Sustainability

Essar Projects acknowledges the importance of sustainable growth and strives towards enhancing employee wellbeing and ensuring a healthy & safe work place. We are also committed to identifying and addressing the risks associated with climate change and transforming the way we do business into a more ‘sustainable enterprise’. Through continually seeking to improve construction processes and practices we expect to improve our productivity and profitability in the long- term. As part of this journey we aim to maintain the highest standards achievable through our Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental management systems.
Essar Projects Leadership is committed towards providing, a sustainable working environment, free of accident, injury and ill health, realized only by the successful implementation of the HSE Policy with full cooperation and active involvement of all employees, contractors, and other stakeholders, working together to share our ‘we want zero’ vision. The company promotes a strong Health and Safety culture through a high visibility leadership approach throughout the organization. We continuously seek ways to improve our Health and Safety processes to prevent accidents and ill health in all areas of our business operations. We expect all our employees to have the integrity to report hazards, near miss incidents and dangerous occurrences without compromise. The company Management actively engages with the workforce to ensure their health, safety and wellbeing needs and expectations are being met. This includes the right to stop an activity that is unsafe without fear of reprisal. We have certified our Health and Safety Management system through a formal framework provided by compliance and certification to ISO 45001:2018, whilst continuously maintaining International best practice and all statutory Health and Safety legal requirements applicable to the country of operations.
From concept to commissioning, our engineering procurement and construction activities are always planned with careful consideration being given to their impact on the environment. By ensuring the reduction of pollution, carbon footprint, the generation of waste and the use of hazardous substances in our business practices, we aim to protect and sustain local natural resources that our activities affect and the lives and jobs of the people that rely on them. By maintaining our Environmental Management System (EMS), certified to ISO 14001:2015 we ensure compliance with all environmental legislative requirements whilst ensuring a continuous cycle of improvement.
On the “People front”, apart the usual employee engagement initiatives of training & development, recognition and rewards, we have other initiatives like: “Essar-Cares” under the Health and Wellness banner designed for providing/enabling employees to lead healthier and risk free lives; and “Essar – Beyond Work” which strives towards building a more participative, motivated, enthusiastic culture and increase the “happiness & satisfaction quotient”. Besides this, we have the “Employee Assistance Program” (EAP) which outlines our intent for supporting our employees through hardships, worries and crises in their personal or work lives. The EAP program aims to provide employees, confidential access to professional counseling services confronting any problems or worries employees might have around their personal or work life.
While executing projects across some of the tough geographies like Papua New Guinea, there has been conscious effort to contribute to the local community well-being. Our operations not only foster training and development of skills amongst the local people that are hired, but there are proactive CSR initiatives taken up as per requirements. These could be in the form of HIV awareness programmes, participation in local community festivals/ events to enable cultural exchange.