Safety Awareness!!! Commercial establishments???

We talk about Safety in industries!! but many of us may not have wondered the same safety awareness in some of the premises occupied by commercial establishments like banks,shopping complex etc.
Visit any commercial establishments to see for yourself.We can at the minimum observe the fire extinguishers been blocked by goods and materials.Any question from you to the owner of the shop will be answered in one similar tone ..."Nothing will Happen".."To us Bussiness is more important than giving importance to such things...!
Just look at the picture...I took this picture(with most difficulty) at one of the nationalized Banks(Name of the bank is not important..as only issue is of prime concern).The bank officials had cooly put a calender ...nicely hooked to fire extinguisher.When asked came a usual reply "Nothing will happen"
The Government need to do a lot for making them understand that in case of a real emergency the staff and customers will be charred to death...
God knows whether these commercial establishments conduct fire evacuation drills???

About E-waste-Current condition

The new E-waste Guidelines released and also the new draft of E-waste Management rules(that MAIT is developing) have done one good thing.ie to give a definition to E-waste.Now we can,to a greater extent define E-waste as "Wastes whole or in part,comprising of or derived from used electrical and electronic equipments that are not fit for its original use and are destined to for refurbishment,recycling or disposal and it shall include but not confined to the wastes listed in the schedule annexed to these rules"These may take some more time to come into action/implementation,but I think finally we are moving in right direction.E-waste has always been a hot topic.and many of the companies are targeted for the way they manage the e-waste.The pioneer in this has been the green peace.We all know the series of protests organised by them against the mis-management of E-waste.You can expect to see lot more posts by me on E-waste,but I wanted this post to be a starter.In India Ministry of Environment and forests has been leading the way legislations have been developed.Atlast now we are seeing some lights.The main issue was not of just legislations,it was about infrastructures to support this legislation.Starting Yr 2005 there were very few recyclers,who had the knowlegde of E waste recycling.In those days the E-waste was categorised as Schedule 31.1 in Hazardous waste Rules 2003.As the scenario and awareness changed,more and more recyclers started coming into India.I thought in this post Let me give you names and contacts of few recyclers,with whom I have talked to.1.E-Parisaraa in Bangalore2.Tes-Amm in Chennai3.Trishyiraya Recyclers( Now SIMS) in Chennai4.TIC Group in NoidaYou can expect from me more posts on E-wastes in future.

Check this website on Health

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