This document discusses occupational safety and health (OSH) in Delta State and Nigeria. It notes that OSH culture is lacking due to few regulations and research, as well as limited public information and compliance. The oil and gas industry dominates but there is no obligatory OSH practice. It recommends engineers promote OSH by developing safety policies and sensitizing the government to pass OSH legislation in order to reduce workplace accidents that cost lives and money every year in Nigeria. Engineers should design structures safely and encourage a safety culture at home and work.
Occupational health and safety in Delta State, Nigeria
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2. 1. Discuss the advantages of
OSHP to engineers and their society
2. Discuss opportunities to Promote OSHP in
Delta State and in our society
3. Discuss the challenges to good OSH culture
and proffer solutions
4. Intimate Engineers on the role
they have to play
3. Occupational health and safety is concerned with protecting the
safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work, employment
or business.
Every 15 seconds: a worker
dies from a work-related
accident or disease
Every 15 seconds: 153
workers have a work-related
accident. www.ilo.org
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5. Industries? Oil and Gas Dominant
Legislation? No
Records and Research? Very Few
Obligatory compliance and practice? No
Public information about OHS? Limited
6. •Too much issues on
their plate right now
•No government
enforcement
•Penny wise pound
foolish mentality
•Lack of information
and sensitisation
8. •Always think Safely
•Use the AAA Slogan
•Encourage safe work in activities
at home
•Initiate or develop a Health and
safety management policy for our
offices, departments or
organisations
•Sensitise government on need for
OHS Legislation and culture
•Design Safely!
