Safety is one of the critical issues for all bulk drug manufacturers where as in formulation manufacturers it is not very critical.  Bulk drug manufacturer handles variety of flammable, explosive and other hazardous chemicals during their processes.  Unless these cluster firms understand the nature of hazard and deploy suitable fire fighting systems, any untoward incident can cause lot of property and human damage.

Even though, the safety is critical to all API and intermediate manufactures, many of cluster firms either due to their insufficient understanding on these systems or busy with other business related activities or huge cost involved in creating facilities to meet the requirements, enough attention was not given to safety. SMEs interested for any intervention in the form of training to their production personnel, safety audits of the facilities etc. Also advisable to create common fire fighting facilities to meet all types of fire classes in each industrial development area.