Int'l conference on occupational safety next week

A global conference on "Vision Zero" focussing on the occupational safety and health issues and challenges in the manufacturing, construction and mining sectors will be held here from March 15-17.
"Zero Vision" is a philosophy that says nobody should be injured due to an accident.
The three-day conference will be organised at Vigyan Bhavan, a labour ministry statement said.
The Directorate General Factory Advice and Labour Institutes (DGFASLI) and German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV), Germany in association with International Social Security Association (ISSA), are organising this conference, the statement said.
The conference aims to focus on the occupational safety and health issues and challenges in the manufacturing, Construction and Mining sector.

It will provide a forum for promoting safety and health at work by exchanging knowledge, practices and experience.

The conference will be inaugurated by Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, in the presence of Labour Secretary M Sathiyavathy.
The conference is expected to introduce the fast emerging internationally accepted concept of "Vision Zero" in India thereby leveraging the efforts of the Government of India to raise the occupational safety and health standards in the country.
The delegates include safety engineers, experts and professionals from different public, private and MNCs sectors, managers, employers from different segments, occupational physicians and health professionals, supervisors, workers and members of the safety committees.

There will be three plenary sessions in the conference during the three days dedicated exclusively to the manufacturing, construction and mines sectors.
An exhibition on OSH is also being organised during the conference from March 15-17, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
The exhibition will provide the most efficient platform to support technological communication and business trade. The exhibition segments will show-case personal protective equipment (PPEs), health at work, high-risk prevention, environmental protection at work, etc, it said.