"Olam Ghana celebrates National Safety Day"

" \n Olam Ghana marked National Safety Day with a solemn virtual ceremony, reasserting the company\u2019s commitment to occupational safety and the good health of its employees across its operations. \n \n\n \n This year\u2019s National Safety Day celebration in Ghana ran under the theme, \u2018Positive Safety Approaches Save Lives\u2019 and was observed alongside the World International Safety Day as declared by the International Labour Organisations (ILO). \n \n\n \n Olam\u2019s commemorative ceremony was virtually attended by employees alongside the management team as well as some representative from state institutions. The ceremony underscored the need for all stakeholders to cultivate enabling environments which help to secure and guarantee a safe and healthy environment for workers. \n \n\n \n Over 1,200 employees of Olam plugged into the forum from various offices, factories and warehouses across the country to listen to officials and dignitaries who shared their views and thoughts on the importance of effective workplace safety and health regimes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n \n\n \n Hon. Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister for Employment and Labour Relations \n \n\n \n The special guest,\u00a0Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, in his keynote, addressed the global statistics on Occupational Safety and Health as provided by ILO. Minister Awuah highlighted that as many as 2.3 million workers die annually from occupational accidents or work-related diseases. In Ghana, the number of workers who suffered from workplace accidents stood at 586,213 according to the Ghana Statistical Service\u2019s Labour Force Survey of 2015. \n \n\n \n \u201cIt is against this background that we welcome current government efforts led by H. E the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to digitise public systems for improved service delivery and productivity,\u201d Mr. Baffour Awauh said, disclosing that the Department of Factories Inspectorates (DFI) conducted 3,566 workplace inspections in 2019 - a significant improvement on the 2,238 conducted the previous year. \n \n\n \n The Employment Minister said he was happy to note that random inspections of offices, shops and factories conducted from June to August 2020 by his Ministry, in conjunction with DFI and the Labour Department as part of the Government\u2019s concerted efforts to reduce infections and ensure the safety of citizens, revealed a general adherence by most workplaces to COVID 19 protocols and guidelines as prescribed by World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ghana Health Service (GHS). \n \n\n \n \u201cAmong the lessons learnt is the need for Government and industry to work together in a common effort to enforce the protocols and guidelines for fighting the pandemic. The neglect of any aspect of our shared responsibilities would have a negative and possibly fatal impact on lives. I, therefore, urge you to take the COVID-19 protocols very seriously,\u201d Mr. Baffour Awuah said. \n \n\n \n Mr. Amit Agrawal, Country Head, Olam Ghana \n \n\n \n In a special message dispatched for the occasion, Mr. Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder & Group CEO of Olam observed that Olam International has consistently improved on its safety performance indicators over the past years. \n \n\n \n Said Mr. Verghese: \u201cOver the course of the year, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives, from the risk of transmission of the virus at the workplace to the new occupational safety and health risks that have emerged as a result of precautionary measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. We however, pledge to ensure that we strengthen the ways of working at our workplaces to preempt and control certain common risks that cause these serious incidents. \n \n\n \n Mr. Verghese\u2019s pledge was underscored by Mr. Amit Agrawal, Country Head of Olam Ghana when he affirmed Olam\u2019s commitment to constantly maintain a healthy and safe workplace in all its businesses. Olam\u2019s safety program, he emphasized, is built on an inclusive philosophy which focuses on staff, contractors, as well as visitors, taking serious account of risk management procedures and timely communication in reporting issues that may cause harm. \n \n\n \n Mr. Agrawal said Olam Ghana is embarking on elaborate steps to accomplish the company\u2019s vision of embedding a \u201czero-harm culture\u201d in all of its operations, a key component of which, he said, is the recent introduction of Olam\u2019s \u2018Life-Saving Rules\u2019 aimed at improving safety at the workplace by defining and prescribing the desired behaviour for workers. \n \n\n \n He urged all employee to take safety as a collective responsibility and not just the preserve of supervisors, managers or safety leaders. \u201cIt takes all of us to be individually committed to creating \u201cAn Even Safer Olam\u201d for ourselves, our colleagues, our contractors, and our visitors. We owe this to each other,\u201d he said. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n "

"Olam Ghana celebrates National Safety Day"

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