OSH India 2019 Awards Pre-Jury Meet Held at UBM Office in Mumbai

The OSH India Awards were instituted by UBM India in 2013 to recognise and honour the industry’s brightest stars, to identify top innovative organisations and brave employees in the country. Over the last five years the show has established itself as one of the most prestigious and coveted safety awards in India.

This platform gives an opportunity to companies and individuals to be known internationally for their efforts in occupational safety and health. OSH India Awards are open to evaluation for all processes, technologies, and systems that fuel growth through new ideas and approaches while delivering business results in the later years.

The last 5 editions of OSH India Awards have been a grand success, because of the versatility of applications, thoroughness of the evaluation process, and the presence of experts in technology, business and innovation space as the Award Jury. These Awards have been instrumental in building competitiveness among applicants, and have been able to promote and establish thought leadership within Indian industry.

The award aims to recognize innovation in OSH (Occupational, Safety & Health) by organizations across all sectors listed below. The bravery award aims to recognize individuals who have acted bravely and safely to protect / help / save their co-workers or organizations property at the time of a crisis.

The pre-jury meet for this year’s awards was held at the UBM office in Mumbai on 28th May, 2019. The marathon meet held intense discussions to finalise award categories for this year’s awards show.

Awards Categories for 2019

• Innovation In OSH (Organization)

• Safety Bravery Award (Individual)

• Health Implementation

• Environmental Hazards

• Safety Implementation

• Radiation Hazards

• Environmental Impact

• Safety Hazards

• Employee Awareness Campaign

• Chemical & Dust Hazards

• Vicinity Awareness Drive

• Overcoming Economic Hazards

Esteemed Jury members

• Ramesh Bagi, Joint Director (retd), NSC

• Dr. Anup Rakshit, Executive Director, Indian Technical Textiles Association

• Arvind Bodhankar, Corporate Safety Head, Aditya Birla Group

• Rauf Iqbal, Associate Professor--Ergonomics & Human Factors Engineering, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)

• Giriraj Mall, Director, Mallcom

• Shahzed A. Lehry, CEO, Ceasefire Extinguishers & Systems

• Abhay Pathak, Lead Auditor, NABCB

• Clint Pereira, Director, Joseph Leslie

• Dr Reena Valecha, Principal Ergonomic Consultant - Workspace and Ergonomics Research Cell, Godrej Interio

• Dhaval Thakkerr, Director, Ketty Apparels India

• Sunil Mehta, Director, Jayco Safety

All eligible applications shall be evaluated by the Jury who shall determine the final winners by giving scores during the final jury meet to be held in November this year. Applicants shall be contacted for any additional information or/and field visits conducted to verify the information provided. If at any time, including after the conclusion of the awards ceremony, any information provided by any applicant(s), is found to be incorrect in any manner, then the applicant will be liable to be disqualified and/or required to return the Award. The determination of whether information provided is fair and accurate rests with the Jury and Awards Management team.