TMEIC Bags First Place and 5 Star Rating Award for Excellence in EHS Practices By Manu Tayal/ Updated On Fri, Feb 1st, 2019 Additionally, the company’s green factory in Tumakuru has achieved carbon & water neutrality through rainwater harvesting, zero discharge, natural air ventilators, natural lighting and in-house solar power generation. Japan-based TMEIC’s Indian arm, TMEIC India has won the 5 Star Rating award for excellence in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) practices and the First Place award in the category of manufacturing-engineering/ electrical appliances during the Confederation of Indian Industry – Southern Region (CII-SR) EHS Excellence Awards 2018. The winners were selected after assessing the factory sites and benchmarking the EHS practices with others in respective sectors by thirty five EHS experts and four Jury members from among 154 participating companies across South India. Further, as an indicator of the assessment the companies are awarded with a Star Rating. CII’s Leadership and Excellence Award in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) aims to recognize, motivate and facilitate companies to adopt innovative practices in EHS, with a desire “to empower and enable a safe work environment for employees and society as a whole and put people before profits.” Commenting on the award win, TMEIC India, Managing Director, Hemant Joshi said, “The EHS certificate with a 5-star rating is an assurance of TMEIC’s commitment to the environment, our people and product reliability and quality.” Additionally, the company’s green factory in Tumakuru has achieved carbon & water neutrality through rainwater harvesting, zero discharge, natural air ventilators, natural lighting and in-house solar power generation. Tags: CII-SR EHS Excellence Awards, green factory in Tumakuru, Hemant Joshi, India, Syed Abbas, TMEIC