Safer Night Shifts for Women in IT and BPO Sectors – Police Commissioner Order
Posted on: 24/Feb/2014 4:21:18 PM
As continuous story of horrific rapes grips Chennai, the IT and BPO industry which has a sizable chunk of women employees should further tightens its safety measures, ordered by Commissioner George.
In country`s IT & BPO sector, women account for 35% and 50% of the total workforce respectively, all were travelling at night without enough safety measures and facing lot struggles till they reach home. Safety measures for women employees is an ongoing process and doesn`t come to light only when incidents including Delhi rape case, Nirbhaya`s story and Pratibha Murthy story in Bangalore pops up.
The industry got a wake-up call with the horrific rape and murder of Uma Mageshwari in Siruseri, Chennai recently.
To increase the safety measures for women employees, software sector have been advised to enable supervision cameras predominantly near the entrance and vehicle parking areas.
For women employees travelling at night, strict and thorough background checks are done on the driver and security guards who accompany them home.
IT and BPO industry should have a stringent per-engagement screening process of its transport vendors by sharing records with the police. It should have created a database of blacklisted drivers, which needs to be updated and distributed regularly.
