Environment, Health & Safety

EHS Management System: Doing business responsibly

The environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) program is managed according to the framework that sets out consistent standards of employee health and safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. This framework acts as an internal regulatory system that reflects our understanding of risks to ensure our operations comply with laws and regulations. Our integrated EHS management system is further evaluated regularly to identify areas for continual improvement.

By thoroughly tracking our performance, we are able to spotlight our successes in eliminating or reducing our EHS impacts. By tracking all EHS issues, quickly and responsibly, we are able to identify key areas where we need to focus on improving our performance.

ZAC Laboratories has improved energy efficiency and reduced emissions program for its various operations. Our strategy is to focus on continuous improvement by striving to learn from our experience and those of others, and to apply scientific, economic and technical analysis to adopt best practices.

EHS Culture

As an industry leader, we are committed to promoting economic growth in a safe, secure, and environmentally responsible manner.

We, promote a positive and open environment across our businesses, supported by effective communication between management, employees, and contractors and an ongoing program of investment in safety.

Our management team and employees know that the sustainable long–term future of our businesses rests on our track record on Environment, Health, and Safety. Employees and contractors throughout the Company participate in EHS programs, contribute to investigations and incident learning, and suggest ongoing improvements in EHS standards and procedures.

EHS Policy

We are committed to manufacturing and supplying bulk drugs, drug intermediates, and pharmaceutical formulations with due respect to the environment, health, and safety aspects and legal requirements associated with our operations and personnel.

We shall demonstrate the effective implementation and continual improvement of environmental, occupational health, and safety management systems through awareness, sharing information, training, provision of resources, periodic reviews, monitoring and measurement, prevention of incidents, conservation and promotion of environment through tree plantation, waste reduction, recovery of solvents chemicals.

At ZAC Laboratories, we are committed to integrating design for the environment and safety principles into our operations, management processes, and products, and achieving an incident–free and injury–free environment for our employees and contractors in the following ways:

Environment

We aim to use natural resources efficiently and by constant monitoring and preventive actions, minimize the environmental impacts of our activities and products during their life cycles. We ensure this through well-designed systematic storage and use of chemicals, safe disposal of effluent material, control of gas emission, and by adopting methods of resource conservation such as recycling of water at our plants through the reverse osmosis process.

Health
We protect the interests of employees by providing them with appropriate and up–to–date training and access to development programs. Health monitoring of employees includes regular health check-ups, special health checks for employees working in hazardous areas, eye, audiometry, and Lung Function tests, first aid training, and other training workshops.

We also have an in–house dispensary equipped with first aid Centre and a 24×7 ambulance facility.

Safety
At Ipca, the process safety program applies management systems to the identification, understanding, and control of process hazards to prevent process-related incidents that could affect our employees or neighbors.