ABL marks World Safety Day
Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) recently joined the rest of the ABInBev Africa Zone to commemorate World Safety Day (WSD), marked annually worldwide on April 28.
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Themed, “Safe Behaviours – Safe Work, Safe Road and Safe Families”, the interactive programme took participants through road safety awareness activities within the company.
ABL has over the years intensified its safety education with numerous activities, including training of the workforce about safe behaviours, first aid and fire-fighting, to improve upon the company’s emergency response, as well as evacuation procedures among staff, contractors and visitors.
Besides declaring April as the safety awareness month, Accra Brewery Limited distributed videos, posters and write-ups on safe work and road safety to its employees across the country, calling on them to acquaint themselves with current global trends in safe work and road safety.
Speaking at the event, Chief Fire Officer of the North Industrial Area in Accra, Mr Osmond Annum, urged participants to be cautious both at the workplace and homes, in order to ensure a safer and fire-free environment.
Admonishing workers on the need to get rid of redundant combustible materials both at home and at the workplace in order to prevent fire, he stressed the need for participants to put in place measures to ensure electrical fire safety as it accounted for most of the causes of fire in homes.
The Plant Manager of ABL, Mr Richard K. Eghan, explained that while ABL recognised that safety was a shared responsibility, there were moral and legal obligations on the company to ensure the safety of its employees and the public.
He noted that the company’s focus on hazard identification and control, as well as emergency response management had yielded significant results thereby reducing man hours lost to accidents on the company’s premises.
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The Safety Manager of ABL, Emmanuel Agyekum, noted that as a people and community-oriented brand as well as a leader in the alcoholic beverage industry in Ghana, ABL’s commitment to ensuring that their staff worked within the highest safety standards was without question.