Islamabad. An international workshop on occupational safety and health training was conducted by National University of Sciences and Technology on Tuesday.
The two-day workshop aimed at familiarising the audience with occupational hazards, safety training and safety management. It identified problems with ensuring safety in the construction industry, suggested remedial measures and created awareness among participants. The ideas of ‘zero accident techniques’ and ‘best practices to ensure zero accidents on construction sites’ were discussed during the workshop.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 23rd, 2012.
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I am specialized in quality assurance in which safety is of one of its three major elements. I can understand the importance of safety in any sphere of life. It offen appears in media that weak shuttering resulted in various incidents. This unauthorised practice must be curbed at any cost to avoid such occurrences in future. This is only possible if qualified civil engineer is deputed at site and made responsible to ensure that specified methods for lintel construction have been adopted.