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Andhra Pradesh is planning to set up Industries Emergency Response Systems (IERS) across the State in the public private partnership (PPP) mode to prevent, and reduce industrial accidents.
Director of Factories G. Bala Kishore said here on Tuesday that the number of incidents had come down drastically following a special drive launched since 2013 after several industrial accidents occurred in Visakhapatnam in quick succession. The first IERS would be established at Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City at Parawada in Visakhapatnam district.
He said the Parawada centre would be a model unit. Later, similar systems would be set up at Atchutapuram near AP Special Economic Zone and Brandix India Apparel City and at Pydibhimavaram in Srikakulam district where several pharma units have come up. In the second phase, such systems would be developed at Sri City, Tada, Kakinada and Nellore.
Kishore said the systems would be equipped with 24x7 monitoring of various parameters and a centralised command control mechanism. The systems would have specialised manpower on round-the-clock duty. CCTV and drone cameras would be deployed to collect information on emissions being made by the factories.
“Once these systems are developed, we will be in a position to prevent several avoidable accidents,” he said in an interview.
He was here to take part in a two-day workshop on safety excellence for business sustenance in AP industry being organised jointly by the Department of Factories and the State unit of National Safety Council.
He said the aim was not to penalise industries or prosecute them, but to educate them and make them partners in the bid to promote industrial safety.
He said Visakhapatnam had emerged as a hot spot as it was the State’s largest industrial and pharma hub. Due to major accidents at HPCL Visakh Refinery, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City and other places, they conducted a safety audit following which ranking had been given to various industries based on threat perceptions.
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