Two workers narrowly avoided being killed or seriously injured when flames up to three metres in length shot from a leaking gas pipe during poorly planned and executed repair work. Tata Steel UK Limited, registered to Millbank, London, pleaded guilty to two separate breaches of the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations. The company was fined a total of GBP 30,000 and ordered to pay GBP 1,696 in costs.
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Tata Steel is a Global Compact participant since 2001/03/09.
Tata Steel was a USD 10,000 contributor at the Foundation for the Global Compact both in 2009 and 2010.
This blog provides information on how U.N. Global Compact participants' walk the talk. The GC is a voluntary initiative at the strategic level to engage businesses towards sustainability principles. There is however a risk of 'blue-washing' by covering up corporate misbehaviour and law infringement from large MNEs through poorly enforced 'Integrity Measures' and weak U.N supervision. Let's 'WE', civil society stay tuned!
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Tata Steel (former Corus) fined for dioxine emissions in the Netherlands
In October 2011, the province of Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, announced it would fine Indian conglomerate Tata Steel in IJmuiden €150,000 for breaching dioxine emission levels.
Tata Steel has been a Global Compact participant since 2001/03/09.
Read more on Dutch News
Tata Steel has been a Global Compact participant since 2001/03/09.
Read more on Dutch News
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