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| Safety Hat-Trick by Essar Power |
| May 31,
2001 |
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Essar Power has received
British Safety Council, UK's National Safety Award for
the third time in a row i.e. year 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Essar Power has also received “Sword of Honour” award
for the year 1999 and “Yogyata Praman Patra” from
National Safety Council of India for the year 1998.
Essar
Power Ltd. has been awarded the prestigious “National
Safety Award” for the third consecutive year from “British
Safety Council, U.K.” This award has been conferred
for maintaining excellent record in safety and successfully
maintaining the incident rate far lower than that of
national standards of U.K. and also striving for the
continuous improvement in Health and Safety standards.
In
addition to two significant advances in health and safety
for the year, Winners must have lower than average accident
rates, good safety policies and safety plans and commitment
to health and safety at the highest board level. |
| Following is the list of
Safety Awards received by Essar Power over the last few
years: |
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National
Safety Award - From British Safety Council 1998,1999 & 2000 |
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Five Star Rating -
From British Safety Council May 1999 |
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Sword of Honour - From British Safety
Council Oct. 1999 |
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Yogyata Praman Patra
- From National Safety Council 1998 |
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| The safety awards were given
at a banquet in London on May 18th, 2001. |
Sir. Neville Purvis, KCB,
Director General of British Safety Council, says:” The
National Safety Awards highlight organizations that reach
the top levels of health and safety. They are a mark of
proven and significant achievement in safety standards.
By making safety an important feature of every day work
practice, Essar Power Limited is reducing accidents and
ill health while improving productivity and profitability”
Essar
Power has been generating 515 MW of power, out of which
215 MW is supplied to Essar Steel and balance 300 MW to
GEB. Essar Power have many firsts to their credit. They
are the first in the world to fire Naphtha as fuel for
frame-9E gas turbine and first to operate with mix fuel
i.e. gas as well as liquid fuel simultaneously. Naphtha
is the most difficult fuel to be handled in the power plant,
which has very low lubricity and high volatility . Essar
Power has gradually evolved improvements in handling of
gas as well as liquid fuel. |
The operation and maintenance
of this plant is carried out using in-house expertise .
The company source stated that they have developed various
practices to carry out repair of major critical equipments
in-house. This has also improved the availability of the
machines as well as safety of men and machinery.
The Combined
Cycle Power Plant of Essar Power is based on pollution
free green technology. Essar Power have trained young dynamic
engineers to operate this plant with totally indigenous
manpower. The average combined cycle plant availability
has been more than 95% . The company attributes the success
to Safety, Health & Environment
policies, quality of operation and maintenance, sound
HR policies and team work. |
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