This is just as the government enjoined citizens to always take proactive safety measures in their personal, occupational, and business environments.
The state Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Olugbenga Oyerinde, gave this assurance at the management retreat held at the weekend at Poka, Epe, Lagos, with the theme: ‘Human Centric Safety Culture.’
A statement on Sunday quoted Oyerinde as saying that the over 20 million population of the state urgently calls for a proactive safety consciousness rather than a reactive one.
He advised that workers of the Lagos State Safety Commission and other safety workers must be strategically positioned to give quality service to the people of the state.
“It is going to be a service delivery per excellence for this year, and that is why, recently, the fire and rescue service equally had staff engagement, and all was in a view to having a change of dynamics for them to ensure there are better-improved outcomes for 2024.
“I believe safety is first and most important in all we do. We cannot in any way compromise safety. The commission deals in safety operations in different sectors of the economy, and I, therefore, challenge them as a member of the emergency responders’ family to take up the challenge of ensuring that loss of human lives is drastically reduced or totally eliminated in any accident or occurrence of Disaster.” he said
The Director-General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Mr Lanre Mojola, explained that the mandate of the commission to regulate safety-related issues prompted the convocation of the retreat, which, according to him, will enable Lagos safety workers to discharge their duties optimally.
She said the commission had scaled up its operations in the last four years and will continue to offer quality service delivery to ensure safety at all levels.
Mojola, who affirmed the commitment of the agency to expand its operations across the five divisions of the state, hinted at the launch of the proposed Occupational Safety Cadre by the state governor this year.
