
Hyderabad: Water Board holds ‘Safety Awareness Week’

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and also Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) on Wednesday arranged a ‘Safety Awareness Week at Work’ program in all its departments. The board team, consisting of employees, took a promise for taking precaution and also make certain making use of security devices while working.
Addressing the team, board handling supervisor Dana Kishor claimed, “the aim of the security week is to create awareness on safety measures to be taken by workers and staff on duty and precautions to be taken by the public at open manholes.”
The program was arranged in any way board departments in GHMC restrictions and also under ORR (Outer Ring Road) restrictions. Public reps and also board authorities joined the understanding program.
According to Dana Kishor, a week-long understanding programs on sewer administration and also security will certainly be carried out for sewer team from May 25. They will certainly concentrate on employees’ method to what to do and also what not to do in wastewater administration, correct method to make use of security devices, advantages to be stemmed from it, and also method to be taken on while embarking on hygiene job. The team has actually been advised to establish barriers.
He claimed that the board is making use of mini air technology equipments for unmanned hygiene job like no place else in thecountry “Equipment such as network fracture has actually been developed to tidy manholes with equipments. Due to this, cleansing of manholes was being done without any kind of human treatment. On the execution of Standard Operating Procedure standards on hygiene job, he clarified the efficiency of security devices, just how they are made use of, the preventative measures to be taken while cleaning up manholes, along with any kind of unintentional incident of workers in situation of a crash throughout task administration.
The board GMs have actually routed all sewer employees in the location to be alerted of demand to put on security devices, such as handwear covers, gumboots, masks and also bodysuits, to make certain that they do not fall short to do task.
Officials claimed there are greater than 5 lakh manholes in the city. The residents need to not dispose waste like hair shampoo packages, plastic/food waste, containers, cushions, rugs, polythene covers, glass items, rocks and also blocks in manholes. They encouraged the residents to effectively create silts in houses and also industrial structures.
The board has actually asked the residents to speak to client treatment and also helpline 155313 for any kind of problem pertaining to sewer.
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