The regional branch president of the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) Oba Olusegun Aderemi has tasked public and private organisations on the importance of cultivating safety and health practices.

OSHA is a professional and non-governmental safety and health association globally committed to promoting a culture of safety.

Aderemi, the Atayero of Aramoko Ekiti, spoke in Abuja during the group’s safety workshop, induction and investiture.

He invited the government to enter a partnership with OSHA to establish a body dedicated to safety matters.

According to him, this would aid job creation for young people, adding that Nigerian youths are being shortchanged by multinationals due to their lack of safety and health training and qualifications.

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The monarch reiterated the importance of proper safety etiquettes in the workplace, adding that safety is the right of all Nigerians.

According to him, the 1999 Constitution provides that states shall divert their policies towards ensuring that the health and welfare of all persons in employment is safeguarded and endangered.

Deputy Director National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Aromi Robert urged OSHA to partner the organisation in educating people at the grassroots on the importance of safety.

“The NYSC has been complying with safety measures which made it easy for the agency to manage thousands of corps members in their various orientation camps with little or no fatalities,” Robert added.