“Where prevention activities fail, employers are reimbursed at the approved rates the healthcare claims, thus relieving employers of the heavy burden of solely taking care of injured workers.” Nigeria
Indeed, the need for workers to be more careful in the workplace is also a message relevant stakeholders often pass to workers and their representatives. However, the need to be careful also began to lead to loss of productivity, which inherently hurt not only employers but also national economies.
He added: “The propose amendment would include among others survivors’ benefit, death grant, invalidity benefit or grant, disability benefit or grant, aged benefit or grant, unemployment benefit or grant, child-maternal benefit or grant, and such other benefits as may be approved from time to time by the Board.”
Somefun said that a stable workforce thrives where industrial peace and harmony were promoted, towards economic development and enhanced Human Development Index . “Employers are expected to promptly notify the Fund as soon as any accident, death or disease of an employee occurs. This is to enable the Fund to carry out an objective investigation to identify the causes of the accident and to know exactly what, how and where to provide and apply intervention measures. Losing credible evidence due to delays in reporting accidents will result in the misapplication of any intervention measures by the Fund,” he explained.
“Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems Audit has long been established as and remains a veritable tool that drives the contemporary towards a preventative safety and healthy culture.
For the minister, the SWIP yearly award is a step in the right direction, saying the challenges and gaps noticed in the process had been noted for greater improvement in the nearest future.
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