OREANDA-NEWS. November 29, 2012. Tata Steel’s prominence on safety at all levels of its operations received national ovation with the Company bagging the prestigious National Safety Award today. Tata Steel’s Bhelatand A and Sijua Colliery of the Jharia division were honoured for holding a record of ‘Longest accident free period’ (LAFP) in terms of man shifts worked and ‘Lowest injury frequency rate’ (LIFR) for the Year 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Tata Steel, Jharia division’s underground coal mines won total 4 awards. Bhelatand A Colliery won the award for being the ‘Longest accident free mine’ under difficult mining condition for the year 2008 & 2010 and ‘Lowest injury frequency rate’ (LIFR) for the Year 2009 while the Sijua Colliery was adjudged the runner up in the same category for the year 2008.

Shri.Pranab Mukherjee, Honble President of India presented the award to TATA Steel representatives - Sri Sanjay Kumar Singh & Sri Satnam Singh, Shri Kumar Akhilesh Singh & Sri RamlalMahato, Sri Barun Kumar Banerjee & Sri B. H. Roy of Bhelatand A Colliery and Sri R K Jain &ShriArun Sonar of Sijua Colliery at a function held at VigyanBhawan, New Delhi. Also present at the occasion were Shri.MallikarjunKharge, Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Government of India, Shri. K. Suresh, Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Government of India,Dr.MrityunjaySarangi, Secretary (MOL&E),Shri. SatishPuri, Director General of Mines Safety.

The National Safety award ceremony is organized by Directorate General of Mines Safety. Instituted by Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India and Directorate General of Mines Safety, Government of India this award is given in recognition of commendable safety performance on the part of industrial undertakings and to stimulate and maintain the interest of both, the management and workers, in accident prevention programmes.