Sixth time in a row, OISD Safety Excellence Award to BPCL LPG Marketing
24 Aug 2015 | Nil
Bharat Petroleum bagged top honours from the Oil Industry Safety Directorate for Best Performance in LPG Marketing and for Retail Operations for the year 2013-14.
Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), PNG, presented the “Oil Industry Safety Awards” in the presence of Mr. K D Tripathi, Secretary PNG, Mr. Sandeep Poundrik, Joint Secretary (Refineries), MoP&NG, and Mr. Hirak Dutta, Executive Director, OISD, presented to all the award winning entities.
The OISD Award for Best Performance in LPG Marketing (Western Region) was received by Shri K.K.Gupta, Director (Mktg), Mr. S. Ramesh, Executive Director(LPG), Mr. P.C.Srivastava, Executive Director(HSSE), Mr. R.V. Deshmukh, DGM Operations & HSSE and Mr. S.K.Jain, RLM WR. This is for the sixth consecutive time that BPCL is bagging this award.
Mr. Pradhan urged the Oil & Gas Organizations to strive towards achieving the ultimate objective of ‘Nil Incidents’ across the Industry. He went on to add that our prime objective must be to create a safe work environment in the Oil and Gas industry with an underlying commitment to creating an incident and injury-free work environment in the entire Oil & Gas Industry in India. While underlining the importance of proactive measures in preventing any incident in the Industry, Mr. Pradhan articulated that Industry must lay more emphasis on self-regulatory measures for strengthening safety in the entire Oil & Gas Industry segments. The companies must strengthen its internal audit mechanisms and promptly liquidate the weaknesses.
On the issue of fragmentation in monitoring & implementation of safety aspects of Hydrocarbon Sector, Hon’ble Minister opined the need for having an umbrella organization looking after the vital Safety aspects of Oil & Gas Industry. He further mentioned that OISD has the necessary wherewithal to effectively monitor the process safety issues in highly hazardous and flammable petroleum industry. “we must aim for establishment of world class Standard Operating procedures at our Oil & Gas Installations and must strive for making this Industry as a ‘Total Safety, Security and Hazard Free’ Industry,” he said. The Hon’ble Minister also released the Compendium on Analysis of Major Incidents of 2014-15 and the and ‘Safety Audit Checklists’.