Human Capital

Building a Productive and Performance-driven Team

At Bharat Forge, our dedicated and diverse employees enable us to deliver on our objective with their passion, excellence and innovative spirit. With the business landscape in which we operate significantly-evolving, we are empowering them with future-ready skills with unique learning programs. We are attracting best talent and building a robust leadership pipeline to drive our competitiveness.

SDGs Impacted

Driving Future-readiness of People

Automation is an important focus area for Bharat Forge. We are training people on Industry 4.0, Sensor, Robotics, and Manufacturing Engineering. In FY 2022, 130 employees were trained on automation and 27 on CNC Programming. A skill development program up to the grassroot level was also initiated whereby 700 workmen were trained in batches for 21 days.

Further, BFL leveraged online learning methodology to help employees understand advance engineering concepts and put their knowledge into action.

Our online THORS learning platform has been vital in enabling employees understand advance engineering concepts and put their knowledge into action. In FY 2022, online skill evaluation tests were conducted for 1,600+ employees to evaluate their technical and managerial, and accordingly training needs have been identified which will be conducted in the next fiscal.


FY 2022 Training Coverage

3,751

Employees trained on health and safety/wellness measures

1,886

Employees provided skill upgradation training

Building a Leadership Pipeline

As the business evolves with the continuing changes in the ecosystem with stronger focus on sunrise sectors such as E-mobility & Defence, the management recognized the need to shape our growth agenda and augment our position of strength with new capabilities. To achieve this goal, lateral hiring at senior leadership level is being recruited for the business verticals. Simultaneously, the HR policies is being modified to attract, train, retain domain leaders with specific skill sets.


Scoring High on Health and Safety of Employees

We have in place a robust health, safety and environment policy and have taken measures compliant with all statutory preventive healthcare and occupational health and safety requirements. We emphasize on training employees on various safety parameters. Further, measures like Hazard Identification Risk Assessment, safety observation and near-miss reporting are being conducted to improve performance. The Safety Committee ensures right oversight and guidance.

COVID-19 Safety Measures

Work from Home (WFH)


  • Introduced WFH policy
  • Virtual platforms for all internal and external meetings

Workplace safety


  • No visitor policy
  • Stringently following all SOPs

Support systems


  • Personel connect with all employees
  • COVID war room and 24x7 manned helpdesk
  • Teleconsultation, hospital tie-ups

Vaccination


  • ~100% of all eligible employees vaccinated

COVID-19 training and regrouping


  • Bi-weekly virtual meetings of HR and weekly HOD meetings for review
  • Weekly COVID sessions

Our Safety Performance

0.30

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) (per one million-person hours worked)

3

Total recordable work-related injuries

ZERO

Fatalities or high consequence work-related injury or ill-health

Diversity at Bharat Forge

By Qualification

  • Engineers
    1,055
  • Post-graduates + PhD
    348
  • Other graduates
    771
  • Diploma + ITI
    2,078
  • Others
    189

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