Hyderabad / Pune, NFAPost: Cummins India Limited is awarded the prestigious Golden Peacock Occupational Health and Safety Award 2022 in the engineering sector. Celebrating 60 years of remarkable presence in India, the company won the award for major achievements in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S), as well as the successful implementation of innovative Occupational Health and Safety programmes.
Former Chief Justice of India M N Venkatachaliah and Director General – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Secretary – Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Dr. N. Kalaiselvi presented the award to Cummins India Chief Supply Chain Officer Shubhankar Chatterji, Cummins Inc HSE Leader India/ APAC Jenoy Joykutty, Cummins India HSE Leader Rajat Kumar and Cummins India HSE Risk Support Nitish Kulkarni at the award ceremony held in Bengaluru in the presence of esteemed business and industry leaders.
Following his acceptance of the award, Cummins India Chief Supply Chain Officer Shubhankar Chatterji said Cummins India is honored to receive the acclaimed Golden Peacock Occupational Health and Safety Award.
“At Cummins, the shared responsibility for safety of our employees is derived from our core value of caring. We continuously endeavor to create an enhanced and holistic health and safety system which is not restricted to just physical safety, but also excellence in product and psychological safety,” said Cummins India Chief Supply Chain Officer Shubhankar Chatterji.
He also said the company is extremely proud of its team who has been steering the OH&S policy and annual safety plans to reduce health, safety and environmental risks and ensure the continual improvement of our Health, Safety and Environment performance.
“This award is also dedicated to all our employees, who play an integral role in creating a robust safety culture at Cummins through active consultation, participation, and feedback,” said Cummins India Chief Supply Chain Officer Shubhankar Chatterji.
Rajat Kumar, HSE Leader, Cummins India also presented Cummins best practices during the event, underlining how HSE partners with leaders, employees, and key stakeholders across the organization to reduce risks continuously and proactively.
Cummins India benchmarks world class HSEMS (Health, Safety and Environment Management System) practices through a dedicated HSE (Health Safety and Environment) department and all India manufacturing locations certified for ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 standards, an internationally recognized framework of criteria, to reduce health, safety, and environmental risks.
Employees are the driving force and share equal responsibility to advance the Health, Safety, and Environment Culture at Cummins India. Health and safety committees have been established across Cummins plant locations to regularly monitor the health and safety of employees.
Employees and trade unions are members of safety committees and are actively engaged in periodic site-level risk reduction through Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention and HSE Risk Assessment Tools. Several employee engagement initiatives such as Lead It, Live It and Find It, Fix It, have been instrumental in sustaining the HSE performance. In alignment with our Destination Zero strategy, Cummins HSE department also drives PLANET 2050 sustainability goals and 2030 targets by regularly organizing environment awareness initiatives across Cummins India plants.
About Cummins India Limited
Cummins India Limited, part of the Cummins Group in India, is headquartered in Pune since 1962 and is the country’s leading manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines for power generation, industrial and automotive markets. Cummins India Limited has a country-wide network of 20 dealerships with over 450 service points that provides products, services, and after-market solutions for uptime of Cummins equipment and engines to customers in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
About Cummins Group in India:
Cummins in India, a power leader, is a group of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute, and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, air handling, filtration, emission solutions, and electrical power generation systems. Its technology and pioneering initiatives are bringing innovative solutions and dependable services at the best possible value to users across the country.
Its high-performance outlook is based on customer focus, integrity, and capability of its people. Part of the $19.8 billion Cummins Inc. USA. Cummins in India is a Group of seven legal entities across 200 locations in the country with a combined turnover of ₹17,900 crores in 2021 and employing over 10,000 individuals.
