Essar Heavy Engineering Services bags National Safety Council Award

Essar Projects’ Heavy Engineering Services (EHES) SBU, Hazira, was awarded the national level ‘Shreshtha Suraksha Puraskar’ silver trophy and certificate by the National Safety Council of India. It received the award for 2014 for Outstanding Performance in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) during the three-year assessment period from 2011-2013 in Group – D under the Manufacturing Sector.



The National Safety Council is an autonomous, non-profit, tripartite apex body, which was set up by the Government of India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment in March 1966.  Its objective was to generate, develop and sustain a voluntary movement on safety, health and environment (SHE) at the national level.



The selection process for the award involved various stages such as screening of applications, assessment by a technical team, a presentation before the Awards Committee, and data verification by the Directorate of Industrial Safety & Health, Gujarat State, where the EHES facility is located.