By: Joseph Jones

Workers! Ill health and disability can have a major impact on our lives, becoming physically paralysed in some instances. Hear this: You were once active, a healthy person but you then became deeply depressed. Your strength, courage, power drained away. You felt destroyed. This experience reminds me that none of us have complete control over health and safety, but you can create an ‘Awareness’ that can take reasonable measures to reduce the risks of ill health and added safety? Let us consider  some  principles that promote good health. I am wondering if you realise that I am using a lubricant, the oil of helpfulness to make our lives  much easier at the workplace, because I believe nearly every day we encounter problems; some of us as workers carry unbearable burdens and long for a word of advice. Well the oil will lubricate, sympathetic words with education.Workers! We need encouragement. Just one drop of it could restore hope. Still some of us are mean and hardened. Workers again, lend a listening ear. Sometimes I do get a bit frustrated concerning the behaviour at the workplaces. I can only hope from my writing on the above subject that you are appreciating the fact to avoid taking needless risks on the work. At this moment a thrill is not worth a life of disability. Please insist that you receive the proper health and safety gears. Before I close, I want you to keep at it. Be a detective – observe your surrounding at your workplace, fexamine accident records, near-miss records and sickness figures and let me leave this last one with you. Occupational Safety and Health as I said many times before, it is:(1) The promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupation.  (2) The prevention among workers of departures from ill health caused by working conditions.(3) The protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health.(4) The placing of and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to physical and mental needs.Hello! Looking at these definitions, I hereby ask: Is it not worth considering? Yes of course because you will be physically and mentally fit at work.*NOTE WELL* Workers, I must shut up now and encourage you to please focus on positive thoughts. Wisdom is invaluable; without it, we would make one foolish mistake after another.Thank you