ABC NIGERIA
Plc is committed to have a systematic approach to Occupational Health and
Safety management designed to
- Ensure
compliance with the law
- Achieve
continuous performance improvement and
- Ensure
employees work in the healthiest and safest conditions that are reasonably
practicable to provide.
The Board of
Directors is ultimately responsible for seeing that this policy is carried out.
To this end,
the Board has delegated specific responsibilities to ensure that appropriate
arrangements and procedures are in place.
Prime responsibility for the day to day
activities lies with every individual employee and contractor who should do
everything possible to prevent injury to one or others.
-Management
ranks Health & Safety equally with other responsibility such as quality,
cost control, production, etc. This means that everything reasonably
practicable is done to improve conditions in the design, construction and
operation of all working areas, buildings and equipment, so as to provide a
safe and healthy workplace and environment not only for our employees, but also
for the community and members of the public who may visit our premises.
- To
achieve this, management will
- Set
targets for improvement
- Measure,
appraise and report performance
- Require
contractors to manage Health and Safety in line with this policy.
- Include
Health and Safety performance in the appraisal of all employees.
Specific details out lining the means whereby
the aims of this policy will be achieved are contained in our :
- Safety
Manual, ABC Nigeria Plc, Organization
and Arrangement
- This
safety manual also defines the specific responsibilities of managers, and
staff, working practices and procedures. It is issued to every employee and is
updated and revised by the company as and when circumstances require.
- The
Board of Directors approved this policy in December 2002, and has revised it in
November 2011. The Board will monitor performance at least annually by means of
a review by the Company’s Safety Committee.
- The policy applies to departments
and agencies, contractors, visitors, e.t.c
A commitment to set up a viable safety
and health management system
Departments must implement the requirement of
the Factories Act, 1990 and comply with this policy, establish and maintain
effective health and safety programme consistent with company policies,
standards and procedures.
Commitment to provide facilities, employ
appropriately skilled personnel and maintain continued training programme for
them.
- Commitment of reasonable budget to
finance safety and health services
- Commitment to share all relevant
information that will help to enhance the safety and health of all workers.
- Commitment to comply with national
standards as a minimum base
- National Policy on Occupational
Safety and Health
- Key
features of a national policy on occupational safety and health
- The
policy reflects tripartite participation, ie. There were input from employers’
and workers’ organization as well as from government and others involved in the
area of occupational health and safety.
- The
policy is consistent with national developmental objectives and policies as a
whole.
- The
policy promotes the right of workers to decent, safe and healthy working
conditions and environment.
- The
policy includes ways of promoting adequate public awareness and eliciting
political endorsement at the highest level of Government.
- The
policy should promote the development of a national preventive safety and
health culture that include information, consultation and training
- The
policy should include a plan for mobilizing the necessary institutional and
financial resources
- Coordination
among all concerned institution should be fostered as an inherent element of
the policy.
- All
available means of action should be used consistently.
- The
policy should encourage voluntary compliance at enterprise level.
- The
policy should be reviewed regularly.
National Strategy
- Increasing the commitment of employers and
workers in the field of OSH
- Enhancing the roles and functions of all
sectors in the implementation of OSH
- Enhancing employers’ and workers’ ability,
understanding, attitude, and behavior in relation to OSH culture
- Implementing OSH through risk management and
the management of risky behavior conclusion
A good H
& S Management as required by legislations
- Ensures
H & S compliance & conformance with standards, legislations
- Ensures
staff is trained to manage in-house H & S programme on daily bases.
- Makes
provisions for accident investigation services & root course analysis
should an accident occur.
- Controls
workplace hazards via “elimination, isolation and minimization” to reduce
workplace risks to employees
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