Workers (People), our struggle is long and bitter but it is a noble one, and don’t forget this one: ‘A people without knowledge of their past is like a tree without roots.’ This is strong language and so what I am saying is that it takes the St.Kitts-Nevis Trades & Labour Union to make your workplace a better place to be.

Now, making employers and employees aware to the address these new risks and  to create a safe and healthy working environment and build positive and constructive preventative culture in the organisation that will boosts the effectiveness and protective the health and well-being  of workers and increases productivity.

I will move on. Why do people risk injury to stay or get physically fit? The answer is because they see some benefit like feeling better, maintaining the body structure they want or living longer. They are willing to endure sweat and tears it may take to get that heart pumping and those weak muscles working.

Hear this as well: When we love others and we listen to them, sure it takes time and effort to focus on them and hear what they’re saying but when we do, it shows genuine concern and respect.

Before I close, let me say something about our skin and what chemicals can do to it.

Chemicals damage the skin and cause inflammable…known as dermatitis. In that instance, the skin becomes red, blistered, itchy or flaky (peeled off). Chemicals that damage the skin directly are called primary irritants. They dissolve through the outer protective barrier and destroy the layer underneath.

In St.Kitts-Nevis, workers are in contact with large numbers of these chemicals/strong acids (example: sulfuric acid), strong alkaline (a substance that combines with acid and neutralises it form a salt) such as caustic soda.

All forms of mineral oil including diesel, lubricating and fuel oils solvent, thinners and degreasers such as paraffin, turpentine and petroleum products, tars, pitch and other tar coal products including phenols (used as an antiseptic) are part of the list also. Workers! The list is almost endless is relates to chemicals used in St.Kitts-Nevis which can cause dermatitis, and this is the kind of effects all of us are exposed to the substance to the substance as appears only where the chemical touches the skin and usually disappears when contact with the primary irritant ceases whether by changing the chemical to a safer one or by the wearing of suitable gloves.

Hello! There is another kind of dermatitis known as contact dermatitis which is a type of allergic recation just like asthma or hay fever.

*Note Well*-Life’s trials should make us better NOT bitter.

Until next week.