The physical conditions that obtain on premises housing government ministries and other state-run departments will come under closer scrutiny as part of a broader initiative being undertaken by the Ministry of Social Protection to bring workplaces in line with national safety and health requirements, Minister in that Ministry Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.
Having attracted considerable public attention for her robust pronouncements on the need for employers to be in compliance with the law in a range of areas, including those of safety and health in the workplace, Broomes told Stabroek Business in an interview on Tuesday that she had dispatched a letter to ministers and permanent secretaries reminding them of their ministries’ obligations under the law and requesting that they establish Occupa-tional Safety and Health (OSH) committees in their ministries.
It is widely believed that few if any government ministries currently have such committees and the minister said that programmes currently being run by her ministry could address training for employees identified to sit on OSH committees. “Our concern is with
