Cairn India, Asia’s fastest growing E&P company and one of India’s leading upstream oil & gas company, has been awarded the FICCI Safety Excellence award for Manufacturing 2012 for its Ravva oil & gas field in Andhra Pradesh. Cairn India bagged the Platinum award (first prize) under the ‘large size category’. At a ceremony in New Delhi last month, the Union Minister of Labour & Employment, Mallikarjun Kharge, presented the award to Elango P, CEO and Director Strategy & Business Services, Cairn India for exhibiting exemplary and high safety standards in its PKGM-1 block (Ravva field). The selection was based on safety management system, procedure and practice, amongst other parameters. The "Safety Awards" were presented for achieving "exceptional safety performance" during the year.
As a part of the evaluation process, a thorough audit of compliance of Health & Safety Standards by a distinguished panel was undertaken at Cairn India’s Ravva oil & gas fields. The safety systems, procedures, practices and employee participation of the companies was evaluated by an eminent panel of jury which included Dr. R Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India; Sompal, Former Minister of Agriculture and Member, Planning Commission among others. The FICCI Safety Excellence Awards was initiated to recognise organisations with robust safety systems and practices in the manufacturing sector.
In recent past, Cairn India has won safety awards from the Directorate General of Mines Safety in 2010 and 2011, for its Rajasthan oil and gas processing facilities. Recently, Ravva Asset was adjudged winner of "Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD)" Safety Awards for the Year 2010-11 under "Offshore Production Platforms" category.
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