The Institution’s Innovation Council in association with the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of Paavai Engineering College has organized an online webinar on “National Energy Conservation Day (India)” Online Webinar on Industrial Safety in Mining” through the Microsoft team’s platform on 14.12.2022 from 05.40 p.m. to 06.40 p.m.
The Event started with a welcome address by Kumara Prasad, a Third -year student of the Electronics and Electronics Engineering Department.
The resource person of the day is Mr. I. A. Sathish, Head Safety Manager, Rampura Agucha Mine, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Bhilwara District, Rajasthan. The resource person enlightened us about the importance of mining safety and how to protect workers in mining. He gave a brief note on a lot of safety tips to reduce mining accidents, and he also discussed following safety procedures with modern safety equipment. He said about the people who are hesitant to work in mining due to unsafe working conditions, a lack of proper inspections, and noncompliance with occupational health and safety measures. The speaker shared about the most common causes of mine accidents, and he covered a wide range of workplace safety topics, identifying workplace hazards, implementing workplace safety programmes and providing proper safety training to employees.
Dr.K.SundaraMurthy,Vice President of IIC, Professor of Mechanical, Dr.R.MohanaPriya, Convener of IIC, Associate Professor of ECE and, Prof Dr.G Balaji, Convener Head of Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ,Dr.S.Ramachandran, Member of IIC, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Mr.G.Deivamani ,Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering along with faculty members, internal and external participants were also present in the meeting. The students interacted with the guest speaker with their queries and illuminated themselves. The Webinar ended with vote of thanks Mr. P.VishwaBharath of third year of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
