Vedanta’s Jharsuguda plant, the largest aluminium producer in the country, has launched an innovative Monsoon Preparedness Center (MPC) equipped with required gear and apparatus to bolster emergency planning and rescue preparedness in its world-class aluminium smelters and power plants.
The brand-new MPC will monitor data from across the length and breadth of the plant for rapid action in emergency scenarios, particularly during unpredictable monsoons.
Parallelly, Vedanta is also fast-tracking digitalization of Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability (HSE&S) monitoring and reporting for unlocking greater agility in analytics-based decision making.
Speaking about the HSE&S measures adopted by the company, CN Singh, CEO – Vedanta Ltd., Jharsuguda said, “Our Monsoon Preparedness Center is the latest addition to the emergency planning and rescue preparedness measures deployed at site. As India’s largest aluminium producer, we have put in place robust processes and global best practices in Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability aimed at making our workspaces safe for employees and partners. While we produce top-class value-added aluminium products to cater to the country’s critical sectors and boost its self-reliance, we are also constantly innovating our processes to realize our vision of becoming a Zero Harm, Zero Waste and Zero Discharge operation.”
Birendar Das, Site Incharge – The Adpro Engineering & Fire (P) Ltd., Vedanta’s fire services partner, says “Vedanta’s Jharsuguda operation has a well-developed 360-degree framework for proactive emergency planning and rescue preparedness. The company’s safety protocols are best-in-class and this is reflected in the employees’ safety-first attitude. As Vedanta’s fire services partner, we work closely with the HSE team to ensure all safeguards for the Jharsuguda plant, which is India’s largest aluminium smelter.”
Vedanta is India’s largest producer of green-metal aluminium, operating a world-class 1.6 MTPA aluminium smelter and 3615 MW thermal power generation facility in Jharsuguda, Odisha.
The only Indian smelter in the global ‘1 Million Tonne’ production and export club, Vedanta Jharsuguda is a leader in value-added aluminium products that find critical applications across core industries.
With one of the largest technically qualified, diverse and vibrant workforces in the country, the company is working towards a sustainable and greener future for all by driving emerging applications of aluminium, the ‘Metal of the Future’.
