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SAFETY & SECURITY

NATIONAL SAFETY MONTH MARKED FIRE PREVENTION WEEK OBSERVED
O ur Group Safety team - Our Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting observed Annual Fire

led by Grp. Capt. (Retd.)
Prevention Week 2019, themed ‘Fire Prevention is better than
TA Sreenath – observed
awareness on fire and life safety among the Airport fraternity.
National Safety Month from March Firefighting’. The team conducted a series of activities to raise
22 to April 10 to enhance safety The team also participated in a Fire Service Week rally -
awareness for the Airport organised by Karnataka State Fire & Emergency Service - from
community. Our former COO Mr. Cubbon Park to the Karnataka Fire Service Headquarters near
Javed Malik flagged off the event Ulsuru Lake.
by hoisting the National Safety Seven joint mock fire drills and building evacuation exercises
Flag, while Grp. Capt. Sreenath delivered a speech on the were conducted with Airport Partners and concessioners at their
importance of safety. The participants took the oath to ensure premises. A total 1,400 people participated in the evacuation,
safe workplace practices. Our colleagues and stakeholders were while another 1,200 people including Airport Taxi operators, CISF
engaged with multiple events, including Spot the Hazard and personnel and other Airport concessionaire staff were trained in
Snake & Ladder safety games. first-aid, firefighting and fire safety skills during this week.
Spearheaded by the National Safety Council of India, the event is
observed every year to highlight the importance of safety in all
spheres of life. The campaign was comprehensive, general and
flexible with an appeal to the participating stakeholders to
develop specific activities as per their safety requirements.

OBJECTIVES
To reaffirm, to rededicate ourselves towards the
commitment of safety.
To motivate all the stakeholders by appreciating their
contribution towards safety for the year 2018-2019.
To reward and recognise Safety Champions, who played
an exemplary role in safe implementation at work.

Fire Prevention Week is observed
MORE PANTHERS SET TO ARRIVE DID YOU nationwide under the guidance of the

ARFF will now be further KNOW? Fire Advisor, Ministry of Home Affairs,
strengthened as we added Govt. of India. This is in remembrance of
four new advanced the lives lost in the devastating fire that erupted and the
firefighting trucks in our explosions that followed on April 14, 1944 at the Victoria
already formidable fleet of Dock in the Bombay Port, and to create awareness about
Aircraft Crash Fire Tenders. the prevention of fire in all industries. The National Safety
Joining the fleet, are two Council (NSC) has promoted the FSW Campaign since 1999
new trucks - Rosenbauer with a view to propagate Fire Safety awareness among
Panther 8x8 with a High employees, their families and the public.
Reach Extendable Turret
and a Panther 6x6 – the
first-of-its-kind in India. Equipment - comprising Selvaraj Arumugam - DGM ARFF, Sunil
The new trucks will be Kumar VM - AGM ARFF, SK Rout - Manager ARFF, Sujai Wilson – Sr.
commissioned after the Manager V&M and Harish Kumar – Dy. Manager V&M - recently
crew undergoes OEM training in July. This was part of the large visited M/s Rosenbauer at Linz, Austria for Final Acceptance Test
order of four trucks to enhance ARFF’s firefighting capabilities for of Crash Fire Tenders that were specially ordered for NSPR. A
NSPR & T2. The second batch of two ACFTs are expected to be member of the delegation said the FAT tests were successfully
delivered by July 2019. Our teams from ARFF and Vehicle & completed as per the standards.

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