WELFARE & SAFETY AT RAJASHREE CEMENTS

WELFARE FACILITIES

Rajashree Cement Works Factory have all factories Act 1948. But crèches facilities not available.

List of Welfare Facilities in Rajashree Cement Works at Malkhed

Entitlement of Casual Leave

Entitlement of Privilege Leave

Entitlement f Sick Leave

Housing Facilities

Electricity Subsidized

Canteen Facility

Township dispensary

Medical facility

Recreational Facilities

Education Facilities

Banking Facility

Guest House Facility

Shelter, Rest and Lunch room

Uniform, Shoe & Helmet facility

Petrol facility

Allowances

Incentive Scheme

Annual Increments to workers

Co-operative societies

Provident Fund (Act 1952)

Gratuity (Act 1961)

Pension

Insurance

Bonus Act 1965

Transport Facility

Kagina Tana Seva Trust

Marketing Complex

Nursery and Garden

Casual Leave:

The following table represents entitlement of casual leave as shown below.

Workers	7 days
Staff	8 days
Officer’s	8 days

Casual leave can be availed for a minimum of one day to a maximum of three days at one time.

Casual leave shall not be granted in combination with any other leave.

Privilege Leave:

Workers should work for a minimum of 240 days in a year for earning leave with wages for the following year.

Special leave availed by the employee during the year. Leave with wages is granted at the rate of one day for every 20 days attendance.

The following table represents number of days entitled in a year.

Workers	3 days
Staff and above	30 days

Privilege leave minimum of three days.

Privilege leave can be accumulated up to a maximum of 90 days.

Privilege leave can be availed in a maximum of 3 spells in a calendar year. However in case of exigencies, request for the 4 spells can also be considered by the Functional head.

Privilege leave can be availed of only its dues sanction by the sanctioning authority. It is also sanctioned excluding Sundays & holidays as per factories Act.

Application for privilege leave must be made at least 14 days in advance before the expiry of the leave initially granted.

Sick Leave

The following table represents number of days entitled in a year.

Workers	12 days
Staff & above	8 days

Sick leave can be accumulated up to maximum of 30 days.

Sick leave can be clubbed with privilege leave

Housing Facilities

Housing is one of the basic necessities all the employees are provided with rent, free accommodation as per their grade of employment 7 types of housing is there.

The company has a residential township located within easily walk able distance from work place.

Electricity Subsidized

The company is providing 120 units of free electricity to the workman, staff up to assist officer, & officer, job 14-165 units of free electricity.

Workman	120 units free
Staff & asst. officer	120 units free
Officer job-11	165 units free
Job base – 9,10	200 units free
Job 6,7,8	400 units free
Functional head	550 units free

Above unit will deduct monthly salary KEB rate - state electricity Board 5,221 variable rate apply staff & officers fixed rate.

Canteen Facility

Rajashree Cement WorksCement Works provides the canteen facility. It serves tea, wholesome nutritious hot meals & snack at subsidized rate to all the employees. To avail the facility employees have to called canteen coupon (meal card from personal & welfare officer department or time officer near security department.

Appreciate employees, trainees & visiting guests are also using this facility.

Break Time:

Break fast	7.30 to 8.00 am
Lunch for 1st shift employees	10.00 to 10.30 am
Lunch for general shift employees	12.30 to 1.30 pm
Tea break	3.30 pm
Lunch for 2nd shift employees	7.30 Pm

Township dispensary:

In the dispensary of Rajashree Cement Works Cement Works factory three doctors and nurses with bedded well equipped hospital is established inside the township and an two ambulance is provided to meet the emergencies in the factory. This facility is provided to meet the medical need of employees & their families residing in the colony.

Medical facility

The medical treatment facilities to employees & their family member & parents reimbursement of amount. All the employees are covered under the insurance facility of Rs.100000/- per family from national insurance company.

If employees meets accident inside of the company or on duty hours means the company will give free treatment for mini’s department – full free treatments tablets.

Medical examination is free all tests are free they are – ECG, IPD, Lab, X-Ray, and spoidomatery (Lung), Adiometro (ears).

In near villages attend the camps, (eyes and etc)

Every day 5 workers test will conduct.

Tele-Medicine facilities

Medical store-1

Two Ambulance

Recreational Facilities

In order to see that the employees leisure hours after the routine & regular work in plan. Sports & other recreational amenities have been provided by the company.

Rajashree Cement Works Cement Works factory has well stocked library & a reading room with many periodicals & news paper for the purpose of cultural programmes they have also provided auditorium.

Educational Facilities

Education facilities is within the colony itself i.e., Aditya Birla School education imparted English medium (Central Syllabus) within the colony.

This is provided through a subsidized school from kinder garden to high school level. The qualified teachers are appointed and they provided good education as compared to the other school. The children’s of employees are charged nominal fees. The company is providing well-equipped school buildings, play grouped reports room and materials.

Basic Facilities

Banking Facility:

Banking facility is available in the township with the extension counter of HDFC bank & Canara Bank. Now the company pays the salary through bank and made essential of a full fledged market complex within the township.

Guest House Facility:

For the purpose of the trainees who comes from far distance the company has provided bachelor’s hostel. So that they can stay and complete three training in the company.

There are four types of Guest House’s are there

Sthakar Guest house: These houses are made for the VIP persons.

Sawagat Guest House: These houses are made for the officer’s, Manager & above.

Sanman Guest House: These houses is made for the assistant manager & deputy manager.

Young Manager Guest House: These house is made only for Bachelor’s

Shelter Rest and Lunch Room:

According to sec. 47 of factories Act in a factory where more than 150 workers are ordinarily employed should make adequate and suitable arrangement for shelter or rest room, lunch room with provision of drinking water where the workers could take meals brought by them.

Rajashree Cement Works Cement Works Factory has provided well equipped rest room lunch room and shelter for the employees.

Uniform, Shoe and Helmet Facility

Yearly uniform and a shoe facility are provided to the union category employees at the beginning of the year and there is no uniform for the trainees and temporary labour. But they should wear shoe and helmet compulsory.

Petrol Facility:

The facility of petrol filling is provided to the employees at the market rate credit coupons are issued to the employees on demand and cost is recovered from their salary.

Dearness allowances

DA is payable to the artisans according to the “All India Consumer Price Index (AICPI)”. The base DA is Rs.3070 per month. The existing FDS is merged with the revised basic pays.

Incentive Scheme:

“Rajashree” Cement Factory to the memorandum of settlement dated 02.08.2002 giving incentive to encourage the employee with view to

Encourage to higher over all productivity

Emphases on team working besides encouraging individual performance.

Encourage higher production level

Facilities easy transferability and multi skill.

Reduce idleness due to absenteeism rejection and overtime work.

Coverage:

Group 2	:	Artisan and Supervisors working in the administration building/ office working less than as hours in a week.
Group 1	:	Artisan and supervisor’s works and those outside the works working for 48 hours in a week.

Annual Increments to Workers:

Normal increments to workers are sanctioned provided they completed 188 days attendance in the previous year and if they have not been awarded any punishment with holding their increments. Some special concession are also given to workers with long service where they fall short of the attendance of 188 days as per guidelines in case of new entrants, they should have 8 months of the service in the previous year should have been confirmed and also have a minimum of 160 days attendance.

Societies:

Credit Co-operative Society:

This was started to give the financial Assistances to the employee. Recoverable on easy installments and the members of the society is voluntary its maximum loans is available to the member the amount is recovered from the salary in easy installments with the interest rate of 125 per annum the members of the society elect the executive

Retirement Benefits:

Provident Fund Act 1952:

All the employees of company are eligible. Employee rate of contribution is 12% of basic salary or 8.33% to employed pension fund A/c & 3.67%, P.F. A/c as employees A/c maximum excelling of Rs.6500/- directly deducted from the salary and equal contribution is made from the company.

EPF = 6500 x 8.300 [This rate fixed by EPF Organization]

EDLI [Employees Deposit Linked Insurance Governed Under the Act 1976]

EDLI is applicable only employer if the employer workers up to 10 year (eligibility) they will get the “EDLI”.

ESI [Employees State Insurance Act 1948]

It introduced for the welfare of the employees [1948 Act] employees contribution 1.75 percentage.

Total usages on his gross salary excluding washing allowances employer will contribute 4.75% on gross salary.

The employee he getting less then 1500/- and excluding washing allowance means he will covered under the ESI Act.

Benefits of ESI

Sickness	50% of his wages
Accidents	100% of his salary
Maternity	3 weeks
Depends	Pension

Gratuity [Act 1961]

All employees on permanent rolls of gratuity after completion of minimum five years (eligibility).

Calculation of the gratuity is in accordance with the provisions of act.

Gratuity	=	Basic + DA [PF Wages]	x	15	x	No. of year services
		26 days for workmen & staff month

Pension:

The employee pension scheme 16 November 1995 the members are provided super annuation pension retiring pension permanent total disablement pension” and the dependents of member pension fund are entitled for windows pension.

Which provides enlarged benefits employees are compared to the employee family pension scheme. 1971 and its making a contribution of 8.33% to pension and remaining of the provident fund.

The scheme calculate pension at (58 years service)

Pension	=	Pension able salary X Pension able service
		70

Insurance:

Medi-claim (Health Insurance) 90% reimbursement.

GPA (Group Personal Accident): The company has taken GIS with five insurance corporation. The GIS uniform life cover of Rs.63000 to every employee.

Nishchint (Death Insurance): Death insurance is paid by the employee 60% and employer 40%.

Bonus Act 1965

The company will give bonus the salary must be below 10,000/- they will get 8.33% of bonus. The company will give maximum 20% of bonus within 9 months the bonus must be paid.

Kagina Jana Seva Trust:

Kagina Jana Seva Trust its start on 1989. It is very important facility of the welfare. This trust is developing and supporting to the surrounding 10 villages and they will encourage to ITI,

Kagina Jana Seva Trust is Helpful to these areas:

Education:

Vocational guidance for rural youth at KITC.

School, Enrollment & reduction of school dropout through KGBV

Annual sports and cultural meet.

Parents & teachers meet

Adult educationally week students

Supporting for Am bubal Residential girls blind & school at Gulbarga.

KJST is supporting to the above all area’s in education field.

Health and Family Welfare:

Mobile Medical Camp

IOL Eye camp

Cleft Lip Palate screening & surgical camp

MCH & healthy baby show

Pulse polio campaign

World Population day

Dental Awareness & treatment camps

Sustainable livelihood & Women Supportive Initiatives:

Tailoring training centre

Entrepreneurship development training for self help group member

Rural handicrafts (embroidery, painting & cloth designing)

Spray machine distribution of small farmers

Noodle units formation.

Formation of farmers self help groups.

Framers training at agricultural research.

Social Reforms:

Sustainable development

1. Street play on social evils

2. Counseling – any family related problem

3. Village development meet

4. Water tanker supply for religious functions.

Social Visions

To actively contribute to the social and economic development of the communities in which we operates & beyond.

In so doing, buil a better, sustainable way of life for the weaker sections of society and raise the country’s human development ends.

KJST is supporting the above all areas through Rajashree Cement WorksCement Works factory.

Marketing Complex:

The company township has a full fledged market complex, the marketing complex supplies the employee with daily requirements at concessional rate.

Nursery and Garden:

The Rajshree Cement works company maintains garden in the township and also around the factory the company also maintains gardens.

Safety and Health

Safety Principles

All injuries and illness can be prevented.

Each line function is responsible for preventing injuries while safety function is responsible for facilitating safety system improvement.

All unsafe incidents and injuries must be reported, investigated and action completed.

All leaders shall demonstrate care for people by conducting safety observations and propagate safety awareness at ever opportunities.

All Employees, contractor’s Employees and others entering plant for work shall be trained to work safely.

Safety consideration shall influence all our business decisions.

Regular Audit must be conducted and deviations shall be corrected promptly.

Working safely shall be condition of employment.

Every job shall be assessed for the risk involved and shall be carried out as per authorized procedures / checklist / work permit and using necessary personal protective equipments.

Safety, Occupational Health & Environment (SHE) Policy

Our safety, Occupational Health & Environment (SHE) responsibilities are driven by a desire to protect people we work with, society at large and environment. It is integral to the way we do business, as part of our organization value.

We will work to protect people and environment with a fundamental belief that all injuries, emissions and discharge can be prevented. This responsibility rests with every one of us.

We are committed to provide a safe work place and technology for efficient use of energy and natural resources, reduce and prevent pollution, promote waste avoidance and recycle wastes.

We will continue to identify, assess and manage our safety & Occupational Health hazard / risk and Environment impact and regular monitor, review and report progress.

We will develop the “Will” Knowledge and skill among employees / contractors / partners to demonstrate their involvement, responsibility and accountability to achieve sound safety, occupational health and environment practices and performance.

We are committed to continual improvement in our SHE performance by setting objectives/targets, developing, deploying and maintaining standards and systems, and go beyond compliance to relevant industry standards, legal and other requirements.

We will continue to strengthen our systems and procedures for preventing and mitigating any potential emergency situations.

We are responsible and accountable for deployment of this policy and will truly succeed only when we achieve and sustain our SHE goal and are valued by the communities in which we work.

Rajashree Cement Works – Aditya Nagar Hand Guide on OHSAS 18001

OHSAS:

Means occupational health & safety assessment series. This gives the requirements for the organization to control the risk and assist in promoting occupational health & safety management system. An OHSAS specification mainly revolves around.

Establishing OH & S management system to eliminate the hazards and minimize the risks to the employees and other interested parties.

Implement, maintain and continually improve and OH & S management system

Demonstrate such conformance to others.

Seek certification, registration of its OH & S management system through external agency.

Make self-determination and declaration of conformance with OHSAS specification through a policy.

Accident:

An undesired event giving raises to injury, ill heath, death & damage to properties and other losses.

Hazard:

Hazard is a source or situation with a potential to harm, ill health, damage to properly, work place environment or combination of all these.

Incident:

An event that gives to raise an accident or had the potential to lead to an accident.

Hazard Identification:

It is a process to recognize the hazards.

Risk:

Risk is a combination of likelihood and consequence of a specified hazardous event occurring.

Tolerable Risk:

Risks that have been reduced to a level that can be endure by the organization having regards to its legal obligation and OH & S Policy.

Non-Conformance:

Any deviation from the normal practice or procedure. Hitherto, through conventional safety practices we were recognizing physical hazards and unsafe condition/ unsafe acts that were existing in our environment to prevent accidents. The risks while carrying out the work was not recognized, due to which accidents are occurring. In OHSAS systems hazards are analyzed and risks are evaluated and they are brought to an acceptable or tolerable level and OH & S programme is evolved. The significant risks that have been emerged through risk evaluation have been taken as a task to prepare an operational control procedure or taken as an objective to minimize the significant risk and bring it to an acceptable level.

The DH’s/ SH’s / Supervisors are requested to communicate the control procedure prepared for the activities having significant risks to the workmen down the level in order to control the activity in a safe manner.

Occupational Health & Safety Policy

Rajashree Cement Works is committed to the total safe and healthy environment in the organization by:

Continually focusing on the preventive measures through system standards by eliminating hazards and minimizing risks, to improve safety performance.

Creating awareness & promoting safety by education & training on the job hazards to all employees and make them a safe work force.

Complying with all relevant occupational health and Safety Laws & Regulations applicable from time to time.

Encouraging the participation of all employees at all levels on occupational health and safety related matters.

Communicating the responsibilities and obligations to the employees and other interested parties towards safety & hygiene.

Safety & Health Facilities at Rajashree Cement Works Factory:

Induction Training

Hazard its consequence of potential to learn

a) Eliminate Hazard

b) Substitute

c) Engineering Control

d) Administrative Control

e) Personal protective equipment

Safety equipment to workers

The company provides the personal protective equipment they are:-

1. Flurcent Jacket

2. Goggles

3. Cotton hand glass

4. Nose mask

5. Gum boot

6. Alluim foot wear

7. Safety belt

There all safety equipment factory will give to who working in near plant.

Protection of eyes

· Two types of glasses

· Mass

Fire detectors and smoke detectors (Fire Precautions)

Provides the water hyderline – coal to

Fire Extinguish and water supply

A Class type – In this class store the water content – for use wood, cotton and paper work.

B Class type – Its content oil, petrol, diesel & content fume – it cooling effect.

C Class type – Its content electrical & electronics – DCP (Dry chemical powder & CO₂ (Carbon gas) these will use.

Work Permit – Requirement fulfill

Guard System – Heavy noise is there so P.P use Gamma Rays & Radiation for using cooling fans.

DuPont System – Two from two years its using it will implementation.