The National Safety Advocacy Campaign (NASACA) has designated April as National Safety Advocacy Month.
According to the NGO, the country has experienced a variety of disasters, including fires and floods, among others.
”The country has in recent times got to deal with any form of disaster without single win. We’ve ever suffered life/investment to fire outbreaks, flooding, road accidents, change in weather, dam spillage, structural collapse, food poisoning, diseases, etc. All that, in fact, are a result of safety ills.
This wise, we dearly admonish everyone, from the president to the last visitor to be safety conscious regardless whatsoever thing they may find themselves doing each moment. This way, we preserve LIFE and PROPERTY.
With us at NASACA, apart from the one not born of a woman, everyone else has a duty in SAFETY.
In line with the Safety Month “23, we’ll be embarking on a project termed *NASACA Walk 1.2.0 Days for SAFETY in April*.
We’re as well slated to petition few outfits on safety-issues within the period.”
Read the full statement below
*Safety Month ’23: safety sense for sustainable development*
The world would be observing Safety and Health at Work come April 28. Just as the past year, *NASACA* declares the entire month of April, *Safety Month “23* and call on all to have a *Safety Sense for Sustainable Development* in everyday life.
The country has in recent times got to deal with any form of disaster without single win. We’ve ever suffered life/investment to fire outbreaks, flooding, road accidents, change in weather, dam spillage, structural collapse, food poisoning, diseases, etc. All that, in fact, are a result of safety ills.
This wise, we dearly admonish everyone, from the president to the last visitor to be safety conscious regardless whatsoever thing they may find themselves doing each moment. This way, we preserve LIFE and PROPERTY.
With us at NASACA, apart from the one not born of a woman, everyone else has a duty in SAFETY.
In line with the Safety Month “23, we’ll be embarking on a project termed *NASACA Walk 1.2.0 Days for SAFETY in April*.
We’re as well slated to petition few outfits on safety-issues within the period.
Fact sheets:
*The Ghanaian capital of Accra is not saying goodbye to flooding and their gory effect anytime soon. The Weija/Kasoa enclave pose to be most vulnerable in all known zones.
Several homes in such places are no longer good for habitation yet property continue to erect there.
In fact, the enclave is yet to suffer worst floods.
The Odaw belt, Graphic Road/J. A. Busia Avenue include the danger zones.
Demolition/tiling/filling have been the known approaches. In any case, our society is yet to reach any tangible result.
We blame this to poor planning and failure in terms of generational thinking.
The most scary thing is how other communities “blind mindedly” do the very awkward things that resulted in such unwanted circumstances.
NASACA has suggested stilt housing as part of the possible solutions.
*The nation has in the past years lost more than 2,000 lives through road crashes annually, and in 2022, the figure hovered around 3,000.
This happens to be reported and recoded cases.
NASACA suggests limitation of speed limits and pedestrian centered safety education as part of the possible solutions.
*If nose mask was to be rocked in the fight against any complications, stench, dust and gases should not be ruled out. They really must be reasons to continuously wear mask in Ghanaian cities. Stench is said to be one of the leading causes of death in Africa, yet human activities keep forming up these things on daily basis without care.
NASACA suggests proficient waste handling.
*Sound pollution and others:
At the mention of stench, pollution comes to play. Nuisance sound creates noise pollution and the end result is said to go a long way to lost of life (death).
NASACA suggests the Environmental Protection Agency teams up with the health sector to control excessive sound in the public space.
*Ghana after the Twin Disaster of Flood and Fire on June 3, 2015 said Never Again. With NASACA, Ghana is not ready for the Never Again slogan.
NASACA suggests staple safety message at gatherings.
*We wonder why the spillage of Bagre and Weija dams be a habitual headache?
*We pose to prosecute motorists over indiscipline stopping/parking yet allow hawkers to operate within driving perimeters.
*We ask both workers and employers to work towards secured welfare for members as this go a long way to benefit not only internal people but externally and government becomes the happiest.
*If Ghana remains a member of the United Nations, then we have many more questions to answer per the birth of the Sustainable Development Goals, considering our approach in managing affairs.
As we observe SAFETY in everyday life, we envision a cooperated campaign for a peace of mind in society.
For the safety of a people is the health and wealth of same. So do have your SAY and DEED for SAFETY.
*Don’t wait till it occurs*
…sign…
Daniel Asuku
The Safety Advocate and president of *NASACA*
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
