Lagos State Government has stressed the need for workplaces to train their personnel in adherence to safety regulations, especially in electricity.
The Director-General of Lagos State Safety Commission, Mr. Lanre Mojola, said this during a day stakeholders’ training in electricity safety causes, in conjunction with BIMSUL ventures, in Alausa, Ikeja.
He said once a particular mistake was committed by a worker, there was probability that such might affect the whole and entire factory, hence the need for the workers to take precautionary measures to avoid making the mistake and let all hands be on deck “to ensure safety at all times in our workplace.”
Mojola said,
“Safety is everybody’s business, hence the need for all of us to take safety as a collective responsibility, do away with complacency at the workplace, learn new ways and involve in a consistent training workshop that will assist to make our personnel better equipped.
“We need to take issues of safety very important because the statistics are glaring; there are 2.3 million accidents in a year, 6,300 a day and 260 an hour. We will like workplaces to ensure that they follow these regulatory processes and obtain their safety clearance certificate and ensure their safety officers are registered appropriately.”
A safety expert, Mr. Ojetokun Oluwole, presented a paper on ‘Safe work processing standard operating procedures (SOP) and identification of hazard in equipment, power tools and portable hands tools’.
He urged workers to ensure their work environment is safe at all times and anytime they notice any error in their work equipment, it should be reported and get immediate solution.
Another guest speaker, Mr. Adebiyi Adeyinka, who lectured on electrical safety and solution in the manufacturing sector, said 80 per cent of hazards at the workplace was usually as a result of human error, adding that all hands must be on deck to avert incessant occurrence.