The IOSH conference will discuss and debate key issues that face the business community regionally and globally and how the application of good safety and health principles at work will bring sustainable competitive advantage. The title of the event, “A brighter, safer future – for workers, for businesses, for West Africa” highlights the benefits that workplace safety and health can create for individuals, communities and society.
Participants will be able to take part in debates and listen
to keynote presentations and panel discussions involving, among many others,
the World Health Organization, the United Nations Global Compact, the Lagos
State Safety Commission, the Ghana Health Service and the Chartered Institute
of Personnel Management of Nigeria.
IOSH Conference: Topics to be discussed include:
- health and safety in the healthcare sector
- health and safety in educational settings
- the impact on different industries of the forthcoming occupational safety and health bill in Ghana
- the leadership role of women in the occupational safety and health profession.
The full programme and registration details are available at
www.iosh.com/wac
The online conference, which is free to join, takes place on
16 and 17 September. It follows a hugely successful event last year, attended
by over 900 representatives of government departments, non-governmental
organizations, businesses, industry and academia.
Within months, IOSH inaugurated its West Africa Division,
whose members include safety and health professionals working in Ghana,
Nigeria, and West African countries. It is IOSH’s first network on the
continent of Africa and is continuing to attract new members and the
possibility of potential collaborations with other institutions based in the
region.
The conference will demonstrate the increasingly critical
role of occupational safety and health professionals in business planning for
all kinds of organisations, whether they are in the private, public or
voluntary sector, no matter what their size, from micro-organization to
multinational. In particular, they have a central role to play in recovering
economically from the Covid-19 pandemic.
This recovery is not merely tactical and operational but an
imperative for long-term sustainability.
One key message of the conference will be that the
protection of workers must be an essential part of business planning if
organizations are to survive and prosper in the future. Governments, businesses
and organizations will be urged to plan with this consideration in mind.
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