28-04-2025
World Safety Day: Telangana workers, managers urged to tighten industrial safety norms
Safety helmets were metaphorically fastened and seat belts tightened at Ravindra Bharathi Auditorium on Monday as around 800 factory managers, employees and workers from across Telangana assembled to mark 'World Day for Safety and Health at Work'.
The Department of Factories, Government of Telangana, in collaboration with the National Safety Council's Telangana Chapter, pulled together the event, which crackled with a spirit of serious purpose and a little theatrical flair.
Workers from Singareni Collieries, Natco Pharma, Apitoria Limited, BHEL and Toshiba Transmission and Distribution Systems staged skits, songs and plays performed on the theme of safety at the workplace.
Presiding over the function was B. Rajagopala Rao, director of Factories and chairman of the National Safety Council's Telangana Chapter. Stressing that valuing life should be the backbone of industrial culture, he pointed out that awareness of workplace risks is non-negotiable if accidents are to be avoided. He further said that the Department and the Council have been jointly conducting regular training sessions to hammer home the basics of safety and health across factories in the State.
Y. Mohan Babu, joint chief inspector of Factories, urged factory managements to tap into Artificial Intelligence to sniff out hazards before they mushroom into full-blown disasters. 'If machines are getting smarter, so should safety strategies,' he said.
The event also saw participation of Sadanandam Goud, vice-chairman of the National Safety Council, Peruvelli Hemchandra of Neuland Laboratories, Sanjay Chaturvedi of Apitoria Limited, Shuichiro Marumoto from Toshiba Transmission and Distribution Systems and Muralidhar Reddy of Honour Labs, alongside senior officers from the Factories Department.
