SCDL MBA PROJECT - A STUDY ON INDUSTRIAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES                                                                        

LIST OF CHARTS                                                                       

CHAPTER NO.	TITLE	PAGE NO.
1	INTRODUCTION	1
2	REVIEW OF LITERATURE	11
3	OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY	19
4	RESEARCH METHODOLOGY	20
5	DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION	23
6	FINDINGS, SUGGESTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE STUDY	46
7	CONCLUSION	49
8	LIMITATION AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY	50

ANNEXURES

         

          1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

          2. QUESTIONNAIRE

Table  No.	List Of Tables	Page No.
5.1	Age wise classification of  Respondents	23
5.2	Departments in Anglo French Textiles	24
5.3	Service of Employees in the Organization	25
5.4	Employees opinion regarding safety measures	26
5.5	Organization providing any personal protective equipments	27
5.6	Frequency of training programme	28
5.7	Conservancy in case of accidents	29
5.8	Availability of Safety Equipments	30
5.9	Remedial measures taken by the organization	31
5.10	Major causes of accidents	32
5.11	Experienced person doesn’t need training	33
5.12	Disease affects workers in work environment	34
5.13	Frequency of accidents happening	35
5.14	Severity of accidents caused	36
5.15	Causes of great disturbance in work environment	37
5.16	Chemical content of Waste/Effluent	38
5.17	Working conditions provided by the Organization	39
5.18	Safety measures in Organization	40
5.19	Chi-Square analysis of Training on safety and First aid and Met with accidents	41
5.20	Chi-Square analysis of providing personal protective equipments and Methods to improve safety measures	43
5.21	Analysis of various facilities provided by the organization using weighted average method	45

Table  No.	List Of Charts	Page No.
5.1	Age wise classification of  Respondents	23
5.2	Departments in Anglo French Textiles	24
5.3	Service of Employees in the Organization	25
5.4	Employees opinion regarding safety measures	26
5.5	Organization providing any personal protective equipments	27
5.6	Frequency of training programme	28
5.7	Conservancy in case of accidents	29
5.8	Availability of Safety Equipments	30
5.9	Remedial measures taken by the organization	31
5.10	Major causes of accidents	32
5.11	Experienced person doesn’t need training	33
5.12	Disease affects workers in work environment	34
5.13	Frequency of accidents happening	35
5.14	Severity of accidents caused	36
5.15	Causes of great disturbance in work environment	37
5.16	Chemical content of Waste/Effluent	38
5.17	Working conditions provided by the Organization	39
5.18	Safety measures in Organization	40

CHAPTER – I

1.1 COMPANY PROFILE

            The Anglo French Textiles is a Unit of Puducherry Textiles Corporation Limited.  It is a Government of Puducherry undertaking and it is one of the largest composite textile mills in Southern India.

1.1.1 History of Anglo French Textiles

            Anglo French Textiles was started by Mr.Rodier in the year 1898 and was incorporated in England during the same year.  It proudly celebrated its centenary in 1998.  In the beginning stage, Africa and Madagascar were the prominent buyers of Anglo French Textiles.  The exported dyed cloths were popularly known as “Sendura” cloth.

            Unfortunately in the middle of July 1983 there was a persistent labour unrest, which brought down the performance of the mill.  This situation gave way to sell the mill to Sri Jatia and Somania group of Mumbai.  At that time the mill was facing financial crisis due to mismanagement and the besieged by labour problem.  This culminated into stoppage of the operation in the mill and ultimately the mill ceased to the function from July 1983.

            The closure of the mill adversely affected the economy of Union Territory of Puducherry and caused social problems.  The representation of the jobless employee, public and reports of the press made the government of puducherry to reopen the mill.  It also passed an act to nationalize the mill, which came into effect from 24^th December 1985.  (Thereafter it vested absolutely with the government of puducherry initially and immediately, thereafter stands vested with Puducherry Textiles Corporation limited).

           

Now Anglo French Textiles is functioning as three units.  The Unit A and Unit B are within the heart of the city on the Cuddalore highway, and the Unit C is located 10Kms away from the Puducherry city.

1.1.2 The Reasons for the success of the mill are:-

Standard new work norms

Working all 24 hours in a day and 6 days in a week

Various welfare schemes for the workers.

1.1.3 Present Context of Anglo French Textiles

            At present AFT encompasses 3 units where 3000 employees are employed.  The management has planned to modernize the company by installing new machineries in order to produce super fine quality fabric for the export purpose.  It has also set up a “quality term” whose main objective is to get qualification certificate like the ISO 9000 and EN 29000 with its dedicated team with its manifold and materialistic development it is for granted that AFT will become the pride of the Union Territory of Puducherry during the 21^st century.

1.1.4 OBJECTIVES OF AFT   more