01
Design out the risk first
The largest safety decisions on a bridge are made in the design office. Every scheme is reviewed for what it asks a person to do at height, over water or near a live edge — and redesigned when the answer is unacceptable.
Quality, health, safety & environment
Checked by someone who did not design it.
Temporary works fail at the interfaces — between the design and the shop, between the shop and the site, between one crew and the next. Everything here is aimed at those seams.
- Lost time injuries
- 0
- Safe man-hours
- 4.2 M
- Site inductions
- 100 %
- Independent audits
- 2×
01Principles
Four rules with no site-level override.
Written down, audited, and applicable to a director on a visit exactly as much as to a first-week operative.
02
Nothing loads without a check
No temporary works structure carries load until a permit to load is signed by a competent person against the checked design. It is the single hard rule that has no site-level override.
03
The machine tells the truth
Launching and lifting equipment carries load monitoring and interlocks that stop the operation rather than warn about it. An operator should not have to be the last line of defence.
04
Report the near miss
Near misses are logged, investigated and closed with the same process as incidents. A site that reports nothing is not a safe site; it is an unmeasured one.
02Certification
Held, audited, and available on request.
Certificate numbers and issuing bodies are listed below. Copies are issued with any pre-qualification submission.
| Standard | Subject | Scope | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO 9001 | Quality management | Design, manufacture and supply of construction equipment and formwork systems | To be confirmed |
| ISO 14001 | Environmental management | Fabrication works and site operations | To be confirmed |
| ISO 45001 | Occupational health & safety | Design office, works and site operations | To be confirmed |
| ISO 3834-2 | Fusion welding — comprehensive quality | Both fabrication works | To be confirmed |
| EN 1090-1 | Execution of steel structures, EXC3 | Structural steel components and kits | To be confirmed |
| IS 3834 | Welding quality requirements | Indian scheme equivalent, both works | To be confirmed |
Certificate numbers are held back until IBEC confirms them. Populate the certificate and body fields in src/content/assurance.ts, and delete any entry that is not actually held.
03Safety record
Measured, and reported to the board.
- 0
- Lost time injuries
- 4.2 M
- Safe man-hours
- 100 %
- Site inductions
- 2×
- Independent audits
Rolling 12 months, all sites
Since the last recordable incident
Before first access, no exceptions
Every site, every quarter
04Standards
What we design to.
Indian codes as the base, European and American practice where the Indian code is silent — and always the more onerous of the two where they overlap.
Bridges
- IRC:6
- IRC:18
- IRC:24
- IRC:83
- IRC:112
- IRC:SP:37
- AASHTO LRFD
Concrete & prestress
- IS 456
- IS 1343
- IS 14268
- EN 1992
- fib Bulletin 89
- PTI M50
Steel & welding
- IS 800
- IS 2062
- EN 1090-2
- EN 1993
- ISO 3834-2
- ISO 9606-1
- ISO 15614
Temporary works
- BS 5975
- EN 12812
- EN 12810
- IS 14687
- ACI 347
Loading & environment
- IS 875
- IS 1893
- EN 1991
- ISO 8501-1
- ISO 1461
08Pre-qualification
We will send the full pack.
Management system certificates, welding procedure qualifications, welder approvals, safety statistics and a reference list. Ask and it goes out the same week.
- Projects & tenders
- projects@ibec.co.in
- Telephone
- +91 40 4000 0000
- Response
- An engineer reads every enquiry. Expect a technical reply within two working days, not a brochure.