World Day for Safety and Health 2019 was differentiate on Friday May 03 , 2019 at interior level with a three-party panel discussion guard at Blue Sky Hotel in Addis Ababa . The Day , mark for the sixteenth and fifteenth clock time at World and national levels severally , has been themed : “ Safety and Health and the Future of Work . ” Representatives and panelists from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs ( MoLSA ) , Employers and Employees Unions took part in the tripartite gore discussion .
During the discussion Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association ( EHPEA ) Executive Director Tewodros Zewdie said Occupational Safety and Health is not only part and parcel of basic human rightfulness but it is critical to sustainable maturation and ontogeny . “ The number of lives lost in connection with occupational safety equipment is not insignificant . Problems go on with occupational safety have huge social and economic problems to employers and society , government and countries at heavy . The job is yet unaddressed . ”
Tewodros said it is often possible to avoid most occupational safe - related problems through taking precautionary measuring stick before they inflict tremendous losses . Thus , focusing on the ways and mean value of prevention , every role player in the sphere is expected to impart part through introduce a strong follow up weapons platform on attitudinal , procedural and measure management .
The Executive Director accentuate on the indispensability of decent cognizance creation natural process through strengthening Employer - Government - Labour tripartite relationship .
indicate that the concerted effort made by the Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association ( EHPEA ) has made modest contribution to the national development drive , the sector has create numerous opportunities for small and medium - sized endeavor across the country .
After the insertion of EHPEA Code of Practice – professional ethics – some 12 geezerhood ago , impressive accomplishment have been see with esteem to boosting the productiveness and profitability of farm in the sector . With a view to applying the Code , EHPEA has been make water relentless effort towards furthering occupational safety and related matter through capacity building trainings .
On the occasion , MoLSA Industry Occupational Safety and Health Team Leader Mesfin Yilma spotlight that uttermost attention has to be commit to occupational safety and labour health in higher Education Department researches so that strides could be made in the surface area .
