The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) on Thursday said that it was totally committed to ensuring good welfare and safety of highway sweepers and their supervisors working relentlessly to keep every nook and cranny of the metropolis clean.
The Managing Director ( MD) of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, gave the assurance during the opening of a three-day training for the supervisors of highway sweepers in Lagos on Thursday.
The MD said that the training was organised for the highway supervisors to equip them with basic health and safety skills for optimal performance and how to ensure safety at work.
He said that the three-day training would provide a platform for proper re-orientation of the supervisors, who would later impart the knowledge gained on the sweepers under their watch.
Gbadegesin said that the training would go a long way in implanting safety consciousness in the minds of the sweepers.
“The train-the-trainers ( TOT) programme will equip our workers on the highways with the right health and safety techniques.
“It will also pave the way for improvement on the job being done, to ensure a cleaner and livable Lagos,” he said.
Gbadegesin urged the participants to imbibe the culture of safety consciousness in the course of their duties, stressing that most work-related accidents were caused by ignorance and carelessness.
During his presentation, Mr Adeyinka Adebiyi, the Director of Safety Training, Education and Skills Development of LAWMA, said that the training was packaged to make it easy for supervisors to transmit knowledge to sweepers.
Adebiyi mentioned the dangers inherent in not following safety rules at work and urged the participants to pay necessary attention to health and safety tips in their assigned beats.
The different professional facilitators from relevant agencies also engaged the supervisors in key topics such as: “Basic Safety and Health at Work Place”, and “Work Ethics and Environment.”
