First Chemical Safety Training Under Viksit Bharat Held in Gujarat

As part of the Government of India's Viksit Bharat@2047 Action Plan, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals recently released its first training program on 'Chemical and Petrochemical Industrial Safety' at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The two-day residential training was conducted at CIPET: Institute of Petrochemicals Technology (IPT) Ahmedabad. The key focus of this session was on Major Accident Hazard units' safety protocols in the Chemical and Petrochemical sector.

This is the first in a series of training sessions conducted by the Department of Industrial Chemical Safety. The program is to be conducted for the Major Accident Hazard Units spread all over India, numbering 2,393 units. A total of 48 such training sessions are planned for the next five years, out of which eight sessions will be conducted during the remaining part of this financial year.

The First programme organised at Ahmedabad witnessed participation of 100 representatives across 62 chemical industries. A total of 13 specialized lectures on chemicals and petrochemicals industrial safety were delivered by the eminent experts from industries as well as distinguished speakers from academic institutions such as IITs & NITsover the course of the two days program.

Thematic areas that were covered in the training programme include Accident & Risk management, Loss Statistics and Loss prevention, Environmental Protection and Spill Prevention, Advance Risk Assessment techniques, Regulatory and standard compliances, Fire and Explosion safety, Hazard Identification techniques,Emergency preparedness, Safety Data Sheet (SDS),Process Safety Management (PSM), Hazardous Waste Management, Emergency Response and Incident & Regulatory and Standards Compliance. To give the industrial employees a hands- on experience, a mock drill was also conducted.