By: Joseph Jones.

Workers! As I have mentioned before, the implementation of preventative measures to improve Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) present both costs and benefits to the employer worker and government.
I am saying that there is the need for all concerned to share this responsibility. We the worker has an added responsibility to be vigilant in the area of safety and health at the workplace and to adhere to the requirements.
To this end, I should or hope to see or hear of some safety committees in work places and I am encouraging you the workers to have a more active role in the functioning of these committees.
Workers! These articles explain what it means to be safe and healthy. What it means to strip off the old way of doing things at the workplaces, and why do so is urgent.
Hear this; there is danger in every job. Do you agree? And so it is the duty of each of us to do all that can be done to safe guard ourselves. My concern is to bring to the notice of all of us the many dangerous practices.
I will now give you a few useful tips on safe procedures and also encourage you to offer suggestions that will make for greater safety and health.
Let me make it abundantly clear If you don’t know the safe way to do a job then stop and find out. At times it is good to listen; safe workers wear safe clothes and the job is only as safe as we make it. One accident can ruin your whole life.
I said this already, “It may not be your fault, but still be your funeral. The next time to be careful is NOW. And as a reminder never sleep at your work or you may ever wake up again.
In closing, we in St. Kitts and Nevis speak and become alarmed at the high number of vehicular accidents some of which we know about because of the media coverage accorded them but we pay little or no attention to those workers whose bodies are slowly and painfully dying from the results of the hazards of the workplace and whose cause of deaths never revealed publicly because the press is not called in when a worker dies after being exposed overtime to hazardous materials for, example, Dust. I can only repeat the calls to be “AWARE.

I thank you.
NB – Workers I love you all. Although words cannot easily define the quality of love, the Bible describes the way it is expressed; we read that love is “patient and kind” also it rejoices with the truth” And it bears all things, endures all things, hopes all things, believe all things.
I have a feeling of deep and a sincere concern for all the workers of St. Kitts and Nevis when it come to this subject Occupational Safety and Health (OSH0. Until next week.