THE RELEVANCE OF SAFETY EDUCATION

SAFETY SIGNS Hello there, this is Goke Akingbade( your safety guide) here again to update you on health and safety issues. Today we will be discussing about safety signs.In the Health and Safety profession, we deal with the use of a lot of signs.A safety sign is defined as a sign providing information or instruction by means of a notice, sign board or colour used to create awareness about safety. Safety signs fall into four groups, namely: (1) Mandatory signs. (2) Prohibitory signs. (3) Hazard or Warning sign. (4) Safety information sign(Emergency Exit and First Aid). So let’s go through them one by one.                             (1) MANDATORY SIGN : This is a sign providing information about specific behaviour or action which must be complied with (‘e.g hard hat must be worn or safety boots must be worn’).       ...

SAFETY SIGNS Hello there, this is Goke Akingbade( your safety guide) here again to update you on health and safety issues. Today we will be discussing about safety signs.In the Health and Safety profession, we deal with the use of a lot of signs.A safety sign is defined as a sign providing information or instruction by means of a notice, sign board or colour used to create awareness about safety. Safety signs fall into four groups, namely: (1) Mandatory signs. (2) Prohibitory signs. (3) Hazard or Warning sign. (4) Safety information sign(Emergency Exit and First Aid). So let’s go through them one by one.                             (1) MANDATORY SIGN : This is a sign providing information about specific behaviour or action which must be complied with (‘e.g hard hat must be worn or safety boots must be worn’).       ...

THE RELEVANCE OF ERGONOMICS TO THE WORKPLACE. Hello there, this is Goke Akingbade (your Safety Guide) welcoming you into the year 2014.                 Today we will be discussing about a very important topic as regards workplace safety and health. This article is about Ergonomics. Ergonomics is a system of designing workstations, work practices and workflow to match the abilities of the worker. It is important that your organization consider implementing an ergonomics program which will reduce the risk factors that your employees might be exposed to as a result of the kind of work they do.                                                                                                      ...

Hello there, this is Goke Akingbade( your Safety guide). In this day and age we are in, it won't take you long below you see a guy or a lady driving his or her car and simultaneously making a phone call or receiving one while he or she is on the steering wheel. Others go to extent of texting while driving. We live in the era of android tablets, IPads. Smart phones and even Smart TV'S etc. We are constantly being bombarded with a lot of information which we assume we must respond to immediately. It's important that we choose not to neglect the fact that life ought to be lived one day at a time. The danger involved with giving one's attention to two or three task at a time or what is commonly referred to as multitasking is that it tends to gradually shift one's focus away from one's external environment. It is until an automobile accident occurs that the victim gets back to focus on the reality of the risk associated with multitasking. Multitasking in this...

WORKING SAFELY IN THE KITCHEN We are still in the festive season and we know that a lot of cooking or work is done in the kitchen  mostly in this period of the year. It is so easy to assume that rarely will accidents occur inside the kitchen but we need to be safety conscious while we prepare Fried rice or Jollof rice or fry or roast chicken or turkey. SAFETY TIPS THAT WILL ENSURE YOU & YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS WORK SAFELY IN THE KITCHEN . MAINTAIN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.                                                                                                                                  We say in safety that house keeping entails a lot of things. ...

NOISE (A SILENT DESTRUCTIVE HAZARD). Merry Christmas everyone, this is Goke Akingbade (your safety guide). Sorry for being away for a long time,It’s the demand of the industry that I work in. Part of what makes us human and alive is our sense of hearing. The ability to differentiate a particular keynote from another one and sound in general. We are all used to listening to music, radio via our head phones during leisure times or when we are stuck in traffic.                                                                                                 ...

BEHAVIOUR BASED SAFETY Behaviour Based Safety  (BBS) is the "application of science of behaviour change to real world problems".         The emphasis of Behaviour Based Safety is on what people do, it analyzes why they do it, and then applies a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what people do". For any organization to have an effective BBS program, all employees, from the CEO to the cleaner must be involved in the implementation of the BBS.                                                                                                    To achieve changes in behaviour, a change in policy, procedures and/or systems most assuredly will also need some change. Those changes cannot be done without...