LAWMA Trains Sweepers’ Supervisors

The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has organized a
three-day training program for highway sweepers’ supervisors in the
state, to equip them with basic health and safety skills needed for
optimal performance and safety at work.
According to the managing director of the agency, Dr. Muyiwa
Gbadegesin, LAWMA was totally committed to ensuring good welfare
and safety of highway sweepers, working relentlessly to ensure that
every nook and cranny of the metropolis was cleaned up.
He noted that the three-day training provided a platform for proper re-
orientation of the supervisors, who would impart the knowledge gained
to the sweepers under their watch, adding that this would go a long
way in implanting safety consciousness in the minds of the sweepers.
“The train-the-trainers program, apart from equipping our workers on
the highways with the right health and safety techniques, would also
pave way for improvement on the job being done, to ensure a cleaner
and livable Lagos,” Dr. Gbadegesin said.
He urged the participants to imbibe the culture of safety consciousness
in the course of their duties, stressing that most work-related accidents
were caused by ignorance and carelessness.
During his presentation, Mr. Adeyinka Adebiyi, Director of Safety
Training, Education and Skills Development, noted that the strategic
training was packaged in a way that would be easy for the supervisors
to transmit it to the sweepers under them.
He mentioned the dangers inherent in not following safety rules at
work and urged the participants to pay necessary attention to health
and safety tips in their assigned beats.

Different professional facilitators from relevant agencies also engaged
the supervisors on key topics as “Basic Safety and Health at Work
Place”, “Work Ethics and Environment”, and others.
Folashade Kadiri (Mrs.)
Assistant Director, Public Affairs
LAWMA
09/10/2019

PHOTO CAPTIONS

Pix 8460/8465: One of the Resource persons, Mr. Adeyinka Adebiyi, Director, Safety Training, Education and Skills Development, Lagos State Safety Commission, speaking to participants on basic safety at work place, during the 3-day capacity building for Highway/Streets sweepers’ supervisors, tagged Health and Safety, at Simpson Transfer Loading Station, Sura, Lagos, on Wednesday, 9^th October, 2019.

Pix 8472/8475: One of the Resource persons, Mr. Adeyinka Adebiyi entertaining questions from participants, during the 3-day capacity building for Highway/Streets sweepers’ supervisors, tagged Health and Safety, at Simpson Transfer Loading Station, Sura, Lagos, on Wednesday, 9^th October, 2019.

Pix 8433/8442: cross section of participants at the 3-day capacity building for highway/streets sweepers’ supervisors, tagged Health and Safety, at Simpson Transfer Loading Station, Sura, Lagos, on Wednesday, 9^th October, 2019.

Pix 8439: Mrs. Tawa Oyekanmi, HOD Highway Sanitation, Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA)(2^nd right); Mrs. Mojisola Adeleye, CSO. Market Sanitation (2^nd left); and the Resource persons, Mrs. Bola Adewunmi, AD. Advocacy Unit, LAWMA (L) & Mrs. Funsho Aina (L), at a 3-day capacity building for Highway/Streets sweepers’ supervisors, tagged Health and Safety, at Simpson Transfer Loading Station, Sura, Lagos, on Wednesday, 9^th October, 2019.