The National Safety Council of India (NSCI)
has prepared this Working Paper. The
study has been carried out under the guidance of Mr. K. C. Gupta, Director General, NSCI,
Dr. M. Sriram, Expert Panel Member, NSCI and Mr V. B. Patil, Deputy Director, NSCI.
This Working Paper is a part of follow-up activities to the Tripartite Meeting on Best
Practices in Work Flexibility Schemes and their Impact on the Quality of Working Life in
the Chemical Industries, Geneva, 2003 to meet a request of the conclusions of the Meeting
which state, inter alia, that: “[t]he ILO should carry out comparative studies on vocational
training in developing countries, intermediate countries and developed countries”.
There is no databank available from which one can draw information or data about
VET in the fragmented chemical industry in
India. The number of very small chemical
entities do not make available to the public even the financial information filed by public
limited companies. In this milieu of limited info
rmation, the methodology used in the study
was to visit a few representative companies and garner information through personal
interview.
A questionnaire concentrating on the key questions of the study had been devised to
facilitate the interview. But it was found that the questionnaire mostly was not answered by
the companies. So desk research was conducted to supplement to the field study to collect
information from the chemical company’s handouts, web sites and publicly available
information.