OCCUPATIONAL safety or health is a sector that has often been overlooked with impunity.Companies and other business entities have been allowed to operate with no regard paid to whether the premises are safe not only for business but for the workers.In Lusaka yesterday, in the heavy industrial area, three fuel tankers caught fire midmorning, leaving three workers with severe burns.As the tankers blew up, one after the other, the workers from the different companies operating in the yard, scampered for safety.The billowing dark cloud of smoke could be seen from as far as the city centre, almost five kilometres away.It is just by luck that only three people were burnt considering that there are other business entities that operate from the premises where the tankers were parked.The inferno could also have spread to nearby companies causing a major disaster.Credit must be given to the Lusaka City Council Fire Brigade which responded within minutes of the […]
OBSERVE SAFETY
