The Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria (ISPON), has stressed the need for synergy and collaboration with Ministries, Departments and Agencies for an effective safety management Nigeria.
This was among other decisions reached after a one day Inter-agency Stakeholders Collaboration Conference for ministries, department and agencies in Abuja, with the theme, “INTER-AGENCY SYNERGY: A Veritable Tool for Effective Safety Management and Regulation in Nigeria”.
Participants agreed that the issue of regulating the practice of safety management in Nigeria is long overdue.
The first stakeholders meeting to achieve this was held in Lagos over twenty years ago, which was geared towards systematically identifying and analyzing, planning and implementing action designed to influence stockholders and to bring together safety professionals, practitioners, agencies of government, public and private sector organization, the manufacturing, commercial, telecommunications, Hospitality Industry, Agriculture, Mining, Entertainment Industry, Construction, Power in practice of safety management in Nigeria.
President of the Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria, Mr. Kaizer Ebiwari, in his opening remarks, noted that the strategic stakeholder management was about building an understanding of the culture of safety, including stakeholder mapping, analyzing and building safety relationships based on trust and transparency and ensuring consistency in stakeholder safety management and communication and setting standards of safety service, possibly new ways to initiate plans for a particular situation and a better understanding of the local situation by technical experts and group members.
In his words; “As part of our engagement process, ISPON continues to collaborate with agencies of government safety management in Nigeria, as stipulated in the Institute of Safety Professional of Nigeria Act, 2014 ensuring that sets of rules and codes of practices are put in place to mark workplaces and other areas safe and not dangerous.
“New technologies are evolving on a daily basis with high risks and if these risk are not observed critically it will result into dangerous occurrences that will lead to loss of lives and destruction of properties worth billions of Naira.
Ebiwari, further stated that high risks are mostly recorded in the mining sector, oil and gas processes, high rise building construction, the power and telecommunications sector, the marine and the aviation industry that brings about the avionic safety.
“An effective safety management reduces the risk of workplace incidents, injuries and fatality through data-driven measurements and continuous improvements systems, which involve people from different parts of the organization to make safety a shared responsibility, be well organized and structured to ensure consistent growth and performance and be proactive, preventive and integrated into the culture of the entire organization and ensuring sustained safety culture”. He remarked.
Other Speakers, who spoke, called on the government to set up a Council of Safety Professionals like other bodies to regulate and ensure safety standards in Nigeria.
Goodwill messages were received from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, NNPC Subsidiaries, Abuja Environmental protection Board, Petroleum Training Institute, Warri, Ministries of Mine and Steel Development, Health, and other stakeholders.
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