National Safety Day/Week is celebrated annually in India from March 4-11 to raise awareness about safety in workplaces and reduce industrial accidents. The campaign has been spearheaded for nearly three decades by the National Safety Council to mark its foundation day on March 4. The objectives of the campaign are to promote safety, health, and environment movements across different industrial sectors and involve employees in safety activities through a participatory approach. The 2016 theme is "Strengthen Safety Movement To Achieve Zero Harm." Previous themes focused on building a safety culture, managing workplace stress, ensuring safe workplaces, and establishing a preventative safety culture.

1. Happy 45th National Safety Day / Week
4th – 11th March 2016
Casual + Safety  Casualty
Prepared By : Vasant Oak
DGM EHSS

2. Significance / Background
• The National Safety Day/Safety Week Campaign being
spearheaded by the Council for nearly three decades to mark its
Foundation Day (4th March).
• This has significantly contributed to reduction in the rate of industrial
accidents and created wide spread safety awareness even in such
sectors which have not been covered by any safety legislation.
• The campaign is comprehensive, general and flexible with an
appeal to the participating organisations to develop specific activities
as per their safety requirements

3. Objective
• To take Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) movement to different
parts of the country.
• to achieve participation of major players in different industrial sectors at
different levels.
• to promote use of participative approach by employers by involving their
employees in SHE activities.
• to promote development of need-based activities, self-compliance with
statutory requirements and professional SHE management systems at
work places.
• to bring into the fold of voluntary SHE movement sectors, which have not
so far been statutorily covered.
• to remind employers, employees and others concerned of their
responsibility in making the workplace safer.

4. • National Safety Day/Week is celebrated on national level all over the
country to aware people about safety including the various health
and environmental movements.
• It is celebrated to get the goal of great level of the public
participation to play the major safety roles in different industrial
sectors.
• Through the campaign celebration it is largely promoted the
utilization of participative approach by the owners of the company by
promoting their staffs in the safety, health and environmental
activities.
• Through this campaign, the need-based activities, self-observance
with legal requisites and professional SHE (safety, health and
environmental) activities are encouraged among staffs at the work
places.
• Work place safety is promoted to a great level by reminding the
employers and employees including other staffs of their legal
responsibilities.
• To get the goal of developing and strengthening the SHE activities
among people to the workplaces.
• Serve the society with preventive culture and scientific state of mind
by organizing a safety approach.

5. Themes of National Safety Day/Week
•National Safety Day/week theme of 2016 is
“Strengthen Safety Movement To Achieve Zero Harm”.
•National Safety Day/week theme of 2015 was “Build a
Safety Culture for Sustainable Supply Chain”.
•National Safety Day/week theme of 2014 was “Manage
stress at Workplace and Control Hazards” and “Safety: It
Takes All of Us”.
•National Safety Day/week theme of 2013 was “Working
Together to Ensure Safe and Healthy Workplace”.
•National Safety Day/week theme of 2012 was “Ensure
safe and healthy working environment – A fundamental
human right”.
•National Safety Day/week theme of 2011 was “Establish
and maintain preventative safety and health culture”.

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