FICCI-Signify MoU for productivity
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has signed an MoU with Signify Innovations India Ltd to carry out series of activities, furthering the cause of safety at workplace and highlighting the importance of lighting in workplace safety.
The MoU was signed by Dilip Chenoy, FICCI Secretary General, and Sumit Joshi, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Signify Innovations India Limited.
Chenoy said: “FICCI has been working in the area of workplace safety for the last many years to promote best practices. One of the key aspects of this safety is lighting and our collaboration with Signify marks a significant milestone in our continuous engagement with Netherlands as a country too”.
Joshi added: “We are happy to collaborate with FICCI as knowledge partner for promoting best safety practices at workplace. Signify shall be happy to share how lighting can improve the safety at workplace and improve the productivity of the workforce”.
Both FICCI & Signify, formerly Philips Lighting India Ltd, have agreed to undertake the following activities as part of the MoU:
This comes as initiative of FICCI Taskforce on Manufacturing Excellence which is already working in the area of workplace safety.
Every year FICCI announces its Safety Systems Excellence Awards to recognize best practices in safety systems for workplace safety.
FICCI will announce the eight edition of its awards shortly.
Jointly develop Vision Document for the Industry on the Importance of Lighting in Safety and Productivity within the Industrial Environment.
Developing an Assessment framework, scoring parameters and Ranking System with respect to lighting parameters for FICCI Safety Systems Excellence Awards.
To train auditors to check the lighting or relevant parameters from an award ranking perspective and do the assessment.
Factory visits to Signify Experience center and R & D facility for the plant heads, operations manager, facility/project managers of the key Industry members of FICCI. fiinews.com
