The company is committed to conserve, promote and maintain health and safety in the work place and encourage attitudes and methods which will lead to improve physical and mental health of employees.

The facilities are overseen by a Medical Officer. There is a dispensary, round the clock services of medical personnel and a well equipped ambulance. All essential life saving instruments, laboratory equipment, lung function test, etc. are provided. For easy reference, employee data is computerised to include visits, complaints, treatment given and follow-up for easy reference.

Eminent Doctors are regularly invited to talk on topics of health awareness.

Highest priority is accorded to maintain high safety standards. Apart from holding weekly fire drills, periodical emergency mock drills are conducted onsite. Safety audits are regularly undertaken by external experts and their recommendations are meticulously implemented. Gas monitoring and detection systems have been installed at toxic gas handling areas. Approved personal protective equipment of international standards are utilized for safe working. The Plant Safety Committee and the Central Safety Committee are very active. There is a widely publicized" Safety, Health & Environment Policy" being diligently followed.

The need for a safe and healthy environment is stressed. An effluent treatment and disposal system was provided in the design stage of the plant itself. Thereafter, advanced pollution control measures have been regularly incorporated.

A centralized domestic effluent treatment plant has been installed. The treated effluent strictly complies with the parameters that are stipulated and is discharged into a green belt of over 80 acres of forest area created within the plant.

During the monsoon, the treated effluent water is pumped to the Arabian Sea at Thaneerbavi beach. A 4.5 kms pipe line is buried underground and another 650 metres is submerged so that the treated effluent water is disposed beyond the beach deep into the sea. The aesthetic appearance of the Thaneerbavi beach has vastly improved on account if this.

Change from a chromate-based program to a non-toxic phosphate based system was made in the cooling water treatment system in 1991.

The ambient air quality is monitored regularly at different locations inside and outside the factory premises. The pollutant concentration is well within the levels stipulated.