By Divine Sam
As part of their corporate social responsibilities to profuse safety solutions to the society and as well perform sensitisation to enlighten people working under construction firms, the Nigeria institution of safety engineers (NISafetyE) has donated some Personal Protective Equipment PPE to saw mill dealers in port Harcourt. The chapter gathered lots of PPE materials to help the hazardous-prone saw mill in portharcourt.
The state Chairman of the (NISafetyE) Engr. John Onyemenam together with members of the state executive council made the donation during their industrial visit to the saw mill on a program tagged ” operation use your PPE” recently
The program which started earlier this year when some team of engineers who visited various constructive work site to enlighten workers on the need to apply PPE also prolonged to various saw-mile locations in the state.
The chairman of the (NISafetyE) Engr. John Onyemenam while addressing the workers narrated the essence of the program and why it was conceive to curb dangerous situations during working hours.
Engr. John in his sensitization to the workers also enlighten them the meaning of PPE, the use of PPE, the different type of PPE’s and sighted instances on serious incidents occurred due to lack of prevention measures.
Onyemenam also highlighted the advantages of using PPE to include long team effect of noise without ear plugs and others. He listed some of the regulations to include periodic hand washing, use of face masks and hand sanitisers, which the company observed, could help protect the people from contracting the virus.
The workers in their positive reactions commended the (NISafetyE) boss in Rivers State for the lecture, adding that they have learnt a lots from the sensitisation and promised to adhere to the practice of safety and equally take safety issues serious by using PPE on their daily working routine.
Receiving the items on behalf of the workers the MD of the saw mill welcomed the leadership of (NISafetyE) in the state and gave a brief history of the mill and how he has effortlessly worked to provide preventive materials to his workers but all efforts seems to prove Abortive, as they dumped it and prefer working with bare-body. He assure to engage them more for use of PPE.
He narrated a sad account of a neibourhood fellow who came to fetch water in their facility while it was raining and was electrocuted; he said the event made him to be conscious and practice safety.
He thanked the (NISafetyE) specially for the kind gesture, noting that with the current wave of dangerous incidents happening need serious precaution. The MD said the items came at a strategic period targeted at helping the workers with personal protective materials against any unexpected casualty.
After a tour round the facility by NISafetyE, group photograph was taken with workers.