Health, Safety & Environment Policy

To ensure safety for employees, we have organized committees that are dedicated for handling of environment and welfare for employees. The initiatives directed towards the human welfare, environment response and mutual aid are taken care by the respective committees through various activities conducted round the year. Apart from the regular CSR activities the company also creates programs for welfare and environment preparedness

- Mutual Aid

- Environment Response Team

- Environmental Care for Human Welfare

We have a separate safety audit team that takes responsibility of the safety compliance in all units. A dedicated construction safety manual is designed that continually improves safety standards and practices to achieve construction safety excellence.

The company is arranging periodic transporter meet & also arranging training for transport crew, thus ensuring safety during transportation of hazardous chemicals.

Each operating shift commences with a 10-minute discussion on safety aimed at enhancing process integrity. Each project goes through HAZOP studies before commencement. All plant­setting changes are first cleared by the HAZOP team before being implemented.

1000 man-days of Safety trainings conducted

The outdoor safety training for all employees are carried out at UPL's Nahauli Farm House where employees engage in a five day industrial safety camp.

The company frequently engages by conducting demonstrations in the area of disaster preparedness conducted by the factory inspectorate during the National Safety Day celebrations.

The safety department conducts training for all employees and contract on safety related issues.

A detailed Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) system is in place for new as well as existing plants. For new plants we have adopted 4 stage analysis methodologies. For existing plants, cyclic PHA system is adopted once in a 3 years from the baseline PHA. We repeat the process of PHA under various instances like a process incident, change management (technology type) more than five times etc. PHA of all identified critical processes is carried out every year. All the types of changes are routed through proper process hazard analysis system.

The ERT members are selected in such a fashion that minimum 8-10 members are available in each shift except small units to combat with any environment if arises. Bimonthly training is imparted to all ERT members by our own ERT mentors. More emphasis are given on practical training rather than class room training. A full scale mock drill is conductedonce in a quarter at each of our units.

UPL has an Environment Response Team(ERT) at every unit.

Our Ankleshwar, Halol, Jhagadia and Vapi sites were certified with ‘Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS 18001)’ certification in October 2003. We are presently engaged in adopting the Integrated Management System encompassing the requirements of ISO 9000, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 across all our manufacturing facilities.

Responsible Care is a global, voluntary initiative developed autonomously by the chemical industry for the benefit of the chemical industry. This initiative runs across 52 countries accounting for nearly 90% of the global chemical production. UPL is a recognized Responsible Care ompany, awarded the use of its logo. We voluntarily adopted the practice codes of the Responsible Care (RC) initiative accepted by Indian Chemical Manufacturers’ Association and implemented the ISO - 14000 (Environmental Management System), demonstrating our commitment towards continuous HSE performance improvement.