JSW steel plant reports zero COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 cases at JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works, the biggest single location steel manufacturing facility of JSW Steel Ltd. situated in Ballari, which was the biggest COVID-19 cluster within the State at one time, got here to zero on Wednesday.

Vinod Nowal, Deputy Managing Director of JSW Steel Ltd., praised the dedication by the plant administration, workers, and Jindal Sanjeevani Hospital, for the achievement.

“We have successfully managed to flatten the infection curve at our plant in Ballari with no new cases reported in the recent past. This is the effort of concerted efforts and commitment of the leadership team and every employee at the plant. At the same time, we continue to stay alert as the fight against coronavirus has not ended. JSW Steel will continue to keep a close vigil and follow strict safety guidelines issued by the government to keep our employees and communities safe,” Mr. Nowal stated in a press launch on Wednesday.

During the previous couple of months, JSW Steel undertook a number of measures to make sure the protection of its workers and the local people at its manufacturing facility in Ballari. It transformed its Jindal Sanjeevani Hospital and OP Jindal Training Centre at Ballari into full-fledged COVID-19 Care Centres. It recognized essentially the most important workforce to maintain the steel plant operational and ensured the protection of all different workers providing work-from-home facility. It constituted a number of governance committees, headed by senior JSW officers, to make sure full adherence to well being and security pointers, together with social distancing to manage or minimise the unfold of an infection.

A fever centre was arrange throughout the plant’s premises to verify and detect early signs of Influenza-like Illness and Severe Acute Respiratory Infection. A staff of medical doctors and paramedics have been made out there round the clock on the centre. A 24×7 helpdesk was set as much as help workers and their members of the family with info and demanding medical help by means of cell and e-mail together with rapid hospitalisation and help to workers contaminated with the virus. It had additionally undertaken an enormous company testing programme to make sure COVID-19 testing of all workers to judge and include an infection dangers.

“Support was extended to local communities to contain the spread of the virus. The community health monitoring project team of JSW Foundation conducted door-to-door basic screening to record COVID-19 related symptoms of 22,000 people in 5,100 households across seven surrounding villages. JSW Steel continues to undertake stringent safety measures to keep its plants and townships safe through regular sanitisation of offices, shop floors, company vehicles, buses and common areas like ATMs at regular intervals,” Mr. Nowal added.