ABL marks world day for safety & health at work
Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) has joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Day for Safety and Health at Work with an array of stress and environmental management awareness activities within the company.
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The brewer of Club Premium Lager beer employs over 1,000 permanent and short-term workers and is, therefore, keen on creating a safe and stress-free environment for its employees whom it considers its enduring advantage.
The company said the commemoration of day at ABL was the culmination of a month-long awareness creation campaign around workplace safety at the brewery.
The campaign was to draw attention to the current global trends on work-related stress and its impact on the workforce through the dissemination of safety videos, posters, and write-ups on stress management.
ABL has over the years intensified its safety education with numerous activities, including the creation of monthly safety awareness themes with safety competitions, emergency evacuation drills, trainings of first aiders and fire fighters to improve on the company’s emergency response as well as evacuation procedures among employees, contractors and visitors.
The Site Services Manager, Mr Emmanuel Agyekum, who is also the lead contact responsible for safety within the brewery, noted with delight the improvement in the safety culture among employees; decrease in unsafe acts and the appropriate wearing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) which had resulted in the reduction of injuries reported on site in the past year compared to previous years.
“ABL has a moral and legal obligation to safeguard employees and visitors to its site against risks to health, safety or loss associated with our activities. Our focus on hazard identification and control as well as emergency response management has yielded significant results thereby reducing man hours lost to accidents on our premises,” he said.
The Managing Director of ABL, Mr Anthony Grendon, in a message to employees said, “safety is non-negotiable and safety is everyone’s business. Stress at the workplace is a reality, hence it is important for one to understand how to deal with it effectively.”
