Coronavirus post-lockdown: NDMA issues workplace safety guidelines for industries
The measures comprise 24-hour sanitisation of factory premises, providing face masks and PPEs to all workers, temperature check of all employees twice daily, no sharing of tools, and ensuring physical distancing by raising barriers on work floors as well as dining facilities, among others
- May 10, 2020,
- Updated May 10, 2020 1:18 PM IST
Following the Vizag gas leak tragedy, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) early Sunday issued detailed guidelines for COVID-19 containment and safety at workplace for factories.
The government body came out with new guidelines to be observed while restarting manufacturing and chemical factories after the lockdown ends. NDMA issued instructions on Chemical Disasters, 2007, Management of Chemical (Terrorism) Disasters, 2009 and the Strengthening of Safety and Security for Transportation of POL Tankers, 2010.
The measures comprise 24-hour sanitisation of factory premises, providing face masks and PPEs (personal protective equipment) to all workers, temperature check of all employees twice daily, no sharing of tools, and ensuring physical distancing by raising barriers on work floors as well as dining facilities, among others.
"To minimise the risk it is important that employees who work on specific equipment are sensitised and made aware of the need to identify abnormalities like strange sounds or smell, exposed wires, vibrations, leaks, smoke, abnormal wobbling, irregular grinding or other potentially hazardous signs which indicate the need for immediate maintenance or if required shutdown," it asserted.
Following the Vizag gas leak tragedy, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) early Sunday issued detailed guidelines for COVID-19 containment and safety at workplace for factories.
The government body came out with new guidelines to be observed while restarting manufacturing and chemical factories after the lockdown ends. NDMA issued instructions on Chemical Disasters, 2007, Management of Chemical (Terrorism) Disasters, 2009 and the Strengthening of Safety and Security for Transportation of POL Tankers, 2010.
The measures comprise 24-hour sanitisation of factory premises, providing face masks and PPEs (personal protective equipment) to all workers, temperature check of all employees twice daily, no sharing of tools, and ensuring physical distancing by raising barriers on work floors as well as dining facilities, among others.
"To minimise the risk it is important that employees who work on specific equipment are sensitised and made aware of the need to identify abnormalities like strange sounds or smell, exposed wires, vibrations, leaks, smoke, abnormal wobbling, irregular grinding or other potentially hazardous signs which indicate the need for immediate maintenance or if required shutdown," it asserted.