The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCC&I) partnering Synergy Management Services organized a One full day Training cum Workshop on Fundamentals of Industrial Safety and Best Practices in Safety on Friday, 20th September 2019 at BCC&I (Royal Exchange, 6, Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata - 700001). The workshop was organized for appreciation of Safety Best Practices for the engineering/manufacturing professionals and to enable them to have a basic understanding of hazards and risk mitigations with examples and exercises from their work areas. The workshop helped to inculcate Safety culture within the organization and amongst the employees resulting in achieving accident free environment.

The objective of the workshop was to introduce and aware the safety fundamentals to the participants. Besides, the workshop helped in providing enough understanding to the participants on how to identify hazards and assess risk through successful Implementation of Safety Management that could benefit their organizations immensely resulting in Cutting downtime, Improving productivity and Reducing costs in their respective organizations.

Apart from the above and one of the most important objectives was to provide an exposure to the participants on Safety Best Practices which if they implement in their organizations would get more visible safety practices which would help them to imbibe safety culture.

The workshop started with a very positive note and Mr. P K Sen, Member, Manufacturing and MSME Committee, BCC&I gave a brief introduction of the workshop to the participants. The faculty present in the workshop was Mr. Amal Bhattacherjee, Director & Lead Consultant, Synergy Management Services.

Besides, from the Manufacturing and MSME Committee of the Chamber, present were Mr. Debkumar Basu, Chairperson, Mr. P N Gupta, Member and others.

The workshop had encouraged good industry participation comprising of participants mainly from the engineering/ manufacturing fraternity and altogether the total number of participants for the workshop was 40 (forty) approx.

The workshop helped the participants to learn the keys of safety, primarily industrial safety which would help them in better implementation of safety practices in their organizations. The workshop also helped to motivate the participants to inculcate safety culture in different verticals of the system and amongst the employees leading to a safe environment to work in the near future.