National Safety Day 2023: National Safety Day is observed annually on March 4 with the goal of promoting a safe working environment and ensuring people’s safety in all aspects. National Safety Day 2023 is observed to raise awareness about safety measures and protocols in order to prevent any type of untoward incident. The campaign is comprehensive, general and flexible with an appeal to the participating organisations to develop specific activities as per their safety requirements. This year will mark the onset of the 52nd National Safety Day.
February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz
National Safety Day 2023: Theme
‘Our Aim – Zero Harm’ is the theme for National Safety Day in 2023. Every year, the National Safety Council of India (NSC) publishes the theme of National Safety Day and urges organizations to lead the safety campaign to educate people about industrial safety.
National Safety Day: Significance
The occasion provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of safety precautions and measures in preventing mishaps. It aims to broaden the reach of the Safe, Health, and Environment (SHE) movement. Other objectives of the day include bringing together stakeholders from different industrial sectors and encouraging them participate in the SHE movement. It also aims to promote SHE activities and remind employees, employers, and everyone else involved that adequate steps must be taken to achieve a safer workplace.
National Safety Day: Objectives
- to take Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) movement to different parts of the country.
- to achieve participation of major players in different industrial sectors at different levels.
- to encourage employers to use a participative approach by involving their employees in SHE activities.
- to promote development of need-based activities, self-compliance with statutory requirements and professional SHE management systems at work places.
- to bring into the fold of voluntary SHE movement sectors, which have not so far been statutorily covered.
- to remind employers, employees, and others concerned about their role in making workplaces safer.
National Safety Day: History
The first Conference on Industrial Safety was held in 1965 by the Government of India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment. It was held in collaboration with employers’ organisations, state governments, and other trade unions and institutions from December 11 to December 13. In the conference, the various bodies realized the need for setting up National and State Safety Councils.
The proposal for a National Safety Council (NSC) was accepted by the 24th session of the Standing Labour Committee in February 1966. The NSC was formed on March 4, that year, by the Ministry of Labour, and was first registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and then as a public trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950.
The National Safety Day was first marked in 1971 to commemorate the founding of the National Safety Council and raise safety awareness.
