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ECOWAS through the Department of Infrastructure, Energy & Digitalization is organizing a regional sensitization workshop on the implementation of the new ECOWAS Road Safety Policy, Action Plan and Charter in Accra, Ghana from 8 – 9 September 2022. The new ECOWAS Road Safety Policy, Charter, Action Plan, and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Framework prepared by the Directorate of Transport Infrastructure Department under its Transport Governance for West Africa Technical Assistance Project, was approved at the 60th summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government on 12th December 2021. The framework documents will provide a harmonized platform for ECOWAS…

Come Thursday, 15th September 2022 at 10:00am, at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) Hall, University of Ghana, ED Consult Limited and sponsors hold the maiden Safety Profit Conference 22 to foster experience and knowledge sharing by key note speakers from industries about the collective responsibility for managing risks and the importance of health and safety. All persons are cordially invited. The conference which is dabbed “Risk, HSSE, Sustainability and Well-Being, our collective responsibility”  would have some amazing speakers and industry personalities such as Craig Foyle (Director, Foyle Safety and Management Limited & Past President, IOSH 2017-2018),…

Three health workers in Senegal have been arrested after a pregnant woman and her baby died allegedly because of a botched Caesarean section. A health union official said a gynaecologist, an anaesthetist and a nurse were being questioned over potential negligence. Senegalese media say the heavily pregnant woman died after losing a lot of blood. Her baby died as a result of injuries sustained during the operation. The Senegalese Association of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (ASGO) defended the medical team and criticised the arrests as “wrongful”. In a statement quoted by the AFP news agency, it said the team had taken…

A mother who said her son died after attempting a viral challenge has issued a warning to parents and teenagers about the danger of the Tik Tok trend. Lauryn Keating said she found her 14-year-old son Leon Brown unresponsive in his room at their home in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire on 25 August. She later learned that he had tried the “blackout challenge”, a viral trend that is believed to have caused the brain injury which led to the death of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee last month. In the latest iteration of a dangerous dare, children film themselves holding their breath until they fall unconscious due…

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and the Ghana Optometric Association (GOA) have begun a nationwide exercise to implement phase two of eye test reform. The exercise began on September 1, 2022. The exercise is in compliance with Regulation 29(5) of the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 (LI 2180) and reinforcing its mandate to promote road safety in the country. The Regulation provides that an applicant for driver’s licence must submit to the Licensing Authority, a visual assessment results certified by a registered ophthalmologist or optometrist. Phase one  of the reform, begun on June 1, this year for categories A,…

Rescue operations have ended in the northern Nigerian city of Kano where a three-storey building collapsed in a market – trapping a number of people. Emergency officials say at least one person was found dead in the rubble while seven others were wounded and taken to hospital for treatment – most of them with “minor” injuries. But Nigeria’s National Emergency Agency (Nema) says one of those wounded has multiple fractures and is still in hospital. ”We have finished searching through the rubble. We believe there are no more people trapped. So, the rescue operation has ended,” an official of the…

While the main goal of every health and safety program is to prevent injuries and accidents, the unfortunate reality is that they still happen in many workplaces. In 2021 alone, Ontario’s Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) reported over 220,000 injury claims. Workplace incidents and accidents are highly stressful events for everyone involved, especially if they result in a critical injury or fatality. The overwhelming nature of these events often leads to confusion about what steps to take after an event and who is responsible for carrying them out. The purpose of this guide is to help you understand what to…

Police have arrested a level 200 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Elivis Nsiah, for threatening to stab some students of the university. The police made the arrest as part of investigations into the disturbances recorded at KNUST recently. The suspect is alleged to have threatened to stab five students of the Continental Hall of the university and kill one other student of the same hall to pacify what he referred to as “the gods.” The accused person was put before the Asokore Mampong Magistrate Court and has been remanded into police custody to reappear…

The Asokore Mampong Magistrate Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of 61 persons suspected to be involved in last week’s violence on the campus of KNUST. This comes after two people, arrested in connection with the incident, were denied bail by the court. Three suspects are currently in Police custody. The two suspects put before the Court include a past student of KNUST, Daniel Osei Bonsu, 25 years, who is a Mechanical Engineer and Francis Tutu Atuahene, a second-year student. Head of Legal and Prosecution, Ashanti Regional Police Command, ACP Kofi Blagodzie, charged the suspects with conspiracy to commit crime, rioting with offensive weapons, causing…

The wife of veteran Hiplife artiste Reggie Rockstone and his daughter were involved in an accident on Wednesday. In a video shared on Reggie Rockstone’s Instagram page, Zilla Limann and her daughter, Zuzu, were captured on camera sitting in their car parked on the side of the road. She was reprimanding her daughter for playing with a taser on one of their usual morning recordings. While having the conversation, their car was hit from behind, causing Zilla to spill her drink on her shirt. The mother and daughter were visibly shaken following the incident with Zuzu constantly checking on her…