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Occupational Health and safety in the workplace is taking center stage at a two-day workshop organized by the Ministry of Housing and Lands for public servants which opened at the ministry\u2019s conference room on Monday, March 18th<\/sup>, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The workshop is being held at the conference\nroom of the ministry and will primarily look at the occupational and health\nsafety act 2017. Participants are drawn from the Ministry of Housing, Ministry\nof Transport and Works and the Housing and Land Development Corporation (HLDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Honourable Minister of Housing, Montgomery Daniel in his\nbrief remarks at the opening told participants that it was important that\ntraining takes place at every level be it in the public service or within\nindustrial establishments. He said the need for training could not be over\nemphasized as an assurance that there is knowledge and understanding of work. \u201cHealth\nand safety is quite an important aspect of our own task,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stressing the point that accidents do happen on\nthe job which may not be the fault of the manager, he said as managers, it is\nimportant that they ensure that the basic requirements and safety are met at\nall times at the workplace. “We cannot and we must not be seen as the ones\nslipping up. We must ensure that there are basic things in place on the work\nsite or environment to ensure that the work environment is safe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister Daniel said that the Occupational and\nSafety Act is very important. \u201cIt is important to all of us, it is important\nfor the good of the workplace and what we do will have bearing on our attitude\nand responsibilities at the work place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The workshop\u2019s facilitators are Kesron Walters and Shernelle Hadaway.\n\n\n\n\n\n\ufffd*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Occupational Health and safety in the workplace is taking center stage at a two-day workshop organized by the Ministry of Housing and Lands for public servants which opened at the ministry\u2019s conference room on Monday, March 18th, 2019. The workshop is being held at the conference room of the ministry and will primarily look at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n