Over 150 death recorded in onstruction accidents in 2024, says NSITF boss Faleye

— Urges prevention and protection

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA – THE Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye, connected Wednesday, lamented that much than 150 radical successful the state mislaid their lives successful operation site-related accidents successful 2024.

Faleye disclosed portion delivering his keynote code arsenic the peculiar impermanent of honour astatine the 69th Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Construction Industry successful Abuja.

According to him: “It is simply a sobering world that Nigeria experiences an mean of 50-70 large operation accidents annually, including gathering collapses, falls, and machinery-related injuries. The Nigerian Safety Commission reported implicit 150 fatalities linked to operation tract accidents past twelvemonth alone.”

The NSITF brag said specified incidents item the information of the saying that prevention is amended than cure.

He proffered measures towards prevention saying “Strengthening wellness and information protocols is crucial.“

Continuing, helium said: “This involves rigorous information audits, compliance with standards, and continuous capableness gathering to support workers astatine each times. A proactive information culture–where risks are identified and mitigated early–is indispensable to preventing tragedies earlier they occur.”

He advocated corporate effort successful embedding information and payment into each project. He said that would foster enactment “environments wherever workers tin run confidently and securely.”

The NSITF MD urged operation companies to collaborate with NSITF’s Health, Safety and Environment squad connected audits, capableness gathering and different interventions, expressing the organisation’s committedness to spouse each consenting employers successful providing some carnal and societal protections to each Nigerian workers.

He further stated that the “commitment to information and well-being is foundational. It is besides a beardown constituent of sustainable manufacture growth.

“NSITF remains dedicated to supporting information initiatives done regular audits, certification processes, and enforcement of standards due to the fact that a resilient operation manufacture depends connected a healthy, protected workforce.”

The FOCI 69th AGM was attended by starring players successful the operation manufacture successful Nigeria, authorities officials, and different stakeholders.

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