THARPARKAR: Engro Powergen Thar (EPTL) has achieved a significant safety milestone, surpassing 5 million safe man-hours. This accomplishment underscores the company’s unwavering commitment to safety, as announced by ETPL on Friday.
“This achievement underscores our unwavering dedication to fostering a safe and secure work environment with absence of any lost workday injuries,” reads an official statement.
“Safe man-hours” is a concept frequently employed in industrial and construction contexts to quantify work completed without any time lost due to accidents, injuries, or other safety-related incidents.
Engineer Aziz Ahmad, an electrical engineer specializing in electricity projects, explained that man-hours represent the total hours worked by employees or contractors without any recordable incidents. Mr. Aziz told Gwadar Pro that safe man-hours serve as a crucial metric for evaluating workplace safety performance, indicating the effectiveness of safety practices and the establishment of a safe working environment.
EPTL was formed in 2014 to set up a 2x330MW power project in Thar Block II, Sindh, Pakistan. The company is a joint venture between Engro Powergen Ltd (EPL), China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), Habib Bank Ltd, and Liberty Mills Limited. The project successfully achieved commercial operations on July 10, 2019.
EPTL’s power project is a pioneering project in generating electricity using indigenous lignite coal from the Tharparkar district. –Agencies
