Bhubaneswar Hosts Key Safety Training for Chemical and Petrochemical Industries

As a part of Government of India’s Action Plan for Viksit Bharat@2047, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals conducted 3^rd training programme on “Chemical and Petrochemical Industrial Safety” at Bhubaneswar during 10-11^th January 2025 at CIPET: IPT-Bhubaneswar, with focus on Major Accident Hazard (MAH) units in Chemical and Petrochemical Sector.

This program is the part of a series of training programmes that are being organized by the Department on Industrial Chemical Safety covering 2393 Major Accident Hazard units identified across the country. A total of 48 training programmes are planned to cover all these MAH Units over the period of next five years. This training programme witnessed participation of 108 representatives across 62 chemical industries including participants from 41 MAH units.

Technical Experts from IIT, Bhubaneswar, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), MSME Development & Facilitation Office-Odisha, State Pollution Control Board and reputed industries such as IFFCO, Paradeep Phosphate Ltd., Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Jindal Steels & Power delivered lectures on various aspects related to safety.

Thematic areas that were covered under the training programme included Advance Risk Assessment techniques, Toxicology, Onsite & Offsite Emergency Plan, Role of ICT and other technologies in Chemical Safety, Global Harmonized System, Hazardous Identification techniques, Loss statistics and loss Prevention, Process Safety management, Environmental Prevention and Spill prevention, Hazardous Waste Management. Labelling of chemicals and Safety data Sheet (SDS) & Fire and Explosion Safety.

To give the industrial employees a hands-on experience, a mock drill was also conducted in coordination with the State Fire Department, Odisha.