1EHS Edition 2

भारत (INDIA)
2021Edition II
EHS Program
1 A Sparrow Initiative
www.sparrowrms.in
About 1EHS
1EHS Program
EHS Program
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1EHS program is India’s first EHS community
research program (1st edition was extremely
insightful & useful for EHS community). It
provides deep insight on standards, trends,
future need, employment, growth potential,
perception and most importantly the pattern
of growth. It is India’s one of a kind annual
research done by Sparrow Risk Management
to find out all the latest trends in EHS
segment in India, what the people associated
with EHS think about the upcoming
technologies, new laws, and what is necessary
to do in order to make all the premises safer
and risk free.
As a consulting & technology company, we

believe it's our responsibility & affection
towards EHS fraternity to bring the annual
EHS insights
About the data
We reached out to more than 3000 EHS professionals in India ,

this year, for the in depth survey, considering all sectors,
experience & knowledge segmentation.
Collected the insights spanning over 11,000 data points
Participants across 3 levels of EHS hierarchy - Senior, Middle &

Entry level EHS professionals
3200 Man hours spent for collection & analyzing data*
18 sectors covered
*sample size may vary with questions as
only complete entries were considered
(C) Sparrow Risk Management Pvt. Ltd., www.sparrowrms.in 1

CEO's Desk
What a year it has been, when we started our 1EHS program

(Edition I) a year ago, it was the peak of the pandemic, but we did
not allow COVID to dampen our energy & continued our work for
EHS (Environment Health and Safety) community – a community
which is small but closely knit.
This year’s 1EHS Insight Report (Edition II) is deeper and more data
driven, it mesmerizes your thoughts on endless possibilities of
growth in EHS. It focuses on future trends, perception &
possibilities in EHS perspective Personal Career & Growth,
Sustainability, Role of technology, Process Safety, Road Safety to
name a few. We have also updated the data nodes for career
Mr. Pawan
orientation & related educational institution demand along with
Director & CEO, global certification indexes.
Sparrow Risk Management

This report took us more than 3 months (> 3200 man-hours) - to
collect data, to analyze and to add value by our mentors (refer
their messages in coming pages). In today’s competitive world, we
decided to dedicate our key resources for this project, just for two
things – our love & responsibility towards the community which
helped us to reach where we are, today!!! Our fantastic journey
would not have been possible without EHS fraternity support and
well-wishers, alongside we kept our promise of world class
solution delivery.
The coming 2 to 3 years, for us, shall be extremely critical

perspective growth & our new product IndustryOS – a
digitalization enabler for Industries. We have dedicated our last 2
years in R&D of advanced technologies totally inhouse! The reason
"The more the number is our foundation to recognize & solve a problem – we believe
of Failures & Rejections, in innovation – we cannot remain non-responsive! We believe that

IndustryOS shall lead the future of Industrial digitalization
the more you are close including EHS.
to Success!!!
Sincere thanks to our team of interns from IIM Indore & NITIE
Let us Fail more." Mumbai, our respected mentors and colleagues back at home i.e.,
Sparrow.
Science has moved with a lot of pace than our learning capability –
सपने और सु कू न ,
we are catching up with more R&D in focus.
स लयत से कभी साथ नह होते !
Enjoy reading and utilizing the great insights ahead.
(C) Sparrow Risk Management Pvt. Ltd., www.sparrowrms.in

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Message from the Mentors
Mentors
This is one of the great initiative taken by Sparrow

under leadership of Mr. Pawan. I am delighted to be part Thakur Pherwani,
of this extensive SHE research. I have shared my insight
Global Head SHE &
around the role of safety leadership in COVID time and the
future, perspective of leadership in challenging times. sustainability,
I have also gone through the research outcome and it seems Dr. Reddy's
to be very much valuable for young and aspiring SHE
Laboratories
resources. More power to the Sparrow team, and best
wishes.
This is a great initiative in engaging a thought building Process on EHS

S Srinivasan,
as a serious Business Priority. Sparrow has taken up this ambitious noble
AVP - task and providing a continuous learning and upgrading platform in close
Manufacturing, collaboration with the Industry. Best Wishes and look forward to
Pernod Ricard co-learn and implement
My heartiest congratulation
to Sparrow and their (Durga Shakti)
Team for generating industry insight called as
“1EHS Program”. The way you are creating this culture will
certainly lead to new dimension on the EHS industry and
professional. This goes true with the cardinal principal “You will
achieve the level of safety that you demonstrate you want to
achieve”. This culture change is evolutionary and revolutionary that
mean a paradigm shift i.e. shifting the focus from operators error
to focusing on culture and management system that influence
safety behavior of not any individual but industry. EHS workspace is
waiting for young diverse professionals with fresh revolutionary ideas
Saurabh Srivastava,
to make workplace safe. I wish this report to reach all industry leaders Head H&S Compliance
so that they understand the great work done by your team in -South Asia, ASEAN &
collecting and analyzing mammoth data for the benefit of employee
NoA,
Health & Safety.
Thanks for giving me opportunity to be part of this fantastic Reckitt
journey.
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Mentors
“Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage
Gyanesh Pathak,
of time ‘’ – Arthur Ashe.
I would like to say ‘Team Sparrow’ have earned this Trust in
Head EHS,
the EHS fraternity. I have closely watched them over the past few years Bennett Coleman
and have grown fond of their approach, passion and perseverance to and Co. Ltd.
work on every minute details to be as authentic as possible.
I congratulate them for achieving another forte by releasing
(Times Group)
their second edition of 1EHS & would like to appreciate
the insights provided in the edition. My wishes to them for
their future endeavors.
"Absolutely
great insights covering
all aspects from industry
requirements to employability, from the
current status of EHS to what the future holds.
Congratulations to Team Sparrow for coming out with the
second edition of 1EHS Survey so beautifully to help thought
leaders in this space work on a strategy to meet the ever growing
industry demands on different facets of EHS and Sustainability. Step
Pankaj Singh,
up from the maiden edition in spite of the country going through such a
Head of Road Safety, difficult time of COVID pandemic which clearly shows the grit, resilience
India and passion to support the larger EHS community with deep insights and
Holcim Group (ACC help the ecosystem be 'future ready'. While we see the area of industrial
safety and environmental compliance maturing due to the legislative
and Ambuja framework and focus of the industry, the future is clearly about 'beyond
Cements) compliance'. This can only be achieved if the academia and corporate
work hand in hand to bring out industry ready EHS professionals who
are ready to talk the language of digitization and sustainability, who
cares road safety as much as process safety, who bring value
rather than just meet legal requirements. Health will get much
deserved focus across the globe due to the ongoing
pandemic and shall continue to be one major area of
expenditure going forward, I will put my bet
on Digital, Road Safety and
Sustainability as three key
“Many compliments to Sparrow team ably led by Mr. Pawan for verticals that will see
initiating this unique initiative. Frankly, I never came across such exponential
an excellent research and compilation of data which is an eye-opener growth"
on many aspects. I am delighted to be part of this journey and interact

with budding talent from the top-notch institutes in India. The interaction
with such talent is always pleasing and value adding with some insightful Milind Datar,
questions. I hope, I have been able to add value to them and wish them Head Quality, Safety
a bright future in the EHS domain. My best wishes to Sparrow team
& Environment,
in this exciting journey."
Pernod Ricard

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Mentors
“Team Sparrow has my heartfelt gratitude for their

unwavering dedication and efforts in presenting EHS insight,
version 2 to the public. Insight covers a wide variety of
challenges in the EHS area and adds a fresh dimension to the
Aravind Appi,
discussion. The article clearly spells out advanced technology is the DGM Corporate
way of the future when it comes to production efficiency, safety, Safety Lead,
and reliability. Industry 4.0 innovations are already shown
Mahindra Group
tremendous potential for rapid improvements and a slew of benefits
to organizations all over the world, with increasing applicability
taking reliability into account as part of the safety measure, a
welcome concept. Also, I applaud the team for addressing
gender bias in the field of EHS; I believe it is a matter of
unconscious gender bias, which the current generation
should help to address. Thank you for your
efforts, and best wishes for your
future success”
First of all Kudos to Team Sparrow for realizing the dream

of their CEO in to reality !!! I went through the 1EHS report and its
Ajay Tiwari, well-researched and covering all dimensions of EHS (which is generally
Corporate OHS being overlooked) like career aspects, gainful utilization of EHS resources,
Head, Safety culture, budget, gender etc. The insights given on digitization front is
noteworthy and thought provoking whether existing safety digital platforms
Birla Corporation are helping business continuity or not in terms of predictive analysis and
Limited effective tool for management’s decision making!
Best Wishes for Grand Success of 2nd Edition ! Cheers !!!
#1EHS #SparrowRocks #EHSFraternity

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The Team
Amala Varsheni Manasa Bhukya

IIM Indore IIM Indore
Aishwarya Gupta Nehal Patni

NITIE, Mumbai NITIE, Mumbai
Anupama Anil Kumar Piyush Vasava

IIM Indore Sparrow Risk Management

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Contents
Table of Contents
Job opportunities .....................................................09
Education ..................................................................13
Certification .............................................................16
Role of EHS Professionals .......................................17
Career Growth. .........................................................19
Safety Culture .........................................................22
EHS Budget...............................................................26
Road Safety ..............................................................29
Digital Transformation ............................................32
Safety ........................................................................35
Process Safety Management ...................................37
Environment & Sustainability..................................41
ESG goals ..................................................................45

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12% increase in Team size expected overall
More demands for Experienced EHS professionals
OSHA
RLI >> MTech

NEBOSH
3%
Women representation
in EHS
18% Use of automated digital

tools for data collection
60%
Organizations have Process
Safety Management program
50% Organizations record GHG emissions

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Job Opportunities
Perception among EHS professionals towards increase in Job opportunities

We asked the respondents if they saw any increase in the job opportunities in their own organization and whether
their organization was hiring more professionals this year. To understand the difference in requirements due to
pandemic and economic slowdown as well as the additional responsibilities of health & safety due to COVID - 19, we
asked the entry level & the middle management employees about it and here's what we got and why.
Entry Level - Perception for increase in job opportunities
Remained Same
Increased
Decreased
0 20 40 60
Middle Management - Perception for increase in job opportunities
Remained Same
Increased
Decreased
0 10 20 30 40 50
Factory Corporate Overall
Overall, 47.9% Middle management professionals said that they saw a increase in job opportunities in their
companies, while 36% middle management professionals disagreed that there was no significant change in
opportunities, while 16% felt that the opportunities had actually decreased in their organization. Middle management
positions were significantly higher in demand during the previous year in the corporate compared to entry level posts
with 46.8% professionals believed that opportunities increased in corporate for middle management while only 14.8%
felt that opportunities increased for entry level posts in corporates.
With the above data and talking to multiple professionals in EHS fraternity, we get an
impression that due to COVID - 19, the companies felt the requirement of more experienced
professionals from middle management level and more than 5 years of experience in the field
rather than hire and train entry level employees.

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Job Opportunities
New job openings in the organization

Entry Level Professional's take:
When asked about possible new openings in their organization, New openings in the organization
employees from entry level responded that the growth in team size was entry level team's perception
very less, with 70% professionals saying there might be no openings at all
More than 10
or less than 5 openings when it came to EHS department. On a brighter
7.9%
5 to 10
side, 22% professionals thought their organization might need additional
22.4%
5 -10 professionals for EHS related duties by next year and 8%
professionals were optimistic that the number might go above 10.
Respondents mentioned that the pandemic affected the job opportunities
with the entry level being hit the hardest among the 3 tiers in EHS as no
company wanted to invest in training fresh recruits.
"We can infer from the data that demands for entry
Less than 5
level EHS jobs decreased, especially at the corporate
69.7%
level while middle level job opportunity increased,
70% respondents voted there
showing high rotation among the EHS professionals
might be no openings at all or
from one organization to another rather than absolute less than 5 openings when it
came to EHS department.
increase in total EHS jobs"
Senior Management's take:

To confirm about the perception about the entry level towards less opportunities in organizations for EHS roles, we
asked the respondents from the Senior management about their current team size and their plans to increase the head
count of the total team members.
Looking at the team size, we analyzed the data from approximately 100 organization & averaged out the number of
team members by taking the middle values i.e. for a range of 10 - 20, we take 15 as the average value for further
calculations.
We found there were roughly 8000 EHS professionals in the organization sample taken, with approximately 60% being
permanent employees & rest contract basis.
Analyzing the data about the planned increase, the total number goes to 9000 employees after planned intake.
We get a 12% increase in the headcount

compared to the current team size considering
the sample size of approx. 100 organizations.

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Job Opportunities
Team Size vs Planned increase

for this year
1950
Less than 30
2178
Organizations having team
1495
30-100
1664
size of
1050
100-200
1185
3600
more than 200
4040
0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000
Current number Planned number of

of total total professionals
professionals
Comparing the perceptions of middle level professionals, entry level professionals and Senior
management, we get a clarity that though the organizations are planning a 12% intake, the
actual number of fresh EHS job opening for entry level might be less as the organizations are
focusing on hiring professionals with experience above 5 years.

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#LinkedIn Facts (Global data)
NEBOSH shall be too generic to be valued as a world-

class certification. More specific engineering driven
certification will hold the key to future EHS
opportunities.
1,45,000 NEBOSH Certified professionals on LinkedIn
63,000 IRCA Certified professionals on LinkedIn
45,000 OSHAS Certified professionals on LinkedIn
17,000 IEMA Certified professionals on LinkedIn
6,900 RLI Certified professionals on LinkedIn
"EHS Leaders from industry give higher preference to full time

courses like RLI rather than few certifications such as NEBOSH or
OSHA."

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Education
Educational Requirement for EHS professionals

While there are multiple combinations of courses and certificates through which one may enter into the EHS field, we
asked the entry level teams about their highest qualifications and compared the same with the practical requirements
expected by the senior and middle management when they hire for entry level positions.
50%
Highest qualifications - Entry Level
40%
Perception of entry level employees
if core engineering knowledge help
30% to better perform EHS duties
20%
10% 97%
0%
B.tech Mtech Others PGDM
97% of the respondents from entry level believed that core engineering knowledge helps in
fulfilling EHS duties. This is evident with the highest qualifications of the entry level with over
70% having BTech/MTech degrees while the rest specializing in other services or management
with or without engineering as base.
20 Education impact on leadership role Education & Leadership roles:

aspirations With higher technical qualifications,
professionals felt their probability of
15
making it to top leadership positions
increased with MTech qualifications
10 inspiring more confidence than BTech

when we see the drop in "low
probability" for MTech and in general
5 more positive response from MTech
qualified respondents.
0
BTech MTech Others PGDM
Low Not possible Very High Very Low
Respondents having MTech showed more confidence about cracking

leadership roles in their career compared to the others

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Education
College preference & rankings
Speaking about the colleges from which the senior management EHS leaders would like to
hire, NITIE Mumbai takes the lead in preference with IIM Lucknow, IIT Kharagpur ranked 2nd
and Anna university behind them. Although this preference was limited to the above 4
colleges, Industry leaders have specifically mentioned colleges such as NIT Trichy, Regional
Labor institute & open preference to other major engineering colleges such as all major IITs,
private colleges offering specializations.
Hiring v/s Studying

Talking to the middle management, we asked them both questions - Where would they like to go to pursue higher
studies & from which colleges would the prefer to hire. As expected, there were slightly different result when
comparing both answers raising a though of criteria such as job role, salary & specialization mattered more when it
came to hiring.
Hiring v/s Study preferences - Middle Management
Anna University
Cochin University
IPS Indore
NIT Trichy
NITIE, Mumbai
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum
UPES, Dehradun
0% 10% 20% 30%

Hiring Study
While the respondents from the middle management preferred to study in NIT Trichy (23.5%), UPES (21%), NITIE
(29.4%), etc. when it came to hiring, they had positive preference towards Anna University, Cochin university with
2.7% and 2.6% more preference to hire than to study in these colleges respectively. These few minor differences in
the hiring pattern and studies indicate the budget restrictions where companies prefer to hire from a step below the
top tier colleges. This may also mean specializations are more preferred which are not available in those colleges.
Respondents had the highest preference to hire from NITIE, NIT Trichy & UPES Dehradun ,
with the same results for college preference to study for higher studies as well. But not all
who wanted to study from these top tier colleges wanted to hire from them, showing positive
difference in hiring vs studying for colleges like Anna University, Cochin university & IPS
Indore.

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Education
Getting Ready for Future - Perspective EHS
Skills
When asked about which skills or education was more important while thinking about the near future of EHS,
Employees from the middle and entry level gave their preference according to this:
38.69% EHS employees feel the need for core engineering knowledge which can integrate with the EHS field while
24.62% felt much more appreciation towards data analytics in accordance to the IOT and AI based software coming
into the EHS market and making data a bigger parameter while performing EHS duties, and 36.68% respondents
weighted towards the more conventional methods of certifications & specialization.
Skills that will be more important in coming

years - Entry level & Middle Management
Data Analytics
24.62%
Core Engineering
38.69%
Specialization
36.68%
We see an upcoming trend for Data analytics after the advent of multiple software in the EHS
field with data increasing in size due to IOT and AI based tools. While the Current perception
about core engineering knowledge is at 97%, the future sees a higher value for more
specialized skills & data analytics.

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Certifications
In recent years, the growing need and demand for EHS-based skills and certifications has resulted in an outstanding
marketable skillset. Every EHS Personnel has few certifications listed on LinkedIn while others are actively pursuing
more certifications. To understand the importance of these certifications from a practical point of view, we compared
how these additional skill sets fare in real life expectations. We asked the entry level respondents about what
certification or skill set do they think is valuable and compared them with the expectations of EHS professionals
having more than 5 years of experience in the field to see if the expectations of entry level personnel was in line
with seniors or not.
Senior Management Expectations
IEMA/EMS
5%
M.tech
18%
RLI
45%
NEBOSH
21%
OSHA
Entry Level Perception 7% Middle management Perception
IEMA/EMS IEMA/EMS
8% 2%
RLI
23%
M.tech
25%
RLI
41%
OSHA
6% M.tech
34%
NEBOSH
NEBOSH 20%
26% OSHA
10%
There comes a stark difference between the perception of entry level EHS respondents and
more experienced set of professionals in the industry. While the Middle management and
senior management views are very similar to each other, giving higher priority to RLI
(Regional Labor Institute) with more than 40% upper management professionals responded
they would prefer to hire professionals with RLI certification much more than MTech,
NEBOSH or OSHA.

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Role of EHS Professionals
Typical duties of Entry Level EHS Professionals

Entry Level - Primary role:
Out of the total work, 30% respondents mentioned that their primary role at the site was that of data collection. 26%
were involved in training while 21% were just supporting the seniors which leaves them very little to do anything on
their own accord and implement new ideas. These all roles can be assumed by digital tool which may leave the
employees more time for productive implementation of new SOPs, inspections and actionable work rather than just
recording data.
Entry Level - Primary role distribution
Violation reporting
14.3%
Collection of data
29.9%
Vendor management
9.1%
Training
26% Supporting seniors
20.8%
Entry Level daily job repetition
>70%
0-20%
20-40%
40-70%
0 10 20 30 40
Corporate Factories
Analysis show that the Entry level EHS personnel spend up to 70% time in repetitive
tasks.
Out of the total Entry level professionals, 31% professionals belonging to factories said
they have 20 - 40% repetitive work where else 36% professionals of factories said that
their tasks involve 40-70% repetitive work. We believe that it needs disruption.

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Role of EHS Professionals
India depends highly on man power rather than technology. As evident by the percentage time spent by ground level
employees on repetitive work, we see a stark difference in the corporate vs factory setting. Companies have
implemented technology at corporate level but factories still remain dependent on man power. It is also true that at
corporate level, the requirements are less as compared to factory level, but it only strengthens the need for
technological advances to reduce repetitive work. Repetitive work may lead to less active approach by EHS personnel
due to routine work & may lead to human error.
Repetitive Work & Data Collection - Middle management EHS Professionals
Middle management - Data collection

Data collection may be a tedious job, but due to the whole end to end process being completely manual, its not just
data collection that consumes time for the EHS personnel, according to the participants, because of an absence of an
automated system, more than 31% professionals from the total middle management employees spent more than 50%
or more time just for data logging. It's primitive that only 18% respondents had organizations that use automated
digital tools and IOT to log data.
Middle management Data collection Middle management - Repetitive Work
more than 70%

Automate/IOT
7.4%
tools
10-25% 0-20%
14.7%
30.33% 25.6%
40-70%
24%
50% & more

31.15%
25-50%
23.7%
20-40%
43%
Repetitive Tasks - Conclusion
Repetitive tasks for entry level team in EHS is much higher compared to middle
management with maximum respondents pointing out that they have repetitive tasks in
range of 40 -70 percent or at least more than 20 to 40%. The middle management on
other hand felt they had 20 - 40% task repetitive with 43% people agreeing with that,
while 24% said their repetitive tasks went up to 70%.
Due to this repetitive nature of work, 60% EHS professionals from middle management
say that they feel there is nothing much left to learn after spending 5 years in the EHS
field while 23% felt that number to be near to 10 years.

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Career Growth
Appraisals & job satisfaction

Data shows that the respondents were more satisfied with their jobs when their appraisals were decent. The job
satisfaction ratings of up to 4 did not have any major appraisals, as soon as we go above 5 & 6 ratings, we see
comparatively higher appraisal rates with figures reaching 12% & more as we move towards the higher rating scale.
Job satisfaction rating V/S Appraisal

Scale of 10
100%
75%
50%
25%
0%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
12-18% 1-5% 5 -8% 8-12% more than 18%
Job satisfaction ratings tend to become better as we move towards the right with increase in appraisal
The missing bars are negligible ratings
Appraisal - Middle management

The salary hike for middle management in the last 3 years saw a similar trends as to how entry level employees are
being paid. There are stark differences for hike when it comes to different organizations. Researching more on it, we
find that such high appraisals are often found in professionals working in pharma, manufacturing, chemical &
electrical industries. These industries have a much more serious approach towards EHS and therefore reward their
employees based on their performance. The maximum professionals (42%) belonged to the 5-10% appraisal range,
while 24% were on the higher side with more than 15% hike and 18% on the lower side with less than 5% hike.
Appraisal - Middle management
>15%
24.2%
5-10%
41.7%
0-5%
18.3%
10-15%
15.8%

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Career Growth
Appraisal - Entry Level

While the appraisals for the entry level in the last 2 years have differed among each organization and the data gives
us 3 distinct groups where the majority of respondents voted. The 8-12% bracket remained ahead with 30.6%
people coming under this umbrella. But almost at the same place, 29.3% professionals were a part of the group
getting 1-5% appraisal in 2 years. This shows the major differences in different organizations. 5-8% bracket also
has more than 25% respondents which can be considered as acceptable. There is a brighter side to this as well,
with 10.6% getting hikes in range of 12-18% in 2 years and 4% professionals got more than 18%
Appraisal - Entry Level
12-18%
10.7%
1-5%
29.3%
8-12%
30.7%
5 -8%
25.3%
Average appraisals for EHS Professional is below par compared to all the other industries
such as software, finance, marketing, etc. EHS fraternity as a whole needs to resolve this as
early as possible . EHS has never been a sought after career nor has been the primary
choice of students. Most of the EHS professionals are underpaid compared to other
professions, making EHS unattractive for fresh candidates.
Views for their future generation in choosing EHS as career path
90% professionals from entry level feel that EHS is now becoming more important than ever
with good growth opportunities and better working conditions and would love to see their
future generation into EHS field, but how the next generation will cope up with the lesser
growth?
Over 60% middle management professionals gave a rating of above 8 out of 10 to show their
willingness towards their future generations joining EHS field, while 32% showed medium
willingness by giving 5 - 7 ratings for the same.

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Positive Safety Culture in Industries
Advantages
Improved Trust among employees
Lesser accidents
Better & Meaningful Communication
Shared Responsibility
60%
EHS professionals were more confident in terms of their
aspirations and career growth when working in organizations
that was always receptive towards their ideas
56%
EHS professionals measured Safety Culture with
respect to the support show by management in
matters of Safety & Health

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Safety Culture
Safety Culture in recent times

Safety in workplace was first followed as a part of legal compliances with minimum effort, focusing more on
production and profits. In the recent years, since the companies have started focusing on human resource as a valuable
part of the overall functioning, companies have started integrating safety within the culture. While safety culture is a
very vague term, we tried to answer how do professionals working in the organization measure the safety culture and
how are their perceptions linked with different duties that management performs.
Safety Culture Measurement

Professionals tend to measure their organizations safety culture on the kind of support they receive from their
management with 56% respondents taking management support as the biggest parameter of safety culture in the
organization. Many of the respondents (23%) related their safety culture directly with the number of
accidents/incidents or trainings happening in their organization. EHS representation in board was the second lowest
with 15% which makes us think how much does the EHS representation in the boardroom actually mean to the
professionals working in the EHS departments and the budget received was the lowest in the list with only 6%
respondents relating safety culture with EHS budget.
Measuring safety culture
EHS Budget
6.09%
Accidents &
Trainings
23.48%
Support for initiative

55.65%
Board representation
14.78%
Support for initiative from management for day to day safety related activities, initiatives for
new programs and campaigns, support in terms of approvals, man power, participation, etc.
had a much deeper impact than giving a position in boardroom or giving higher budget for
EHS.

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Safety Culture
Man hours spent for safety related activities by Non EHS employees
Manhours spent on safety related activities for non EHS personnel:

EHS Department routinely sets up training for safety related activities which have to be attended by every one. But
the perception of entry level employees and senior management differs when it comes to the amount of non-EHS
professional spend on safety related activities. Whereas the senior management has a optimistic perception with more
than 70% professionals responding that the non EHS staff spends more than 50 man hours for safety related activities,
the same perception was different for entry level EHS personnel. Almost half of entry level employees say that the
amount of time a non EHS person spends for safety related activities is less than 50 hours a year. This difference of
opinion may be a result of unawareness of entry level employees, but most likely can be a result of difference between
planned activities by senior management and actual activities that happened in real life scenario.
None of these
10.3% More than 100hrs/yr
17.1%
<50hrs/yr
28.4%
>100 hrs/yr Less than 50hrs/yr

27.6% 47.4%
100-50hrs/yr
35.5%
50-100 hrs/yr
33.6%
Non EHS workers manhours for Safety - Non EHS workers manhours for Safety -
Senior Management Perception Entry level Perception
The perception of senior management on the amount of hours all non EHS personnel spend
on safety is higher than what the entry level thinks are the number of hours spent by non
EHS personnel a year on safety activities. This may be the difference between the planned
trainings and the trainings actually not happening due to multiple reasons such as
cancellation, people not attending , production targets & culture.

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Safety Culture
Impact of Organization Culture on Employees

Cultural impacts have far more reaching consequences. It impacts the way a person working in the organization thinks
about himself/herself. The analysis between the perception that employees will reach a much higher position in their
career and how their organization treats them gives us a better picture.
How organizations can build confidence among their employees:

Organizations that are more receptive of their employee's ideas inspire more confidence where the employees feel they
can advance their career at a much higher pace. Out of the 46% respondents who answered that their organizations
were very receptive of their ideas, 65% professionals felt they would reach high positions but when we compare the
same with professionals who answered that their ideas were only heard few times, the number of professionals who
believe they will reach at higher positions decreases to 35%.
Idea heard by organization and

Confidence among employees
100
75
50
25
0
Always Often Rarely Sometimes
Low Not possible Very High Very Low
Organizations who support ideas from their employees, implement them give boosts to the
employees and incentivize them to think beyond the box, making them more confident about
their job and accelerate their career growth.

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Safety Culture
Gender Bias: Gender Distribution

Women
EHS has traditionally been a very male dominated industry
3%
with almost all positions held by them. Even today,
comparing the data, it is unfortunately true. Out of the total
respondents, just a little over 3% were women, rest
whooping 97% participants were men. 60% of these women
employees were from the corporate, with less than 0.03%
women out of the total respondents occupying senior level
positions and 1.2% of total respondents in middle
management roles.
While the organizations are actively making efforts to add Men

97%
gender diversity in their organizations, EHS is still a long way
behind. Women admissions have increased in Engineering &
safety courses which point out to the changes in the coming
times with the ratio for gender diversity improving soon.
Updating SOPs:
Almost a quarter of the respondents participating in 1EHS % of SOP updated in a year
from upper management said that their SOPs were almost

updated completely every year, although majority of the 75-100% 0-25%
organization (36%) updated around 25-50% of their SOPs 23.7% 25.4%
every year.
Updating SOPs constantly ensures that the mistakes made
are not repeated again & lessons are learnt from it by making
sure to close those loopholes when updating the SOPs. In
general, other than the 25% professionals who said their
50-75%
organization updated less than 25% of their SOPs yearly, the 14.9%
rest seem to ensure that safety is not just taken as a
compliance, but as a part of the culture.
25-50 %
36%
Increasing amount of data, CAPA, regulations and

organization's own desire to become better than what they
are today has resulted in continuous updating of SOPs and
making sure nothing is left to chance.

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EHS Budget
EHS Budgets and Distribution

The amount of financial resources allocated to EHS say a lot about how seriously an organization takes the well being
of its employees.
Budget approval - How many times is the Budget Approvals:

requested amount approved The senior management usually gets the task of getting the
75% EHS budget approved for the whole year and then manage it
among environment, safety, health. It gives a huge boost
when the budget asked is approved by the management
50% without any deductions. Out of the total respondents, 60%

mentioned that their budget request always got approved
while 225 said that budget approval for the requested
amount happened only half the time, and 16 -17% had even
25% lesser approval rate. Seeing the majority of managements
approving budget for EHS gives a good sense of feeling about
the direction the Indian industries are heading and the
seriousness with which they are taking the EHS aspects of
0%
0.25 0.5 <25% Always the organization.
More than 50% of the time, request for EHS budget was approved which shows the
dedication of most of the leading organizations.
Spending:
EHS spending is growing as organizations start understanding the importance of safety, incorporating EHS not just for
compliance purposes, but also incorporating it in board rooms, decision making process and making it a part of annual
planning. Just from a sample size of 92 respondents from the senior management, a combined amount of roughly 2637
cr has been spent in a year by taking approximate revenues and averaging out the percentage terms into absolute
terms.
This value comes by using the publicly available data on the revenues of the organizations, and the respondents
answers on the percentage of revenue allotted to EHS budget. All values obtained are approximate.
Considering a sample data of less than 100 companies result in spending worth 2600+ Crores
INR, India has literally thousands of companies, all of them getting slowly aware about the
importance of EHS and are allocating more and more budget every year for it making it grow
on a very rapid rate.

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EHS Budget
EHS Budgets for Safety
EHS Budget for safety - Middle management perception EHS budget for safety - Senior management perception
We see 2 distinct groups of organizations when it comes The senior management of many organizations had a
to safety spending. The majority participants (41%) were perception that their organization spent more on safety
from organizations that spent more than 40% of the EHS when it came to the overall EHS budget. With 21.9%
budget on safety while another approx. 40% spent less responding they spent up to 40% and 39% professionals
than 30% of their budget on safety aspects of the EHS responding they spent beyond 40%, we can assume that
budget. the EHS budget of many organizations stay tilted
towards the safety aspect of EHS.
% of EHS budget spent on Safety - Middle % of EHS budget spent on Safety - Senior
Management perception management perception
25-30%
26.4%
25-30% >40%
more than 40%"
39.8% 39.6%
41.5%
31-35%
12.1%
36-40% 31-35% 36-40%

9.3% 9.3% 22%
While the perception of middle and upper level employees matched at the higher end of the spending spectrum, there
were difference of opinion when it came to the lower end of the spectrum with almost 40% of middle management
responded that their organization spent less than 30% of EHS budget on safety while only 26% senior management of
various organizations accepted their spending below 30% for safety. Most of the upper management quoted towards
the higher end of the range when it came to safety budget as a part of EHS budget.
Organizations tend to spend more on safety aspect when it comes to EHS due to its
immediate nature of results and impact for improving conditions compared to health and
environment which are generally long term projects.

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EHS Budget
EHS Budget for Health
EHS budget on Health:

Maximum respondents (60%) from the upper management had a perception that their organization spent 25-30% of
the overall EHS budget on direct health of the their employees. While there were respondents who thought their
organizations spent more of their EHS budget on health parameter, they were a minority and pretty much equally
distributed among the 31% to more than 40% spending range.
% of EHS budget spent on Health
>40%
12.5%
36-40%
15.2%
25-30%
58.9%
31-35%
13.4%
Spending on Health has increase very much due to the ongoing pandemic. Previous years
data shows a spending of mere 10 -20% on health, while this figure has increased to 25-30%
with many organizations nearing 40% of their annual EHS budget spending on health.
Parameters for Health & Safety

When asked about the priority of critical parameters for Health & safety, majority of respondents (42%) gave chemical
exposure as a top priority while selecting machine guarding (24%), ergonomics (19%) & falling object (15%) in the order
of priority
Parameters critical when considering

Health & safety
Machine Guarding
24.2%
Chemical Exposure
42.4%
Falling object
14.6%
Ergonomics
18.7%

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Road Safety
Assessment
Road safety is another growing concern for organizations, especially when they have a lot of road travel included due
to distance involved between factories & residential places. A lot of these organizations providing transportation have
their own road safety officers (42.8%) who ensure that the correct guidelines are being followed. With digital systems
in place, (19%) organizations are able to monitor and track their vehicle movements inside & outside their premises. A
good chunk of organizations also rely on penalty structure & road safety rules (38.1%). Relying on penalty structure
ensures the compliance of the workers but works only as long as there is strict enforcement of penalties.
Road safety Assessment in Organizations
Digital system in place for assessment

and tracking,
19.05%
Warning and Penalty structure in place
according to type of rules broken,
38.10%
Road Safety officer in place to assess

and track the incidents,
42.86%
Road safety for Non Factory Workers Road safety for Non Factory Workers
While the organizations are taking an interest for
50% Not yet
Yes, and measuring road safety, it is still in the initial stages and not
KPIs are all factory workers are covered. There are a lot of non
40% Yes,
defined
factory staff working on the field who are barely covered.
however
30% there is On asking about the same, respondents from different
We are
no KPI organization responded that only 33.33% organizations
developing
20% defined
one had their non factory workers covered in road safety while
47.6% did not have any such ability, 4.7% were developing
10%
their strategy for the same & 14.29% measured it but had
0%
no KPI's defined for the same.

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Road Safety
Safety Strategy focused on road safety % of safety strategy focused on road safety
43% respondents from senior management said their
More than
safety strategy consisted of more than 15% when it came 50%
15%
to road safety with 19% responding it was between 10-
40%
15% and another 19% responding it was around 5-10% of
their overall safety strategy. Remaining had less than 5%
30%
focus on road safety or none at all. In the coming years,
10-15% 5-10% Less
this numbers will change significantly as more and more 20% than
organizations are focusing on their employee's safety on 5%
None
the roads. 10%
0%
Organizations are focusing more on road safety with more than 5-15% of their safety
strategy revolving around road safety. With 40% organizations having dedicated road safety
officers who take care of all the incident investigations, SOP update, rules & implementation
of penalty based systems, etc. Being relatively new in adaption by organizations, there are no
strict KPIs for majority of the organizations when it comes to road safety but more and more
organizations are planning to implement it.

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Digital Transformation Journey
Industry 2.0
Started with the advent of the concept of mass production. Brought
around changes using continuous production lines & electricity.
Industry 3.0
Advent of Computers and preprogrammed machines performing pre
selected functions. Base of the modern day industries & groundwork
for implementation of Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0
Smart decisions using AI & machine learning. Interconnectivity
through IOT based tools, digital networks through cloud computing.
"Majority of Indian SMEs & industries are in varying stages of

industry 2.0 and 3.0. Indian Industries need to adapt, accept new
technologies and improve their productivity to compete with the
competiton from around the globe."
70%
organizations lack specialized software for daily operations and are
stuck with generally used tools like emails, excels, etc which are very
basic in nature.
<5% Use of AI based tools in the industry in current time

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Digital Transformation
Digital transformation - A new chapter in Indian Industries

Out of the total respondents from senior management, only 75% of their organizations had a digitalization strategy
in hand.
Talking about maturity of their digital strategy, 36.7% professionals felt their strategy for digital transformation is
mature enough. 43% of respondents maintained a stand that their strategy was mature, but there is a lot of scope
for improvement and rated it medium. 19.5% respondents rated their own digital strategy was not mature with a poor
rating of below 4 out of 10.
Out of those who had digital strategy, when asked to give rating to their own digital process, only 28.7% felt
confident to give their own digital process a rating of above 8 out of 10. Rest majority of the respondents felt their
digital process could be rated as medium rated, between 5-7 out of 10 and 26% rated their processes as poor, giving
less than 4 ratings.
Total Respondents having Digital strategy in
place
75%
Maturity rating of their own Digital strategy Rating of current Digital Processes
by Upper management
Poor (0 - 4)
19.5% Poor (1-4)
Good (8-11)
26.1%
28.7%
Good (8 - 11)
36.8%
Medium (5 - 7)
Medium (5-7)
43.7%
45.2%
There appears to be a lack of confidence among the EHS professionals over their own digital
strategies and processes. Out of the total respondents, only 30-35% have enough confidence
on their digital plans and implementations to give a rating above 8 out of 11. 20-25% have
out rightly accepted that their digital transformation journey lacks the correct direction or
pace.

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Views by entry level professionals on Digital tools currently implemented in organizations:

While talking about the digital process currently implemented in the organization, most of the organizations have just
started implementing basic tools and excels, slowly leaving the pen and paper method and adopting digital methods.
When we say adopting digital methods, these are just the basic ones. Even the entry level workers, who, having
recently joined the organizations as freshers, have a perception that the tools available to them currently are very
basic and they need more IOT & AI based tools.
Perception of digital tools by entry level
It should be IOT level

10.8%
Very basic
37.8%
Some what
32.4%
Need more in-depth software

18.9%
There appears to be a strong need of improvements in the implemented tools currently as

per the entry level professionals who are the major users of such tools. With most of their
tools being just basic forms & excels, there is a demand for IOT based and in depth software.
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning, the coming few years is going to bring a lot of new
developments in the field of EHS.
Importance of AI/ML in digitalization
The perception of the respondents when it comes to AI/ML is
7.34
very much in line with the hype we see in the market for EHS
tools & software with advanced analytic and decision making
abilities. On a scale of 1 - 10, the average rating for AI/ML
being an important part of digitalisation process was 7.34

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Current Applications of Technology

When talking about the digital technologies implemented in their organizations, almost 50% of the senior
management said they have implemented and are using Web based MIS systems, while 16.67% did not use any such
advanced software at all. AI, IOT - human connected tools were in minority. But respondents also mentioned that
their plans for the next 5 years included AI and IOT in a huge part, with 39% organizations implementing AI to make
decisions and 34% organization to implement IOT 4.0 for automated data collections and management.
Use of technology currently
Artificial intelligence-based tools
IOT & Industry 4.0 based tools
None of these
Penalized, incentivized
Planning to create any AI nodes to incorporate in future
Process and people interlinked software
Web based centralized MIS
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Use of technology in the next 5 years
Decision making and analytics through Artificial Intelligence
Industry 4.0
Others
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
The companies are very much in line with their expectations of using Artificial intelligence
and Industry 4.0 tools, but their current conditions makes it highly unlikely that many
companies will reach that stage in the next 5 years considering the trend of growth in
digitalization. Digital transformation cannot be achieved in a day, it's a long process, with
significant CAPEX. It can be achieved slowly over a period of time while balancing the
financial and integration aspects.

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Safety
Reliability as a function of EHS KPI

Safety is generally rated higher when compared to Environment & Health in EHS with most organizations allocating
higher budgets to safety.
Reliability:
Talking about the Reliability as a function of EHS KPI, maximum respondents (68%) said that their organization did not
consider it as a function of EHS KPI, that they haven't planned it or still planning and need more knowledge. 32%
organizations of the participants saw reliability as a function of EHS KPI which shows the organizations have started
thinking about the seriousness with which they are treating their EHS work above and beyond the legal compliances
but still have a substantial way ahead with market leaders taking the lead in having EHS as a major part of the
organization framework
Reliability as a function of EHS KPI
Not yet Reliability includes the asset

We need more knowledge around it
23.3%
27.4% functionality, infrastructure
reliability and essential equipment
required for mitigating risks at
We are planning
17.8% workplace. Only 32% organizations
We cover reliability as KPI consider reliability as a function of
31.5%
EHS KPI.
Behavior Based Safety

Maximum respondents (48%) believed that Behavior based safety was implemented in their organization due to very
low involvement of workers when it came to safety. The organizations used trainings, reward systems to increase the
involvement of workers and make safety as a part of the overall culture. 33% mentioned it was implemented due to
various non repetitive issues where safety could be improved only if it comes from the workers themselves. 16% also
mentioned about increasing accident rate which led to the implementation of BBS to better educate the workers about
safety at workplaces. The perception of 3% respondents was that it had nothing to do with the above mentioned
points and their organization just implemented it because others were doing it.
Why was Behavior Based Safety implemented?
Increased accident rate
It is a talk of town
Lower involvement of workers
Non repetitive issues
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

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Safety
Rating of existing systems

LOTO - Lock out tag out 75
LOTO systems are generally designed to be very robust
and failure free, but due to human error, accidents have
happened in the past. When we asked about the ratings 50
that the respondents would like to give to their established
LOTO procedures, 66.2% gave a rating above 8 out of the
total 10, 27% gave between 4-7 and only 6.5% 25
respondents thought their organization had much more
scope to improve when it came to LOTO
0
Poor Medium Good
Ratings for LOTO in their organization
CAPA - Corrective and Preventive actions

CAPA is done to improve & mitigate chances of incidents or shut downs happening by identifying the problems and
taking corrective or preventive actions before the fault becomes serious. High level of accuracy results in a better
CAPA management. On asking the respondents about the accuracy of their CAPA management systems, we found that
less than 50% respondents could say that their CAPA findings are matching with the actual results and on paper
without any kind of repetition observed. Rest of the respondents had experienced issues related to repetition, non
alignment of results or both.
CAPA on paper and actual results are aligned. No repetition of issues observed.
CAPA on paper and actual results may be aligned. Repetition of issues observed.
CAPA on paper and actual results may not be aligned. No repetition of issues observed.
CAPA on paper and actual results may not be aligned. Repetition of issues observed.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Views of respondents on CAPA systems in their

organizations
While organizations focus a lot on systems like LOTO, which can have serious consequences
if not followed, the same cannot be said for processes that help in improving the efficiency
and mitigating risks. It shows the mentality of the organizations about reactive safety &
preventive safety, meaning they focus only on high risk, immediate factors rather than have a
long term plan.

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Process Safety Management
Process safety management program
On asking the senior management EHS leaders about having a process safety management program active in the
organization, only 60% professionals responded yes. The rest of the organizations did not have any such program or
were still in the planning stage.
PSM Program
Managing Process safety

From managing everything on paper, the companies are slowing moving towards using digital tools. Although this
transition is coming, its still slow and not even remotely near the standards set by western countries. The
implementation of various different tools were as follows when the upper management respondents were asked which
tools they used to manage PSI.
PSI management
A custom software but not a digital twin
On a digital twin interface software
On commonly used digital medium like PDF, excel etc. on a common server
We keep relevant information with defined teams
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
While majority of the respondents, 41% were using commonly used digital mediums such as excel, mails, pdfs, etc. a
lot of professionals (29%) said they did not keep information on a common server and kept it within defined teams
only. It was interesting to know that a lot of companies have now started using more sophisticated methods of
collecting and storing data with 12% using custom software and 18% using digital twin interface software.
Process safety has in general been given higher importance due to the catastrophic
consequences of PSM failure. Process safety can be improved on a large scale via usage of
data analytics and data collection in real time. Use of digital mediums are rapidly increasing
with more custom built software & real time data with digital twin interface. While there are
still organizations not utilizing the full potential of data, those numbers are bound to
decrease

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When asked if they could rate their PSI management system for updating and storing data without multiple versions,
only 45% of the respondents gave a Good rating of above 8 out of 10. Rest 45% gave ratings between 5 - 7 and 10%
rated poor when it came to data management. It was interesting that most of the professionals using digital twins &
custom software gave higher ratings.
PSI management rating - Data storage

without multiple versions of same data
Low
Medium
Good
0 10 20 30 40 50
The ratings though on a better side of expectation prove that organizations using custom
software and digital twin interface were more likely to rate their PSI management on the
higher side compared to organizations who did not use centralized data management tools &
digital mediums for storage.
Management of change:
When asked about how their organizations did MOC, the senior management respondents were divided into three
groups with the first using automated software (36%), second group using conventional means on emails (46.38%). the
third group (17.39%) opted for none of the automated or emails, using their own methods for MOC.
Means of Management of change
None of these
17.4%
Automated by a software
36.2%
It is done by conventional means on emails

46.4%

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MOC awareness:
The entry level respondents were asked about how they would rate themselves with respect to knowledge of
Management of change on the scale of 10. Maximum respondents (67.53%) rated between 8 - 10, giving a good rating
to themselves. 26% said they felt adequately knowledgeable but not enough to rate above 8 and gave themselves
ratings between 5 - 7. Only 6% respondents thought they had poor knowledge about MOC and had a lot to learn
before giving themselves decent ratings.
MOC rating by entry level respondents
Poor
Medium
Good
0 25 50 75
It is nice to see organizations training their entry level EHS professionals about management
of changes. Though the process may be followed by all levels in the organization, chances of
mistakes, error in judgement tend to happen on ground where most of work is done by entry
level employees. Though 32% entry level professionals rated their knowledge about MOC as
less, its a surprise that 67.5% rated their knowledge on a very high end of the ratings.

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Environment, Sustainability & ESG
Key benefits
Better Business in terms of more

customers, investors, public relations
Better valuation
Government support & subsidies
Better preparedness for future changes in

regulations
Better Adaptability to counter

disruptions
56% organizations are in line with Paris Agreement
50% organizations record GHG emissions
~35% organizations having EHS division don't follow

any of the major reporting standards

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Environment & Sustainability
Need for Changing the Mindset towards a sustainable future

Seriousness on sustainable mindset
While only half (51%) EHS professionals thought their organization was serious or even partially serious about
sustainability with only 11% taking a positively strong stance on their organizations sustainable practices while 33%
preferred to remain neutral and 16% accepted that their organization was not into sustainability with much effort.
These figures reveal the extent of the organizations contribution towards sustainability. To achieve a balance between
profits and sustainability, organizations as whole will have to think beyond productions & profit,- for future
generations
Seriousness on sustainable Mindset
Most Serious
Neutral
Not serious
Partially serious
Serious
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
In today's times, sustainability is not only required for the purpose of legal requirements.
Sustainability has become a core part of Corporate social governance as well as for public
relations. Organizations not following sustainable means for productions are looked down
upon and slowly get affected on their business revenues as people in general are more aware
than before, and believe that they can do their bit in saving the environment by supporting
organizations who themselves are using sustainable means of production.
Though organizations have started following reporting standards, their general mindset
towards sustainability remains below par compared to organizations from the western
countries. Using sustainable means for productions is not cheap, but have long term benefits.
Sadly, less than 52% EHS professionals believe that their organizations is not taking
sustainability very seriously.

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Reporting Mechanisms
Reporting Standards followed
While 91% respondents said that they have a reporting mechanism in place, 83% out of the given 91% organization
had an internal reporting mechanism for sustainability. Among those 83%, GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) appeared
to be the most prominent with over 31.42% organizations using it. Surprisingly, 34% of the organizations reporting
internally did not follow any of the major reporting standards such as GRI, CDP, IIRC or SASB, giving a different
approach towards reporting or just logging it for compliance purposes.
We also asked professionals which standard they found more relevant and practical when it came to Indian scenario. A
whopping 44% selected GRI as the best practical reporting mechanism IIRC(Incident Investigation & Reporting
Committee being the second most popular with 18% votes.
Reporting Standards followed by different Organizations in India

CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
8.4%
None of these
34.5% GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)
31.4%
IIRC (Incident Investigation and Review Committee)

19.9%
Views on Practicality of standards in India by Upper management
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)

GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)
IIRC (Incident Investigation and Review Committee)
None of these
SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
GRI (Global reporting index) appeared to be the most popular for organizations with over
31.4% organizations using it, while 44% EHS professionals believe that GRI is more suitable in
Indian scenario.

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Efforts in improving the society

Plastic Waste Management
48% respondents believed their organization was working very well in plastic waste management and gave above 8
ratings out of 11 to their organizations efforts. 44% respondents thought their organizations were giving adequate
efforts but things could be improved much more and gave them ratings between 5 to 7 out to 11. Only 8 %
professionals felt their organization was poor in terms of plastic waste management & needed a lot of work to
improve.
Plastic Waste management rating by entry level
Poor (1 - 4)
8%
Good (8 to 11)
48%
Medium (5 to 7)
44%
Water Management
With all majority of the companies situated out side of water scarce zone, there is a perception that companies don’t
care about their surrounding air and water resources. When asked to the respondents about the same, it came as a
surprise to see the data with 68% participating EHS personnel giving a good rating between 8 to 11 out of 11 to their
organizations for their water management processes, while 29% gave a rating of 4-7 and only 3% felt the efforts their
organization was putting in was wholly inadequate. This shows the seriousness of the organizations towards water
management and compliance to state and national laws being followed strictly.
Water management rating by entry level
Poor (1 - 4)
3%
Medium (5 to 7)
29%
Good (8 to 11)
68%
Organizations have started working on plastic wastage & water management but according to
the entry level staff who are on the ground most of the day, the efforts towards water
management are rated much higher as compared to the efforts by the organizations on plastic
waste management.

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GHG Emissions - Measurement & Focus
GHG Emissions
For GHG measurements, out of the total middle management respondents, 59% did not have sensors in place and the
whole recording took place manually. While the 41% respondents had sensors, only 26% had the technology to go
with the sensors in place, rest 15% are still depended on manual logging.
GHG measurement
We don't have sensors and advance technology in place
We have sensors and advanced technology in place
We have sensors but not much of advance technology in place
We plan to do it in future
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
GHG Focus
SOx (Sulphur Oxide)
17.5%
ODX
12.3%
CO2 (Carbon dioxide)

61.4%
NOx (Nitrogen Oxide)
8.8%
GHG Emissions Focus

Organizations of the 50% Professionals from the middle management who were actively recording GHG emissions,
said that their prime focus was on CO2 (61.4%) with the others being secondary concerns according to the type of the
industry.
There are too many types of emissions the companies need to focus depending on their
production and material handling, but there is significant seriousness only for carbon dioxide
emissions which are in focus these days due to Global warming and media outrage. This is
again a part of reactive approach and not proactive approach to mitigate risks before they
happen. Only 50% organizations recorded GHG emissions out of the total respondents.

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ESG Goals
ESG goals & Paris agreement

Goals
56% of the respondents mentioned that their organization's ESG goals were aligned with the Paris agreement.
majority of the organizations, 70%, have set their goals for 2030 and they remain unaffected by the current pandemic.
while 2.7% organization had set goals for 2030, but due to the pandemic they are planning to postpone their
deadlines. 26.1% organizations have not set their goals for ESG but out of them, 15.6% organizations are planning to
set goals soon, while the rest have no immediate plan to do so.
ESG Goals as per the respondents from the upper management
No plans for long term goals
No we have not set any goals, planning to set
No we have set goals, might have to postpone the deadline
Yes we have set goals, we will achieve by 2030
0% 25% 50% 75%
Focus in next 10 years

30 to 35% organizations are focusing on the target of having at least 10 - 20% reduction in Energy consumption &
GHG emission. As evident by the chart, most of the organization follow a similar pattern for both Energy reduction as
well as GHG emissions, with a slight more focus on energy reduction in the 10 - 20% goal set bracket.
Reduction in 10 years per 1000 unit production
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
<10%, >30% 10%-20%, 21%-30%, others
Energy consumption reduction GHG reduction
Organizations are focusing on both, energy consumption reduction and GHG reduction with
both targets going hand in hand for almost all the organizations except few who are more
focused on reducing energy consumption compared to GHG emissions. This may be due to
multiple organizations going with green building designs, power efficient lighting &
application of renewable energy to reduce their net energy consumption from conventional
fuels.
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भारत (INDIA)

As a consulting & technology company, we

About the data

We reached out to more than 3000 EHS professionals in India ,

Collected the insights spanning over 11,000 data points

Participants across 3 levels of EHS hierarchy - Senior, Middle &

3200 Man hours spent for collection & analyzing data*

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What a year it has been, when we started our 1EHS program

Sparrow Risk Management

The coming 2 to 3 years, for us, shall be extremely critical

of Failures & Rejections, in innovation – we cannot remain non-responsive! We believe that

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This is one of the great initiative taken by Sparrow

This is a great initiative in engaging a thought building Process on EHS

Pernod Ricard co-learn and implement

an excellent research and compilation of data which is an eye-opener growth"

on many aspects. I am delighted to be part of this journey and interact

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“Team Sparrow has my heartfelt gratitude for their

First of all Kudos to Team Sparrow for realizing the dream

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Amala Varsheni Manasa Bhukya

Aishwarya Gupta Nehal Patni

Anupama Anil Kumar Piyush Vasava

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Role of EHS Professionals .......................................17

Career Growth. .........................................................19

Safety Culture .........................................................22

Road Safety ..............................................................29

Digital Transformation ............................................32

Process Safety Management ...................................37

Environment & Sustainability..................................41

ESG goals ..................................................................45

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More demands for Experienced EHS professionals

RLI >> MTech

18% Use of automated digital

50% Organizations record GHG emissions

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Perception among EHS professionals towards increase in Job opportunities

Entry Level - Perception for increase in job opportunities

Middle Management - Perception for increase in job opportunities

Factory Corporate Overall

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New job openings in the organization

Senior Management's take:

We get a 12% increase in the headcount

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Team Size vs Planned increase

0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000

Current number Planned number of

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NEBOSH shall be too generic to be valued as a world-

1,45,000 NEBOSH Certified professionals on LinkedIn

63,000 IRCA Certified professionals on LinkedIn

45,000 OSHAS Certified professionals on LinkedIn

17,000 IEMA Certified professionals on LinkedIn

6,900 RLI Certified professionals on LinkedIn

"EHS Leaders from industry give higher preference to full time

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Educational Requirement for EHS professionals

20 Education impact on leadership role Education & Leadership roles:

of Failures & Rejections, in innovation – we cannot remain non-responsive! We believe that