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
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
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
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
The Company has optimised the fabric cutting process with advanced technologies; 95% of the leftover fabric cuttings are resold for onward recycling.
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
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
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
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.
How Lux is Empowering Communities
Overview
The Company prioritises ethical and responsible business conduct, valuing both internal and external stakeholders, including society and the environment. It is committed to giving back to society and engaging with the communities it operates in. The CSR Committee, led by Mr. Ashok Kumar Todi (Chairman and Whole Time Director) and Mr. Pradip Kumar Todi (Managing Director), oversees the allocation of the CSR budget and approves eligible projects.
The Company’s CSR focuses on healthcare, quality education for underprivileged and tribal children, sports promotion, and social welfare. It strives to be a responsible corporate citizen, driving positive changes through community development initiatives. CSR projects are primarily managed by Lux Foundation and collaborations are made with registered trusts, societies, or Section 8 companies for undertaking CSR activities.
CSR Initiatives
Education
A residential school project for 1000+ underprivileged girls in Joka, West Bengal, is on the verge of completion and will be inaugurated by the mid of 2024 (project part-funded by Lux).
Social Upliftment
The Company initiated the development of a restroom for the economically weaker section in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal.
Promotion of Sports
The Company supported the development of sports infrastructure in New Town, Kolkata, to promote sports.
Animal Welfare
The Company contributed towards welfare of animals.
NGOs and Organisations Funded
- Help Us Help Them To provide education to unprivileged girls
- Calcutta Metropolitan Trust For Social Upliftment
- Calcutta Pinjrapole Society, Dhyan Foundation For Animal Welfare
- Shiv Shakti Seva Trust, Narayan Urja The Company contributed towards welfare of animals.
- KMC
- Friends of Tribal Society, Manipur Ved Vidya Peeth
The Company’s association with institutions facilitated outreach to marginalised and vulnerable communities, enabling effective monitoring of the impact on beneficiaries’ lives.
Obligations
Responsibilities
Management
Lux strives to provide a safe working environment with safe systems of work, made possible through plant and substances being kept in safe condition and the provision of adequate facilities for workers’ welfare. This is made possible through proper information, instruction, training and supervision.
Workers
At Lux Industries all accidents and incidents are reported immediately, as well as the misuse of anything provided for health and safety is discouraged. The cooperation of all employees, workers, customers and other persons is sought for the application of this practice.
Application of this Policy
Lux Industries encourages suggestions to realise our health and safety objectives for the creation of a safe working environment with a zero-accident