National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on 9th May has issued fresh guidelines for re-starting manufacturing industries post-lockdown and the precautions to be taken for the safety of the plants as well as the workers.
Key Highlights from the guidelines.
- While restarting the unit, the first week should be considered as the trial or test run period after ensuring all safety protocols.
- There should be 24 – hour sanitation of the factory premises. The factories need to maintain a sanitation routine every 2-3 hours especially in the common areas that include lunch rooms and common tables.
- In case the industry has any difficulty in managing crucial backward linkages that may be critical for their safe functioning, they should approach the local district administration for specific assistance.
- Industries to carry out complete Safety Audit of the entire unit before taking up starting activities and Boilers/ furnaces/ heat exchangers to be checked for lining and signs of wear and tear.
- Service test need to be performed for all water, compressed air, and steam piping and equipment with normal operating fluids.
- Temperature checks of all employees to be done twice a day and those workers showing symptoms should not report to work.
- Factories that work 24 hours at full production capacity should consider one hour gap between shifts, except factories/plants requiring continuous operations.
- Further factories have to prepare accommodation to isolate workers, if needed and HR has to help manage the whole process for individual, all travelling employees also to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
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