Vedanta Aluminium Organizes Industry Workshop on Safety and Quality in Jharsuguda
13th May 2026
- 115+ participants shared best practices on Safety and Total Quality Management
Jharsuguda, Odisha, 13th May 2026: Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium, reinforced its commitment to workplace safety and operational excellence by organizing a comprehensive Business Partner Workshop on Safety and Total Quality Management (TQM) in Jharsuguda. The workshop saw participation from more than 115 representatives from over 20 major business partners working with the company.
Envisioned as a collaborative platform, the workshop focused on further enhancing the plant’s rigorous safety protocols, strengthening quality controls and fostering a shared commitment to ensuring zero harm across operations. The forum enabled strong alignment on leadership intent, operational discipline and behavioural expectations, with a clear objective of achieving zero injury and 100% compliance with safety standards across all operational areas. A key highlight of the workshop was the collective safety pledge taken by business partner leadership teams alongside Vedanta’s senior management, reaffirming their shared commitment to ensuring Zero Harm across all workplaces, driving 100% adherence to safety rules, systems and statutory requirements, and demonstrating visible safety leadership through consistent on-ground engagement. The pledge also underscored the need to strengthen discipline, supervision and accountability at every level of operations.
The event also focused on critical evaluations of existing safety practices and the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) practices across operations. In manufacturing operations, TQM serves as a key enabler for building a culture of excellence, emphasizing continual improvement, customer satisfaction and active employee involvement. It is based on treating all possible workplace accidents and injuries as preventable through proactive risk management, strengthening discipline and ensuring uniform quality standards across operations.
Addressing the participants, C Chandru, CEO, Vedanta Jharsuguda, said, “Safety and quality are core elements of our operations and fundamental to the way we work and grow. Maintaining a high degree of excellence in both these areas requires collective ownership, consistent systems and strong partnerships.”
Chandan Sharma, CEO, Rajendra Mechanical Private Limited (RMPL) added, “Workshops such as these play a vital role in strengthening safety standards while bringing clarity, alignment and consistency to best‑in‑class practices in manufacturing operations. Vedanta Aluminium’s leadership‑driven focus on safety and quality excellence fosters shared accountability among business partners and helps raise benchmarks for operational safety.”
Vedanta Aluminium continues to strengthen its safety culture through a steady rhythm of daily checks, regular reviews and leadership-led audits that keep safety at the centre of every shift. This is complemented by a series of people-focused initiatives at the smelter ranging from awareness drives and family engagement programmes to coaching interventions and behaviour-based safety initiatives, ensuring safety remains intuitive, visible and deeply embedded in everyday operations. This consistent and human-centric approach has earned national recognition, including the CII Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Award 2025 and the Kalinga Safety Award 2025, underscoring the plant’s strong safety governance and disciplined execution.
About Vedanta Limited:
Vedanta Limited, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Limited, is one of the world’s leading Oil & Gas and Metals company with significant operations in Oil & Gas, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Iron Ore, Steel, and Aluminium & Power across India, South Africa and Namibia. For two decades, Vedanta has been contributing significantly to nation building. Governance and sustainable development are at the core of Vedanta's strategy, with a strong focus on health, safety, and environment. Vedanta has put in place a comprehensive framework to be the ESG leader in the natural resources sector. Vedanta is committed to reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050 or sooner and has pledged $5 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate the transition to net zero operations. Giving back is in the DNA of Vedanta, which is focused on enhancing the lives of local communities. The company’s flagship social impact program, Nand Ghars, have been set up as model anganwadis focused on eradicating child malnutrition, providing education, healthcare, and empowering women with skill development. Under the aegis of the Anil Agarwal Foundation, the umbrella entity for Vedanta’s social initiatives, the Vedanta group has pledged Rs 5000 crore over the next five years on social impact programmes with a thrust on nutrition, women & child development, healthcare, animal welfare, and grass-root level sports. Vedanta and the group companies have been featured in Dow Jones Sustainability Index, and was conferred Frost & Sullivan Sustainability Awards 2020, Golden Peacock Award for excellence in Corporate Governance 2022 and certified as a Great Place to Work 2022. Vedanta Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange.
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About Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited Business:
Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited, a business of Vedanta Limited, is India’s largest producer of aluminium, manufacturing more than half of India’s aluminium i.e., 2.37 million tonnes in FY24. It is a leader in value-added aluminium products that find critical applications in core industries. Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited ranks 1st in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment 2023 world rankings for the aluminium industry, a reflection of its leading sustainable development practices. With its world-class aluminium smelters, alumina refinery and power plants in India, the company fulfils its mission of spurring emerging applications of aluminium as the ‘Metal of the Future’ for a greener tomorrow.
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