Environment, Health & Safety, Purpose :
Environment, Health & Safety, To establish a system for the environment, health and safety procedure. This covers the various steps that are required to be followed for EHS policy.
Environment, Health & Safety, Scope :
This procedure is applies for all the employees, visitors, suppliers, contractual third party employee and all the persons enter into the premises of XX Pharmaceuticals Limited (Both General and Cephalosporin Block).
Definitions / Abbreviation:
[][]QA : Quality Assurance
[][]QC : Quality Control
[][]PD : Product Development
[][]EHS : Environment, Health and Safety
Responsibilities:
[][]The roles and responsibility is as follows:
All Concerned Personnel
[][]To be responsible to follow the SOP
Emergency Response
[][]Team Member
[][]Key personnel to perform their duties as per procedure
Head of Plant Operation
[][]Responsible to ensure the overall procedure
Head of Quality Assurance
[][]Responsible to Assurance the overall procedure
Procedure:
[][]All the concerned personnel to be followed the updated systems for safety, health and environmental Hazards & risks associated with activities and products.
[][]All the personnel should be followed the improve conditions in order to prevent accidents, health hazards & pollutions.
[][]Everyone should be aware of minimization of waste generation, promote recycling and green Chemistry.
[][]Every personnel should be well known about energy consumption.
[][]Reduce harmful solids, liquids and gas generation.
[][]Safety awareness to be created to our suppliers and customers.
[][]The best extent possible to work with suppliers who themselves have sound safety, health and environmental policies.
[][]To set environmental, health and safety objectives and targets by all departments to improve EHS Performance.
Periodic Health Check-up
[][]After the employment of a new employee, health check-up is conducted by plant physician.
[][]Every employee, particularly production, QA, QC, PD and Warehouse department personnel will have to undergo health examination include health status and personal health history.
[][]Health examination covers general status, respiratory tract status, eyes status, skin cleanliness, cephalosporin sensitivity test.
[][]Personal health report covers the details history of his/her health status.
[][]Health report will be preserved by Executive, HR & Admin.
[][]General frequency of health check-up: At least twice a year.
Personal Hygiene
[][]Any person shows at any time to have an apparent illness or open leisions that may adversely affect the quality of products is not be allowed to handle starting materials, packaging materials, in-process materials or drug products until the condition is no longer judged to be a risk.
[][]All employees will report to their immediate supervisor about any conditions (relating to plant, equipment or personnel) that they consider may adverse effect the products. Health, safety and environment department manage record/documentation of each employee’s health status and maintain the record/documentation updating.
[][]Direct contact is avoided between the operator’s hand and starting materials, primary packaging materials and immediate or bulk product. All personnel are trained in the practices of personnel hygiene.
Emergency Responses
First Aid:
[][]All injuries, regardless of how small, must be reported and treated as soon as possible after an injury.
[][]First Aid facilities are located throughout the working areas.
[][]Supervisor will show his/her employee for the facility locations. If anyone becomes injured or ill any here due to an industrial or non-industrial problem and need immediate medical aid, he/she has to report the Emergency Responses Team and go to the nearest first aid facility the medical department or the security desk.
[][]If the immediate aid is not needed, notify his/her supervisor before proceeding to the nearest first aid facility.
[][]Whenever outside medical assistance is needed, designed first aid responder as per annexure-1 or plant head will call for this assistance.
Fire Emergency Procedure
[][]Every employee will be familiarize themselves during their induction training period with the location of the evacuation routes(Primary &Secondary),first aid station or kit, each fire alarm, each fire extinguisher, the nearest public telephone and the location of the stairway (as indicated on the emergency evacuation Diagrams).
[][]If any person discover fire anywhere in the building, immediately active the nearest fire alarm pull box and call the HR & Admin. State his/her name, location and type of fire.
[][]Only consider attempting to extinguish a fire if it is a very minor and every person should have been trained in the proper operation and use of portable fire extinguishers.
[][]Use procedure of fire extinguisher.
[][]Pull the pin of the extinguisher.
[][]Stand about six to eight feet from the fire where aim is the hose at the base of the fire.
[][]Squeeze the trigger.
[][]Mount, Locate and identify extinguishers so that they are readily accessible to employees.
[][]Only approved extinguisher shall be used. Maintain extinguisher in a fully charged and operable
[][]Condition and keep in their designated places at all times except during use.
[][]Soldered or riveted shell inverting type extinguisher shall be permanently removed from service.
[][]Extinguisher shall be visually inspected monthly, maintained annually and hydrostatically tested
[][]Periodically by Engineering personnel.
Fire protection and control
[][]All employees shall know the location and be properly trained in the operation of all firefighting equipment.
[][]Portable fire extinguishers shall be suitable to the conditions and hazards involved. They also will be provided and maintained in good operating condition.
[][]Each extinguisher will be serviced at least once a year and tagged and dated and dated to show this.
[][]An approved safety container shall be used for handling flammable liquids up to five gallons.
[][]The employee should immediately leave the area using the designated evacuation route through emergency exit path.
[][]When evacuating no one should use elevators, keep to the right, walk-not to run and remain calm but take immediate action.
[][]A preplanned procedure has been established to assist non-ambulatory individuals and have to obey the directions of building Emergency Response Officials.
[][]Small fires can spread rapidly and overwhelmed an area. To contain the fire close all doors behind exit the building. Before opening any door of a room or office that leads to the main hallway feel the door first to see if it is hot.
[][]Open the windows for fresh air and hang a sheet or other similar article, out the window to let the HR department to know him are still inside.
[][]If all exists from a floor are blocked or if any reason personnel must remain in a room/office during a fire or other emergency and advice of his location and situation. Wait for the fire department to assist him.
[][]After exiting the building get far away from the building, all staff members are to assemble in the emergency assembly point located east or west corner of the plant premises for accountability.
[][]Everyone should remain outside the building until the management staff informs him/her that it is safe to return to the building.
Plant head will count the total present employee as per total employee list provided by HR Executive to become sure that there is no one remains contact in the fire.
Emergency disaster procedure
[][]Everyone will be familiarizing with the location of the evacuation routes(Primary and secondary) the nearest public telephone and the location of the stairway (as indicated on the Emergency Evacuation Diagrams).
[][]Depending on the disaster the watch period should be used to prepare for an easy transition into the nearest designated emergency assembly point.
[][]Plant head will count the total present employee as per total employee list provided by HR Executive to become sure that there is no one remains contact in risk area for easy rescue.
Annexure:
Annexure-I: Emergency Response Team (General Block & Cephalosporin Block)