NEW DELHI: India has issued guidelines to ensure the safe restart of manufacturing facilities, after a weeks' long nationwide lockdown aimed at ...
Municipal workers decontaminate outside of the LG Polymers Plant following a gas leak at the plant in Visakhapatnam, India, May 8, 2020. NEW DELHI: India has issued guidelines to ensure the safe restart of manufacturing facilities, after a weeks' long nationwide lockdown aimed at stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus.at a plant in southern India operated by a subsidiary of South Korean petrochemicals maker LG Chem.
The National Disaster Management Authority , in a statement issued late on Saturday, said companies should consider the first week of restarting operations as a test run and not attempt to achieve high production targets during the period. It said the lockdown may have resulted in residual chemicals in pipelines, valves and other areas that could pose a risk. It also said companies must ensure staff are trained to identify abnormalities that could indicate potential system failures.India, which has recorded about 63,000 coronavirus cases, imposed one of the world's strictest lockdown programmes from Mar 25 to prevent the spread of the pandemic. The lockdown is set to last until at least May 17.
Asia's third-largest economy, however, has recently begun to ease curbs in areas with fewer infections to restart economic activity that had ground to a halt, impacting the livelihoods of tens of millions of people. The NDMA said factories must also carry out complete safety audits of entire plants before restarting activities.
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