Workshop on Work Site Road Safety.
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A workshop on "Work Site Road Safety" was organised by PMU on 10/04/2010 at 9.30 AM in the Conference hall of O/o the EIC(Civil) Nirman Soudha,Orissa,Bhubaneswar.The objective of the workshop was to sensitize and orient the Supervision consultants, Contractors, Package Managers, NGO & PMU Staff on implementation of work site safety measures in the year-1 Road corridors of OSRP. Er. Nalini Kanta Pradhan,Chief Engineer,World Bank Projects inaugurated the workshop,followed by a Welcome address by Mr. M.R Mishra, Executive Engineer, PMU. The World Bank team led by Mr. Rajesh Rohtagi, all staffs of PMU, Package Managers from different (R&B) Divisions, Contractors,Consultant & NGOs were present at the workshop. Mrs. Neha Vyas,Environmental Specialist,World Bank acted as the key resource person in the workshop and resensitised the functionaries particularly of the Contractors and Supervision consultant regarding construction work site safety.The legal and contractual obligations of Consultant(SMEC),Contractors and PMU towards enforcement of safety measures were explained by Er. B.C.Tripathy ,Executive Engineer, PMU. Mr. S.K.Panigrahi from Transport Department ,Govt. of Orissa gave a detailed presentation on the different factors influencing road safety and provisions for geometric design for safety.
