One of the country’s leading occupational safety and health specialists has told Stabroek Business that government and the private sector must share the blame for the fact that insofar as local safety and health standards are concerned, “as a country, we are in a bad way”.
Director of Optimum Safety Solutions Dale Beresford said that while well over a decade has gone by since the passage of the 1997 Occupational Safety and Health Act in the National Assembly, the failure of the government to enforce the provisions of the legislation has resulted in an unacceptable indifference to safety and health issues on the part of the private sector.
“At a very basic level we are not even able to ensure that
