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Sahara Group Urges Increased Awareness on Occupational Safety and Health

Apr 26, 2021   •   by   •   Source: Proshare   •   eye-icon 391 views

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Leadingenergy conglomerate, Sahara Group has called for increased stakeholdercollaboration towards achieving sustained awareness campaigns and interventionsthat will enhance workplace safety and health across the globe.

 

AdeniyiIge, Safety Manager at Sahara Group, said employers and employees need to adopta unified approach to safety and health issues to safeguard lives anddrastically reduce the number of work-related deaths and injuries.

 

Igesaid as the world marks another Safety and Health at Workday on April 28, thefocus must be on how increasing investment and participation of allstakeholders can make Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) contribute to theachievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, to ensure healthy livesand promote well-being for all at all ages and SDG 8, to promote inclusive andsustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all.

 

"Workplacesafety and health issues must be seen as everyone's business and should beinstutionalised in a manner that makes everyone's involvement crystal clear.The International Labour Organisation estimates that about 2.78 million workersdie from occupational accidents annually, while lost workdays globallyrepresent almost 4% of the world's GDP. This trend highlights the need for asystemic approach to effective management of Occupational Safety and Health(OSH) concerns at work. We must all make safety first a way of life within andoutside the workplace," he said.

 

Igesaid collaboration, investment and adoption of technology would help achievetimely identification and monitoring of health and safety hazards within theworkplace; train employees to minimize and/or avoid any risks associated withtheir jobs; review health and safety legislation to ensure compliance with themost recent standards; perform safety inspections of the workplace environmentand write workplace-specific safety policies and best practices.

 

Headded: "It is essential for businesses to have consistent OSH awarenessprogrammes and interventions that are proactive and tailored to addressexisting and potential safety and health issues in the workplace. From obvioushazards like banana peels to potential power surges and mental health issues,the OSH approach focus must be holistic, collaborative, and relentless. Theimpact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses shows that the world needs to beprepared always to take on workplace safety and health issues to safeguardglobal economic development and prosperity."

 

TheWorld Day for Safety and Health at Work is celebrated by the InternationalLabor Organization (ILO) annually on 28th April as an awareness-raisingcampaign to promote the prevention of accidents and diseases at work globally.It gives international attention on the magnitude of the problem and on howpromoting and creating a safety and health culture can help reduce the numberof work-related deaths and injuries.


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