‘Nigerian workers must give premium to health, safety’

Vice-President, Industriall Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, has urged workers in the country to give priority to health and safety in their work places.   He said doing so was the best measure to enhance their productivity and measure up to standards required among workforce in the country.   Aremu spoke in Lagos at the […]

Vice-President, Industriall Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, has urged workers in the country to give priority to health and safety in their work places.  

He said doing so was the best measure to enhance their productivity and measure up to standards required among workforce in the country.  

Aremu spoke in Lagos at the world day for health and safety lecture, where he also enjoined employers of labour in Nigeria not to jettison measures that could promote health and safety of their workers.  

Nigeria, he added, would be a labour-friendly nation if more measures are taken to boost the safety of workers at work as well as reward them in line with labour laws and international statutes.  

In his paper, ‘Health and Safety Issues at Work: Developing Effective Trade Union Response’,  Micheal Fadipe, enjoined workers to be conscious of their rights and duties at their work places.

According to him, workers have the rights to refuse work that they believe is dangerous to their health and safety or any other worker in the workplaces.

He added, “To make progress in occupational safety and health within an organization, workers and their representatives have to cooperate with their employers.”