Mumbai: Brookfield Properties today announced it is the first commercial real estate company in India to receive Bureau Veritas’ “Safeguard” label, a leading health, safety, and hygiene assessment certifications. The certification focuses on four areas of operation – safe working conditions for employees, end consumer reassurance, compliance with local regulation and consistent approach across all sites. The achievement is attributed to Brookfield Properties’ commitment to ensuring a high-quality living and working environment for employees and tenants with respect to health, safety, and hygiene across its campuses in India.

Brookfield Properties has been at the forefront of actions to ensure uninterrupted operations and maintain business continuity at all its campuses in India. The firm has been taking several initiatives and mitigating measures to keep employees, and occupants safe at Its properties. Some of the steps include, physical distancing, cleaning and sanitizing campus areas, protective suits for cleaning crew, periodic fumigation, contactless hand sanitizers, maintaining good air quality, regular temperature checks at the entryways, restricting elevator usage to four persons at a time, routine health checkups and staff training, app-based visitor management solutions, and dedicated helpline number in case of emergencies.

Alok Aggarwal, CEO and MD, Brookfield Properties said, “At Brookfield Properties, we have always kept the safety of our occupants, and employees at the forefront of our operations. Bureau Veritas Safeguard Label is a testimony to our consistent efforts towards providing everyone with a safe and clean environment, where they can work efficiently and be productive. We thank our operations and security team, who have worked tirelessly to keep our offices safe and ensure a seamless welcome for everyone back to work. Achievements like these encourage us to stay committed to operate our properties to the highest global standards and be an inspiration to others in this space.”

 Bureau Veritas is a world leader in testing, inspection, and certification services. Safeguard label is one of the most acknowledged certifications that focuses on the safety and hygiene of all places where people live and work.

“Bureau Veritas has been very quick to develop and offer an assessment scheme applicable to all kinds of organizations and acceptable globally to provide confidence to the organizations and the users of their products and services” adds Mr. Anantha Prabhu, Head of Bureau Veritas Assurance. “The organizations are practicing a robust and well managed system to ensure that the employees, and the visitors at workplace are safeguarded from all types of risks due to pandemic.

Restart Your Business with BV (RYB) is one of the most acknowledged certification schemes by Bureau Veritas that focuses on the safety and hygiene at the workplace. Safeguard label, a part of RYB is a suite of solutions to meet the needs of all sectors of the economy as they reopen for business. It addresses the specific risks to all places where people live and work, by training their teams effectively on good hygiene practices. The assessments involve verification of protective measures set up and implemented for the resumption of operations local, national, and international regulations and recognized best practices. These assessments are conducted both remotely and on site, and those who successfully meet these requirements are then awarded the Bureau Veritas Safeguard Label.

Bureau Veritas is proud to have been associated with Brookfield group in assessing their properties and certifying them for effective implementation of the Scheme”.

Meticulous field audits were conducted for all the campuses of Brookfield Properties in NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata. The measures taken to ensure the health, safety and hygiene were at par with the global standard. The Safeguard Label was granted to Brookfield Properties post the detailed evaluation for its properties in India.