At the foundry, safety, health and environmental aspects have been given utmost importance. The management has made sure safety measures are followed during the use of potentially dangerous equipment. There's laser tracking system to ensure safety during the movement of transfer cars. Cranes have enough bandwidth to accommodate overload tripping. The fast loop line comes with a physical barrier to ensure additional safety for the people involved in handling it. That apart, flame detectors have been installed in equipment that operates on LPG. The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) matrix has been planned to provide suitable PPEs to all employees with respect to hazardous areas and operations.  

A well-equipped Occupational Health Centre and an ambulance have been put in place to combat emergencies. All sources of pollution are equipped with suitable pollution control equipment like stacks, chimneys and dust and fume extraction systems such as cyclone dust collectors and cassette filters. "We have provided necessary infrastructure to treat wastewater that gets generated.

So, waste management is a top priority for us - why we have also gone a step ahead to create hazardous and non-hazardous categories. So that waste can be segregated at source, collected, stored and disposed through authorized recyclers or reprocessors for further treatment and disposal as per the rules. Safety, health and environmental standards have been on the top of our minds. Most of the equipment that are part of the foundry have been imported from IMF Italy and DISA India and the suppliers are ISO and CE certified," adds Raghavendra. The initial tests have been done and they have all been successful and the foundry is now functional.

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