Seaweld Engineering marks Occupational Health and Safety Day
The Chief Executive Officer of Seaweld Engineering Limited, Mr. Alfred Fafali Adagbedu, has urged employers and employees to make Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) one of their topmost priority and shared responsibility.
"Today, Seaweld joins the world to mark occupational safety and health culture which is the employees' right to a safe and healthy working environment. With over 185 employees both onshore and offshore, and worked more than 1,605 days without Lost Time Injuries (LTI) Seaweld Enginerring as an indigenous Ghanaian Company deems it right to join the rest of the world to say accidents are avoidable with strong safety culture, and to make employers recognise that health and safety is not a choice but a responsibility," he said.
He said this when the Company joined the world to mark the day with a health walk through various principal streets in Sekondi/Takoradi to remind all, from heavy industries to the trader in the market, that to keep the wheel of industry and commerce in motion, there is the need to ensure safety at the work place.
Ensuring high safety standard, he stated, does not only help in saving cost and ensuring good working environment, but also enables companies with high standard to have competitive edge over those with low regard for health and safety.
"It is sad that companies in our world today have become more of a death trap to their workers, combined with lack of commitment from management to implement health and safety standards," he said.
Mr Adagbedu said since the discovery of hydrocarbon reserves off the coast of Ghana, in addition to other resources that employ high risk during exploration, development and production, there is the need to ensure high safety standards.
For the indigenous Ghanaian establishments to support and actively partake in the extractive sector including oil and gas, there is the need to join in building a culture of safety.
Seaweld he said provides services to International Oil Companies (IOCs) over the years in the areas of crew for the rigs, scaffolding, meet and greet, vessel repairs, welding and fabrication, tank cleaning, warehousing, hospitality and logistical support.
"Seaweld strived through various challenges to become a global brand in its specialized area of service with clients such as Seadrill, Transocean, Ocean Rig, Alpha Offshore Drilling, Kosmos Energy, Lukoil, Tullow, HESS, Halliburton, Total, Shell, ENI, MODEC and Aker solutions to mention a few," he said.
Seaweld currently operates in Nine African Countries, two European countries and the United States of America, and hopes to expand to other countries in the near future.
