Employment Minister highlights health and safety

Representatives from government industries and employers and workers organisations should actively participate and promote better reporting of fatal and non-fatal injuries as doing so will better assist government to facilitate resources to identify areas of need.

This was highlighted by the Minister of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations Jone Usamate in in commemoration of the 2017 World Day for Safety and Health and workshop in the Central Division.

Usamate says World Day for safety and health at work is an awareness rising campaign intended to focus on the critical need for countries to improve their capacity to collect and utilise occupational safety and health data.

The Employment Minister challenged all present at the workshop with the aim of improving the reporting of fatal and non-fatal accidents to ensure there are proper reporting systems for reporting all accidents in the work places and workers and management are aware of the processes involved.

Usamate says they should also develop processes for reporting of incidences and near misses as they will assist in the identification of hazards and timely initiation of preventative measures to prevent or reduce workplace accidents.

He says it is vitally important that the information retrieved is accurate and employers must at all times endure to obtain the most reliable and valid data which in turn generates up to date reports.