It had put in place all safety protocols at and around the Statue of Unity, which is of national and international importance. After all, construction at massive heights involve adopting conventional, mechanical and digitalised safety procedures and measures. While digitalisation of safety is the buzzword across all L&T entities, much of the Group’s safety standards and practices emerge from L&T’s own training facility called ‘Safety Innovation School (SIS)’ in Surat's Hazira. The modules encompassing various types of work – at heights, in confined spaces, fire safety, material handling, etc. Over the past two years, several efforts to digitalise the EHS process at L&T Heavy Engineering include the introduction of an online ‘permit to work system’, ‘reported safety concern’, ‘temporary override of safety critical control’ and ‘safety inspection system’.

Source: Hindustan Times March 22, 2021 13:40 UTC