Safety Guidelines for Iron & Steel Sector

The Iron & Steel industry is hazardous in nature and concerted efforts are needed by all the stakeholders to ensure safe working environment to the employees and also to prevent/ eliminate accidents.
Ministry of Steel during 2019 & 2020undertook extensive interactions with the stakeholders from the steel industry, the industry associations and the academic institutions of repute to evolve a set of common minimum guidelines for safety which can act as a minimum safety benchmark for adoption by the Indian steel industry. To facilitate formulation of these guidelines, Ministry of Steel constituted a core team of experts in the form of a Working Group comprising experts from the stakeholders.
As an outcome of the valuable inputs & efforts of the stakeholders, twenty five safety guidelines for the Iron & Steel Sector have been formulated. These guidelines pertain to specific activities/ hazards faced by the Indian steel industry (both large & small). These guidelines were uploaded in Ministry of Steel’s website and the stakeholders from the Indian steel Industry have been urged for adoption of these guidelines wholeheartedly.These twenty fivesafety guidelines in the form of a book viz. “Safety Guidelines for the Iron & Steel Sector”, was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Steel Minister on 17th February 2020.
Subsequently, to move the initiative further, in 2022 it was decided to formulate Process Based Safety Guidelines for the Iron & Steel Sector, based on the specific processes adopted by the sector. To carry out the exercise, small teams of members were formed according to their areas of expertise to discuss and evolve each of the process based safety guidelines. Each of the guideline was prepared by the respective team leaders in consultation with the members of the group. Subsequently, these guidelines were reviewed in the meetings of the Working Group/ Sub Group under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary, Ministry of Steel and given the final shape in the meeting held on 21st May 2024 under the chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Steel.
These process based safety guidelines comprise of 16 guidelines, out of which 4 guidelines are on workplace safety and 12 guidelines are on specific iron & steel making processes. These guidelines in the form of volume 2 of the book viz. “Safety Guidelines for the Iron & Steel Sector” was formally launched by the HSM on 25th July 2024.

The copies of the two books can be downloaded from the links given below:

Download Safety Guidelines For Iron & Steel Sector (15.6 MB)