Today industries, particularly in India, are facing stiff challenges in meeting the safety and health requirements of the employees and there are reasons for it. First, the changes in work organizations and technologies pose serious problem of workplace accidents. The employees are subjected to the known and unknown risk of occupational injuries and illnesses. Second, the growing societal demand for better quality of work life in the on-suit of OSHAS18001 and SA8000 made people aware of the situation on a positive note which needs to be satisfied by the employer. Finally, increase in competition from global players in terms of quality, productivity, and safety keeps organizations awakening for their sustainability. Under this changed scenario, industries and organizations in India need to develop and device ways and means to improve their workplace in terms of safety, health and environment.

The movement for improving quality world-wide over the last 100 years shows that suitably educating employees on quality management principles and empowering them for excellence in quality prove excellent result. This can be true for safety improvement too.

Industries should take initiatives to strengthen safety systems they own through design/redesign, education and training, and instituting safety measures including safe behaviors of the employees. The lacuna persists in designing safety programmes are
not inherited in engineering design,
not involved the key process owners, and
not supported by organization.

The reason for non-inclusion of these key characteristics is the lack of knowledge and skill to conceptualize safety issues during system design. As such, a course on “Industrial Safety Engineering” is utmost required to train industry professionals and stake holders on the various aspects of safety engineering and management.

The Indian industries and business enterprises in general have also been aware of the potential benefit of having safe workplaces in terms of increased production, improved productivity and better quality. Today, achieving benchmark safety level is a pride for any organization and has a brand value for business excellence and all out organizational performance. A well-trained group of professionals cutting across different functions and departments of an organization is a prime necessity in order to achieve the goal of industrial safety engineering principles and practices.

Department of Chemical engineering, SIT Tumakuru, being an nationally recognized technical institution of India having a number of experts with proven knowledge, expertise, and research experiences in industrial safety engineering, systems safety design and control and risk management, offers this workshop along with ‘Institute of Safety Management’, bengaluru  for students, faculty,  business and industry professionals.