Presenters

● Mukund madhava

● Neha gupta

● Neeraj dani

● Neha soni

● Param sharma
 About Vedanta
● Vedanta Limited is a globally diversified natural
resources company with interests in zinc-lead-silver, Iron
ore, Steel, Copper, Aluminium, Power, Oil and Gas.

● Vedanta focuses on operational excellence, efficient cost

management and sustainability to drive long-term value
for its stakeholders.

● Good governance and sustainable development are at

the core of Vedanta's strategy, with a strong focus on
health, safety and environment, and on enhancing the
lives of local communities.

● The company has been conferred with the CII-ITC

Sustainability Award, a FICCI CSR Award, Dun &
Bradstreet Awards in Metals & Mining, and The Great
Place to Work Award.
Sustainability Model
Some of the ways they contribute include:
● Employment and careers: Directly and

indirectly they employ over 79,000+ people.

● Contributions to governments:They

contributed INR 324 billion to their host

governments through direct and indirect taxes

and royalties.

● Social investments: They have invested US$

17.63 million in community development

initiatives and improved 3.26 million lives.

● Nand Ghar - Nand Ghar is committed towards
eradicating child malnutrition, providing education,
healthcare and empowering women with skill
development. It supports more than 17,000 children
and more than 15,000 women.

● Healthcare - Aids to make available primary health

care facilities and special emphasis on programs
regarding HIV/AIDS awareness.

● Drinking Water & Sanitation - Under this efforts

have been made to provide drinking water and
sanitation facilities available to people at ease.

● Women's Empowerment - In this attempts were

made to empower women, give them employment
opportunities, make them independent and help them
get started with them micro level business.
 Interesting Facts
● About 94% of their waste has
been recycled in the year
2019-20.
● Their contribution to Greenhouse
Gas has reduced by about 16%.
● They managed to conserve 1.4
million GJ of energy.
● In addition to this they have
conserved about 2.3 million cubic
meters of water.
 MINING PROCEDURE
● Their most of the mines are now being opened or
operated with international ESIA standards
(Environmental and Social impact assessment).

● When the mines are closed, they follow rehabilitating

process called TMF (Tailings management facility).

● They use the mind closing fund to rehabilitate the are

with forest or human settlements.

● They grow pastures at these places to produce

fodder for domesticated animals.
 Health & Safety
● 44 of their 52 sites are OHSAS 18001 certified.
(Occupational health and safety assessment
series).

● They embedded a zero-harm culture at their

sites.

● All their subsidiaries run robust on-site training

programmes for both employees and contract
workforce (induction and job-based)
appropriate to the site’s operations and
contextual needs based on the linguistic and
literacy skills of local employees and
contractors.
● Safety training is delivered to employees and
contractors on subjects including working at heights,
permit to work, job safety analysis, first aid, incident
reporting, behaviour-based training Fall off Ground
(FOG).

● They conduct occupational health and wellbeing

programmes relevant to the identified risks of each
operation. These include baseline health studies to
identify key occupational health risks and steps to
mitigate those risks, which are audited through their
VSAP tool.

● Medical screening is also provided to identify and

provide medical treatment of illnesses and diseases
relevant to the location, for example HIV (Zambia)
and malaria (India and Zambia).
● They provide first aid and occupational
health training to employees and
contractors along with site-specific
personal protective equipment (PPE)
and protective clothing.

● All their businesses are well equipped

with occupational health centres to
treat illness and injuries in their
workforce. Medical insurance is
provided to 100% of their full-time
employees whereas contract
employees are covered by either
Employee State Insurance (ESI) or
through Group insurance/workmen’s
compensation.
 Key Safety Focus Areas

• Work at height – awareness of risks related to working at height and ensuring adherence
to the working at height standards

• Fleet safety – aims at avoiding, reducing and minimising serious accidents associated with fleet
movement.

• Lock out – Tag out (LOTO) – energy (electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic) isolation through a proper
lock out – tag out system

• Machine guarding – management of hazards related to rotating and moving machinery.

• Permit to work – awareness and effective implementation of permit to work system

• Pedestrian management – managing pedestrian safety particularly near fleet and machinery.
 Environment
● As part of continual improvement, they planned to
obtain ISO 14001 certification at all sites.

● In accordance with their Sustainability Framework,

they also conduct Environmental and Social Impact
Assessments (ESIA) across all new projects

● They strive for zero environmental incidents and

have a robust internal process, including
categorising incidents according to severity, for
managing any incident that does occur.
 Water
● Their approach is outlined in their water policy and
delivered through their water management
standard.

● They facilitate the integration of water

management into decision-making processes for
new and existing projects, which helps ensure all
necessary measures to avoid or minimise and, in
some cases, compensate for the impacts of their
projects are taken.

● Rain water harvesting is undertaken by HZL,SSL –

Jharsuguda and SSL – Copper and Iron ore
divisions. For many years our Iron Ore division
has met its water requirement through harvesting
rain water.
 VEDANTA CSR POLICY
● Vedanta Limited ('VEDL' or 'the Company') is committed to conduct its business in a socially responsible,
ethical and environment friendly manner and to continuously work towards improving quality of life of the
communities in its operational areas

● Vedanta Limited have a well-established history and commitment to reinvest in the social good of our
neighbourhood communities

Their programs focus on poverty alleviation programs, especially integrated development, which impacts the
overall socio-economic growth and empowerment of people, in line with the national and international
development agendas. The major focus areas include :

1. Children's Well-being & Education

2. Women's Empowerment

3. Health Care

4. Drinking Water & Sanitation

5. Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

6. Skilling the Youth for new opportunities

7. Environment Protection & Restoration

8. Sports & Culture

9. Development of Community Infrastructure

10. Participates in programs of national importance including but not limited to disaster mitigation, rescue,
relief and rehabilitation.
 CONCLUSION

Vedanta is committed to sustainable development, supporting local communities and contributing to the
economies in the areas of its operation

● The Vedanta Board is responsible for all aspects of sustainability across the Group and acts through
the Sustainability Committee.

● The Committee oversees and reviews sustainability performance and the Committee Chairman
regularly updates the Board on its progress.

● Incorporates sustainability in decision making process

Major Areas in which Vedanta has worked to achieve sustainability are :

● Health : prevention, monitoring, support and recovery, community health programs

● Safety : embedding the safety culture and safe behaviour initiatives

● Environment : minimising environmental footprints , achieving zero environmental incidents

● Water : implementing water resource management plan

● Biodiversity : integration of biodiversity and ecosystem conservation into decision-making processes

for new and existing operations.

● Women empowerment ; educating, providing employment

● Energy and climate change : following practices to reduce carbon footprint

● Air quality : regular air quality monitoring in its operations .

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