They are expert faculty when it comes to Balancing and Alignment area. The agenda was to give proper training and knowledge to enhance the skill development.

HEG: SEBI Guidelines Session

The session on SEBI guidelines was organized on 4th February, 2021 by our L&D department in Gurukul Training Centre. Mr. Arun K. Pati took the session to create awareness and to prevent Insider trading at HEG unit.

HEG: Android Programming Training

Change is the spice of life and we always accept the good change in our organization, our IT department is equipped with the latest technology and to make sure such we adopted the latest technology. A training for android programming by our IT department was given on 15/02/2021 to develop applications for smooth working in organization.

HEG: POSH Training

The POSH training is an ongoing important activity to create awareness and to ensure the good working condition in the organization. We should always promote awareness on the gender equality in an organization towards safe working atmosphere for women. 

HEG: Work at Height Training

The session on 'Work at Height' was taken by Mr. Surendra Sharma (Safety Manager) on 27/02/2021 to share knowledge related to working on heights inside plant premises. In our country, many accidents happens due to lack of training and knowledge, so to avoid such incidents at workplace we have always given proper trainings on a timely intervals.

Kharigram: External Training on Safety at Work Place

An external training programme on Safety at Work Place was organised on 6^th March, 2021 which was presented by Sh Anurodh Prashant (External Safety Expert and Auditor). Staff of various departments like Engineering, Maintenance, Security, Commercial and Production were covered in this programme. During session, the covered topics were - Fire Fighting, Safety at Work Place, Chemical Handling, Tools Handling etc.

Kharigram: Group Level Virtual Training Programme

As a part of leadership development and succession planning, the group level virtual training programmes were conducted by CHRD in the month of January, 2021. Dr Pankaj Shukla, Corporate Trainer from Being Capable Organization took all the sessions. The topics covered were Accountability, Emotional intelligence, Decision Making & Mental barriers to Success. All the programs were very practical and interactive. Total 48 Managers of RSWM Units - Kharigram, Lodha, Mordi, Rishabhdev, Kanyakheri, Mandpam, Ringas and RPSF got benefited from this learning program. 

Kharigram: Technical Training Programme

On 23^rd January, 2021 a technical training session was organised at Kharigram on CAIPO (Slub Attachment). Mr Sachin Acharya from Voltas facilitated this programme and explained about slub attachment and its applications for fancy yarns in respective work areas. All HOD and Section heads from Electrical, Maintenance and Operation departments were covered in this programme.

Kharigram: Training on Safety Management

The HR department conducted a training programme on Safety Management on 25^th February, 2021. Sh Dileep Chourasia, Dy. Manager-Safety facilitated this programme and explained about the habits of safety in our daily routine, various types of hazards, firefighting, workplace safety etc. He also demonstrated the fire fighting with fire extinguisher and explained where should we target for stopping the fire immediately.

Kharigram: Quality Circle Training Program

The HR department conducted a training cum awareness session on Quality Circle on 22^nd Janurary,2021. Sh Vinod Purohit, Dy. Manager-CTSC facilitated this programme and explained about QC Tools, methods to implement the Quality Circle system in respective work areas. All HOD and Section heads were covered in this programme.

Mandpam: Fire Safety Training Session

A training programme on Fire Safety & use of Fire Hydrant system was organized at Mandpam unit on 05^th March 2021.

The main objective was to create awareness for use of fire hydrant systems at the time of fire. Mr. Anil Bishnoi (Executive –Fire & Safety) was the faculty for this training programme and it was conducted successfully. 

LNJ Denim: Training on Fire & Safety

A training session was conducted on Fire & Safety on 20^th February, 2021. The two hour training program was provided to staff, security guards. A demonstration was done on how and when to use required equipment’s with all the possible safety measures. The main objective of the training was to create awareness about the use of firefighting equipment’s at the time of fire. The training was given by Shri Devanand Shah - Safety Officer.

LNJ Denim: Training on ISO 45001:2018

A training session on ISO 45001:2018 was conducted on 22^nd February, 2021. The entire one day training program was provided to the employees. It was given by BSI External Trainer, Shri Ajay Kumar and the main objective of the training was to create awareness about the new ISO 45001:2018’s requirement in the plant & how it would be implemented. ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance. Total 25 staff members had attended the session.

ADHPL: The 1st Internal IMS Audit

The 1^st internal audit of IMS (ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001:2018) was conducted successfully through all departments including Transmission Line, from January 29 to 30, 2021 for the certification year 2020-21. 

ADHPL: Tier-II Mock Drill on Earthquake Triggers Avalanche

The ADHPL participated in Tier-II Mock Drill organized by District Administration Kullu on 18^th Feb 2021. The scenario of mock drill was “Earthquake triggering an Avalanche & resulting in breakdown of Atal Tunnel at Rohtang, Manali. AD Hydro Power Ltd. had sent its rescue and medical team of eight members with ambulance to take part in the mock drill. On completion of drill, SDM Manali thanked ADHPL and appreciated the effort put in by the team for their active participation.

ADHPL: Work at Height & Rescue Training

A Five days training session on “Work at height and rescue of stranded person” was organised from February 09-13, 2021 at Transmission line. The training was conducted by an external expert agency in three sessions at TL sites. Total 55 personnel were trained during these sessions by the third party. It was specially planned for transmission line workers for enhancement of skills.

ADHPL: EQHS Management Review Committee Meeting

The first EQHS management review committee meeting of IMS for certification year 2020-21 was held on March 05, 2021 at ADHPL unit. The overall programme was conducted successfully.

MPCL: Mock Drill on Earthquake

A Tier 2 Mock drill on Earthquake was conducted in collaboration with Himachal Pradesh Home Guard services on 10^th March, 2021 by MPCL to check the emergency preparedness planning, responses and effectiveness of the emergency response plan.  Before execution, a meeting was also conducted with HODs/Section in-charges to discuss the scenario on injuries occurred to many employees during earthquake and define role & responsibilities of the individuals. The whole scenario was performed effectively.