STUDIES ON ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND SAFETY (EHS) PRACTICES IN A SMALL SCALE AND LARGE SCALE INDIAN INDUSTRY

M.P.Manivannan, P. Raj Mohan, P.S.S.Srinivasan

Abstract: With increase in the level of globalization, awareness of employees as well as industries on environment, health & safety (EHS) issues are on the raise. The Indian industries are found to adopt the EHS norms specified by the regulatory authorities in India. The study involved a self-administered questionnaire among the workers and interviews with industry experts involved in environment, health and safety. The questionnaire concerned with the personal particulars and questions were based on human, machine and work environment factors of industry-accepted environment, health and safety (EHS) attributes. The industries in the study are large scale level and small scale level. The sample size was 120. The proposed research work aim to study the level of implementation of environment, health and safety norms in Indian industries; to study the reasons of slackness in implementation of the norms, to assess the impact of such poor implementation on employees moral, impact to the business, loss of life.

Keywords: EHS Practices, Large scale and Small scale industries, Influencing EHS attribute, Self- administered survey, Assessment

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0323016