World Day for Safety and Health at Work is a day set aside by international labour organisations that focuses on the strategy to strengthen occupational safety and health system resilience to face crises in the workplace
Against this backdrop, safety agencies have taken to the street of Lagos defying the gridlock to sensitize the public on the need for safety at the workplace.
While addressing media team at the world Safety Day rally in Lagos, the Director General of Lagos State Safety Commission Mr Lanre Mojola said the whole point for us is to be able to nip accident in the bud and also to protect and preserve our people.
All the OSH association has come out today to also say with one voice that “we need to push more to get this bill. We are going into the 10th assembly and we will continue to push to ensure that that bill is reality.
Mr.Majola also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to Sign the occupational safety bill into law. This According to them will ensure that the safety and health of workers is given due attention by employers.
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary Environmental Health Safety Professional Mrs Aderonke Odeneye
(Retired) reiterated that all we do is live and work and we need an enabling environment to work and live safe, and we need the bill to become an act so that it can be operational and we can have a safe live free of injuries and diseases that can lead to death.
Also, the Executive Director, Safety Advocate,engr.Jamiu Badmos emphasised that whenever there is one accident, and one person dies, it is not one person you killed but all the dependents of the person involved.
Let us all use the word empathy to sign this act.
Mr. Dapo Omolade,
National Coordinator, The Safety Advocates left know stone unturned by saying what we have at present is no longer suitable. It can no longer protect the Nigerian workers and that is why we say “all manner of incident in workplace that are not even necessary, Nigerians Die in their numbers in Nigeria here, while working and we need a legal instrument that will empower everyone especially the OSH professionals to be able to implement safety in the workplace and in the society.
While calling on organizations to re-direct attention to the issue of safety and health at the workplace, the Permanent Secretary stated that three hundred and forty million occupational accidents occur every year globally and one hundred and sixty million work-related injuries.
We also use the medium to acknowledge the great efforts of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his administrative, Lagos State Safety Commission and Lagos state Fire service, Ministry of special duties
The theme for this year’s world safety and health day is a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right at work.
