Sustainability

Health, Safety and Environment

Lux is Building a Secure, Responsible and Sustainable Future

Overview

Lux’s HSE (health-safety-environment) policy ensures the highest health, safety and environmental standards. The Company provides a safe workplace and clean environment that protects worker health. The highest HSE standards strengthen the Company’s position as a responsible corporate citizen.
This HSE approach results in few work interruptions, enhancing output, safeguarding workforce interests, fostering employee cum knowledge retention while moderating costs(direct and indirect) and enhancing corporate respect.

HSE Policy

The Company views its HSE Policy as a reflection of its core values and vision for sustainable success. The Company’s senior management’s strategic planning, monitoring and rigorous reviews assures effective HSE management practices.Their visible commitment sets an example for staff engagement, promoting safe
working conditions and minimal environment impact. The policy ensures operations that prioritise employee and third-party well-being. The Board emphasises effective leadership and encourages employee engagement in perational safety.

Principles

The Company embraced the following HSE guardrails:

  • Adhere to health, safety and environmental laws and regulations.
  • Prioritise safety and environmental management; establish policies and practices for healthy, safe and environmentally sound operations.
  • Enhance awareness of environmental issues, the Company’s impact and educate, train and motivate members for responsible environmental practices.
  • Enhance the community’s understanding of safety measures, reducing injuries and minimising events that could harm individuals’ health, safety and the environment.
  • Promote openness and dialogue, engage with the community and address their concerns about potential hazards and impacts from operations, services, or waste.
  • Develop, design and operate facilities with a focus on safe and efficient energy and material use, sustainable renewable resources, minimal environmental impact and responsible waste management through reuse, recycling, or disposal.
  • Encourage agents and contractors to adopt the guiding principles, requiring improvements to align with the Company’s practices, and promote broader adoption of these principles among suppliers.
  • Encourage pollution prevention and waste abatement through institutional changes, including purchasing policies and specifications.
  • Mandate compliance with safety, health and environmental laws and regulations for all community members, stakeholders and others using company property or engaging in business activities.
  • Contribute to employee policy, business, governmental programs and training initiatives that promote environmental awareness and protection.
 Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency

The Company adopts energy-efficient practices, such as installing capacitors to improve plant load factor and reduce operational costs. Additionally, energy-saving LED lighting systems have replaced legacy systems, resulting in lower energy consumption.

 Emissions Management
Emissions Management

Generating power from clean renewable sources reduces greenhouse gas emission and promotes a cleaner environment. At the Dankuni facility, the Company installed a 1 MW rooftop solar panel that meets 35% of the plant’s electricity demands. The Company is also exploring opportunities to enhance its renewable energy capacity at other locations as well.

Waste Management
Waste Management

The Company has optimised the fabric cutting process with advanced technologies; 95% of the leftover fabric cuttings are resold for onward recycling.

Commitment
Commitment

The Company complies with all relevant safety, health and environmental laws governing its operations, validating its responsible citizenship.

Accident Prevention

The Company is committed to the following:
  • Prevent or reduce human and economic losses from accidents and adverse occupational exposures.
  • Encourage employees to actively participate in their safety and health, as well as the safety and health of others.
  • Promote openness and dialogue among members to prevent workplace injuries and encouraging employees to promptly report incidents and accidents.

Pollution Prevention

The Company is committed to:

  • Identifying and executing optimal pollution prevention opportunities.
  • Minimising waste and resource consumption (materials, fuel and energy).
  • Actively seeking opportunities for reuse, recovery and recycling instead of disposal.
  • Minimising significant environmental impacts in operations using integrated environmental management procedures and involving the workforce community.
 Our Improvements
Our Improvements

The Company is committed to enhance policies, programs and environmental/safety/health performance, considering regulatory changes, technical advancements, scientific knowledge, company requirements, and community expectations.

Our Environment Commitment
Our Environment Commitment

At Lux, we made strategic investments to underline our eco-friendliness. Our factories use environment-friendly technologies coupled with a 1 MW rooftop solar panel at the Dankuni unit addressing around 45% of the power needs from renewable sources. The use of advanced processing technology helped save 2 lakhs litres of water a day. The Company maintained zero emissions and process waste, reselling and recycling 95% of cutting process waste. The Company’s products comprised approximately 90% natural fibre as primary raw material; recyclable materials were used in packaging.

Our Social Commitment
Our Social Commitment

Safety is becoming a critical measure of success. Respected companies prioritise returning employees safely home, protecting communities near operations, and ensuring consumer well-being. Lux is committed to safe practices, materials use, and continuous improvements in Quality, Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental (QHSE) management for the benefit of employees, vendors and the community.