Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) bagged 4 awards under different category during the "National Safety Awards (Mines) 2015 & 2016" award ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on December 16, 2019. The award was given away by Hon’ble Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu. CCL won the awards in the below given category.

SN Category Recipient

 01 LOWEST INJURY FREQUENCY RATE (LIFR) PER MILLION CUM. OUTPUT, 2016 JARANGDIH OPENCAST PROJECT, KATHARA AREA, CCL (Winner)

02 LOWEST INJURY FREQUENCY RATE (LIFR) PER MILLION CUM. OUTPUT, 2015 AMRAPALI OPENCAST PROJECT, CCL (Runner Up)

03 LOWEST INJURY FREQUENCY RATE (LIFR) PER LAKH MANSHIFT, 2015         JARANGDIH OPENCAST PROJECT, KATHARA AREA, CCL (Runner Up)

04 LONGEST ACCIDENT FREE PERIOD (LAFP), 2016                         SELECTED DHORI QRY.NO.1 (KALYANI PROJECT), CCL (Runner Up)

Safety has been the foremost priority at CCL and Management under the dynamic leadership of CMD Shri Gopal Singh has been motivating the employees and creating the awareness among the employees and different stakeholders through various tools. Endeavour has been made to encourage the employees to conduct regular safety meetings and come up with suggestion to implement them too. These efforts of the CCL management have reaped the desired awards and these recognition is an live example of this.

To promote a competitive spirit amongst mine operators for the betterment of safety standards in mines and give due recognition to outstanding safety performance at the national level, the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India, instituted the National Safety Awards (Mines) in 1983 as the contest year 1983 with 1984 as Award year.

For the purpose of the contest for National Safety Awards (Mines) all mines have been divided into 7 different groups depending upon the type of mineral and nature of workings. The indicators of safety performance for determining eligibility of these awards are:

To scrutinize and adjudge applications from mines for awards, a tripartite National Safety Awards Committee has been constituted by the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The Committee comprises of eight representatives from mine managements, eight representatives from trade unions and Government represented by Director General as Chairman and one officer of DGMS as its.

CCL is committed to go all the way to ensure safetyand welfare of each and every member of its extended family. DT (P&P), CCL, Shri Bhola Singh and GM (Safety) Shri S V Marathe, GM (Mining), Shri Prakash Chanda and other CCL Officers were present.