Chamber of Mines safety officers undergo training
Health and safety officers of the Ghana Chamber of Mines are undergoing training on the reviewed first aid procedures that should be applied in the industry.
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The five-day training programme, being run by the St John’s Ambulance Ghana, is expected to build the capacities of the participants in the latest first aid procedures that are recommended by first aiders worldwide that have been included in the 10th edition of the local first aid manual.
In his remarks to open the workshop in Accra yesterday, the Chief Executive Officer of St John’s Ambulance Ghana, Mr Kwame Apedzi, said similar workshops would be organised for all stakeholder institutions nationwide to safeguard the health and safety of the national human resource.
He said the Chamber of Mines continued to be exemplary in promoting the safety and health of its employees and appealed to all employers to emulate the example of the chamber.
According to him, the chamber did that by coordinating the activities of its health and safety officers.
Test of capacity and readiness
Mr Apedzi said the Chamber of Mines also organised zonal first aid competitions in the form of simulation exercises for its members to test their capacity and readiness to follow laid down and internationally acceptable first aid procedures at their places of work.
“I take this opportunity to congratulate Golden Star Wassa Mines on winning the 2015 national first aid competition for miners. St John’s Ambulance judged the competition and we were very impressed by the level of knowledge and capacity exhibited by Golden Star Wassa Mine health and safety officials and workers,” he said.
Partnerships
Mr Apedzi said St John’s Ambulance would continue to advocate for partnership with all sectors of the economy to promote first aid as a way of ensuring a safe and healthy workforce or human resource required for national development.
On first aid boxes, he said St John’s Ambulance would continue to call for first aid training and the provision of first aid boxes for employees, in compliance with Section 28 of the Factories and Shops Act of 1970, Act 328.
The act states that all offices, factories and shops should have first aid boxes and first aiders at post.
