Nssa to hold workshop on Vision Zero

OVER 300 engineers will converge in Kwekwe next week for a three-day workshop on safety and health at work.

The event is organised by the National Social Security Authority (Nssa).

Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, July Moyo, is expected to officially open the workshop that will be held from 20 to 22 March. The workshop, which has run annually for over 20 years, is held in partial fulfilment of Nssa’s mandate of promoting occupational safety and health.

It will run under the theme “Promoting an Occupational Safety and Health Culture Through Vision Zero”.

An international flavour will spice up the workshop through presentations by speakers from Germany, who will speak on “The Vision Zero journey and sustainability of a safe and healthy workplace”.

Nssa’s deputy director responsible for marketing and communication, Tendai Mutseyekwa, said the theme was conceived to inculcate a strong culture of accident prevention in the workplace and for employers and employees to appreciate that it is possible to achieve zero occupational accidents, injuries and diseases.

“The workshop will also provide a forum for sharing engineering intervention measures aimed at eliminating work-related accidents and illnesses, as well as environmental damage.

"It will foster the Vision Zero philosophy through engineering, as well as inculcate a culture of continuous improvement among all stakeholders,” Mutseyekwa said.

Past workshops have facilitated the creation of engineering clusters across the country, which enable engineers to gather at identified high-risk plants, machinery or equipment to proffer safer ways of managing them.

“Such industrial visits culminate in reports being made to the visited companies as part of contributing to their safety and health improvement plan,” he said. — Staff Writer.