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Visakhapatnam , Sept 15

HINDUSTHAN Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Visakha refinery, is neglecting safety of the workers and all the safety measures shown by the management are only on paper, according to the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.

The leaders and workers of the BMS staged a protest demonstration here on Wednesday in front of the joint chief inspector of factories and submitted a memorandum on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the blast in the HPCL-Visakha refinery.

The blast, which occurred on September 14, 1997, claimed more than 60 lives.

In the memorandum submitted to the Joint Chief Inspector of Factories, Mr K. Bhavani Sankarudu, President of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, and Mr D.R.S. Satyanarayana, Secretary, accused the management of "entrusting hazardous and perilous jobs to workmen without providing safety gadgets, resulting in frequent accidents."

However, the HPCL management in a statement on Tuesday said that it had learnt from the 1997 accident and streamlined the safety measures.

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