AFARI MULTI SERVICES NIGERIA LIMITED operates with the realization that its activities may be hazardous to health of personnel d public as well as to the environment if not properly carried out in an appropriate manner.
Operations are therefore, planned and carried out in such a manner as to prevent injury, protect and maintain the environment. Safety habit is made to be the way of life. Accordingly, C.A.S.H.E.S. concerns are tenaciously pursued such as:
HEALTH
– Support and encourages all efforts by clients, government and other agencies aimed at achieving total health to its employees and members of the public that may be affected while executing their duties.
– Avoid injury at all times to its employees and members of the public especially in its area of operations.
– Maintain the services of the government-approved clinics with qualified doctors to ensure that workers and members of their families are properly cared for.
– Preserve the health of its employees through regular medical examination.
– Provide adequate first aid at appropriate times.
SAFETY/SECURITY
– Ensure strict adherence to and observance of company’s safety rules and regulations.
– Provide all necessary safety gadgets personal protective equipment (P.P.E) e.g. safety shoes, hard hats, coverall, hand gloves, aprons, life jackets, goggles, safety harness.
– Similarly, it takes great pains to make all employees recognize the need for self discipline, prevent theft or losses to the company, avoid injury to themselves and others and also ensure there is no damage to the environment, CASHES is management responsibility, in other words, everybody is responsible for CASHES.
– The management has therefore instituted regular auditing and periodic inspection of vehicles, equipment and other programmes as a continuous process for identifying and eliminating hazards, which are unsafe at the work place.
As incentive, parties and or cash rewards are made from time to time for man-hours worked without lost time injury.
ENVIRONMENT
AFARI MULTI SERVICES NIGERIA LIMITED, believe that adequate protection of environment is an integral part of our business therefore:
– Every effort is made to reduce to the barest minimum if not to eliminate totally any adverse impact on the environment in which we operate. Hence, the emphasis is laid on environmental friendly products.
– Adequate emergency provisions are made to clean up pollution if any and whenever they occur.
– Every company activity is planned and carried out in strict compliance with this policy.
– we ensure a healthy working environment through maintaining a good relationship with all our host communities and resolve to dialogue where misunderstanding exist. AFARI MULTI SERVICES NIGERIA LIMITED has a history of excellent safety records. This company believes that health; safety, security and environment protection is good business and gives full financial and moral support to seminars, workshops, meetings and training on health, safety, security and environmental programmes.
OUR CORE POLICY
Safety first, or no job, for any job that AFARI MULTI SERVICES NIGERIA LIMITED Executes, a safety officer must be on standby always he ensures that all safety rules and clothing (PPE) are obeyed or worn by all personnel.
In any of our sites, we liaise and obey the client safety rules, requirements and standards. Our policy is that safety is for all, we always mount a safety signboard at our site.
Safety can be defined as a measure taken individually or collectively to prevent hazard. It therefore becomes a policy that high standard of health, safety and welfare of all employees and all persons likely to be involved in our operation. It is only in achieving a long term strategy toward safety that the ultimate goal in terms of benefits to staff and to business can be achieved. It does not lie with safety officers but with every level in the organization.
Safety therefore is a line responsibility. Our goal remains that of accident elimination and zero accident targets is what we strive to achieve.
PROJECT SAFETYAND HEALTH POLICIES ANI RULES
(a) SELECTION OF PERSONNEL:
For any effective job to be done on site the employee needs to know what is expected of him, hence only trained persons are required to carry out specific jobs. The selective hiring of personnel I employees who can safely perform all assigned jobs is mandatory. This is based strictly on the physical job requirement and the hazards of related task. A craft personnel’s assigned to the job sites are required to be physically and mentally fit and capable of safety by performing the job.
Applicants are evaluated as to their craft skill and experience prior to screening and hired / placed according to their skill levels. Those applicants meeting these requirements must also complete the project safety operation as part of new line processing.
GENERAL APPROACH TO HSE:
It is utmost concern of the management that frequent accidents is reduced or eliminated, and this can only be achieved by the combined efforts of management and employees to adopt safe working practices at all times and to make themselves familiar with the relevant regulations and codes of practice which pinpoint the circumstances in which or a moment of thoughtlessness can lead to an accident. Breach of safe working practice by employee, which is viewed very seriously by management. The following violations will be grounds for immediate dismissal:
Disregard for project tie-off policy unauthorized removal of danger tag or lock Smoking in restricted area, fighting, consuming or bringing alcohol to the site, Non – compliance with personal protective equipment.
Accidents to person(s) resulting in injury however small as well as near misses, must be recorded in the site accident book and reported on the company’s prescribed supervisor’s accident investigation report form and should be forwarded to the company safety officer.
SAFETY COMMITTEE AND ORGANIZATION
The president is the chairman ‘of safety committee. Others include the site managers, safety officer and all line supervisors. The safety officer reports to the site manager who reports to the president. Meetings are held at regular intervals to appraise and review safety work. The proceeding are recorded in form of minutes.
THE FUNCTIONS OF SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES
- Investigation of complaints by employees relating to safety, health and welfare at work.
- Investigation of potential hazards and dangerous occurrences at the work place and examination of the causes of accidents.
- Carry out inspection
- Attend safety committee meetings
- Keep themselves informed of legal requirements relating to the safety of health and environment.
- Measure design to ensure effectiveness of safety methods by encouraging cooperation between management and employee.
- Make presentation to the management on matters arising from the above.
FIRST AID
First aid is an urgent treatment given to an injured person or any that suddenly fall sick before the arrival of a medical care. All employees shall have rapid access to first aid facilities. First aid boxes must be clearly under the responsibility of an appointed person. Employees must be made aware of first aid. The ‘first aider’ shall take charge of situation (e.g. call an ambulance) in case of serious accident or illness.
First Aid should be given in this order of priority, no matter what the injury may be
SAFETY: Preserve life – yours and the injured person, prevent the injury from getting worse.
Prompt recovery: apply the ABC of life and other necessary aid. Project the Unconscious: by putting them into a coma position. Prevent the injury from getting worse using the order priority, no matter how the injury may be.