Staff of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Rivers Port, have been tasked to be guided by safety practices to achieve accident free operations.
They have also been tasked to see safety as a necessary tool both at workplace or at home.
The Port Manager, Rivers Port Complex, Port Harcourt, Mrs Carolyn Akum Ufere, made the call during a two-day Health and Safety sensitisation and Enlightenment programme held in Port Harcourt, recently.
Ufere enjoined all to be safety conscious as it is not only about truck drivers, but the business of all Nigerian Ports Authority staff, their visitors and stakeholders.
She also advised transport business owners and drivers to be safety conscious as well, saying that it is a necessary tool while eating, sleeping, walking on the street or even working at the Port platform.
The Rivers Port manager noted that the port has many corporate tenants from different backgrounds such that there is the need to write and paste safety caution signs in different languages.
This, she said, is to carry everybody along on daily basis on safety, especially for all Port visitors or users, and however thanked the organisers of the programme for a job well done.
The workshop attracted captains of industries, safety managers and representatives of terminal operators drawn from BUA Group, Ports and Terminal Operators Limited (PTOL), and other port stakeholders including transporters.
In a keynote address, the Guest Speaker, Engr. Joseph Otene Ejeh of the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) department urged workers to be conscious of safety guidelines, very careful at workplace while carrying out any assignment in the port to avert accident or incident in the port to maintain accident free operations.
Ejeh charged staff of the authority to strive to avoid accidents at work place, be conscious of safety at home against fire, and also thanked the management for a successful programme.
Highlight of the programme was a safety procession led by Engr Ejeh, accompanied by the Red Cross band of Port Harcourt.