Amb. Olusegun Aderemi, President, Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHAssociation), UK-Nigeria Region, on Friday advised Nigerians to adhere to safety precautions to avoid hazards.
Aderemi gave the advice in an interview in Abuja.
According to him, it has become important to draw people’s attention to the relevance of safety precautions to safeguard lives and property.
“As an association, saving lives is one of our responsibilities by ensuring safety in homes and workplaces, as COVID-19 pandemic threw many parts of the world into darkness.
“In history, such as the most terrible time to think about, so we had to make sure that lives were saved.
“We are all making sure things go back to normal; the pandemic has taught us great lessons.
“We are working with different organizations and parastatal agencies to sensitise the public on what safety is all about,” he said
The regional president said that safety rules were part of fundamental rules.
“Values and morals that organizations and our parents gave to us when we were growing up are also very important.
“We also need to find ways to avoid a reoccurrence of the pandemic and hazards”, he said.
The regional president promised to work closely with various organizations to promote the inclusion of safety rules on signposts to encourage people to adhere to them.
He disclosed that the organization had put measures in place to collaborate with government agencies to allocate safety rules post to achieve targets.
“This will remind them of what they already know but are not doing; avoiding disaster is part of our responsibilities.
“Since we have zero tolerance for casualty, we need to inform organisations about safety and health hazards in our day-to-day lives.
“In whatever people do in their organisations or workplaces, safety should be considered,” he added.
Aderemi said that a 260-man National Safety Advocacy Project Committees headed by 20 professors drawn from 20 universities were inaugurated for 2021-2022.
He said that 10 professors from 10 universities would supervise sub-committees sector-by-sector to proffer solutions, adding that N10 billion had been stipulated to unveil the project on April 28.
