Association News

A one day seminar on Health, Safety &, Environment in Construction industry was orgnized at the Salt Lake Campus of the Association on April 30, 2005 where delegates from different construction industries participated. Formal inauguration was done by our President Prof. Dr. M. Bhattacharyya when he highlighted the importance of holding such a small group seminar where intense interraction of individual delegates could be addressed to properly, at the backdrop of ever increasing construction activities in India employing mostly unskilled labourers and therefore prone to accident. He wondered that even if Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) were given, they might not be used or even sold off by the labourers themselves for petty gain as the workers mostly lack in safety awareness; on the other hand whether a worker could retain his job insisting on PPE in the market while lakhs are running after such a job!