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DAILY HERITAGE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017<br />
Wake up, regulatory bodies!<br />
WITH JUST about three weeks to the<br />
end of the year 2017, it appears the<br />
country’s fear of being hit with fire disasters<br />
still lingers around following reports<br />
that regulatory bodies, filling<br />
station owners and some customers are<br />
completely ignorant about safety measure.<br />
This is indeed worrying because we<br />
are in a country where disasters are rampant<br />
and almost every now and then the<br />
issue of fire disasters are being recorded.<br />
Some experts are predicting doom<br />
should proper and appropriate measures<br />
are not adopted with immediate effect to<br />
arrest this worrisome development.<br />
The Director of Public Protection<br />
Centre, Mr Philip Nana Asante, is predicting<br />
more fire disasters in the country,<br />
if institutions do not include safety measures<br />
in their day-to-day administration.<br />
He says the failure has led to both<br />
manufacturing and processing companies<br />
not having any direct policy to<br />
“guard them to adopt safety, health and<br />
environmental issues seriously to help<br />
protect employers, employees, and road<br />
users among others.”<br />
What is so devastating about his presentation<br />
is that regulatory bodies, owners<br />
and workers of filling stations as well as<br />
customers are ignorant about some<br />
safety measures that have to be present<br />
before granting permit to operate or<br />
being allowed to operate in an environment.<br />
The director of PB Protection Centre<br />
went on to say that most workers at both<br />
gas and petrol filling stations have no<br />
idea what the caution stickers on their<br />
stations actually mean let alone knowing<br />
what is called assembling point where<br />
workers converge during an emergency<br />
situation.<br />
Following recent events such as the<br />
Atomic Junction fire disaster in which<br />
lives were lost, it is only appropriate that<br />
government institutions mandated to enforce<br />
safety measures in public places, including<br />
various petrol and gas filling<br />
stations, are reminded and put on their<br />
toes.<br />
As it stands now, they have failed the<br />
country , hence the rampant fire disasters<br />
and so the government needs to act by<br />
way of ensuring that risk-prone areas are<br />
monitored and precautionary measures<br />
in place with the law enforcement agencies<br />
or regulatory bodies upping their efforts.<br />
The DAILY HERITAGE is of<br />
the view that state institution, especially<br />
the Ghana National Fire Service, the police<br />
and other agencies that are to ensure<br />
that safety measure are complied with act<br />
quickly.<br />
We are in a country where we wait<br />
until something terrible happens before<br />
we act or rush to act and in haste, shed<br />
some crocodile tears and soon after let<br />
everything down again.<br />
For us to make things work the way<br />
we want it, our institutions need to be<br />
strong and the public also educated<br />
enough on all matters of public interest.<br />
uniBank voted 6th Most<br />
Prestigious Company in Ghana<br />
ONE OF the<br />
most alluring<br />
brands and leading<br />
indigenous<br />
enterprises, uni-<br />
Bank (Ghana) Limited has been<br />
voted as the sixth best-performing<br />
company in the country at<br />
the 16th edition of the Ghana<br />
Club 100 awards organised by<br />
the Ghana Investment Promotion<br />
Centre (GIPC) in Accra.<br />
The surging financial performance<br />
of uniBank in maintaining<br />
best practices enabled the<br />
bank to maintain an impressive<br />
sixth position in the listing of<br />
most enterprising companies in<br />
Ghana.<br />
Speaking on the theme: ‘Industrialisation:<br />
A tool for Job<br />
Creation and Accelerated Economic<br />
Development’, Mr Yaw<br />
Osafo Maafo, the Senior Minister,<br />
indicated that "Once you are<br />
in this top 100, you cannot do<br />
business as usual; each of you<br />
must try and bring improvement<br />
in your respective business operations”,<br />
and commended elected<br />
• Apiagyei Frempong, Head of Personal Banking, uniBank recieving a plaque<br />
from Mr Ken Ofori-Attah, Finance Minister<br />
companies for excelling in their<br />
respective disciplines.<br />
The event this year also witnessed<br />
special awards for outstanding<br />
business performers in<br />
selected categories, including<br />
Corporate Social Responsibility, a<br />
category won by uniBank.<br />
Dedicating the awards to the<br />
shareholders and cherished customers,<br />
Felix Dontoh, Head,<br />
Marketing and Communications<br />
at uniBank, indicated the bank’s<br />
resolve to maintain its position<br />
The event this year<br />
also witnessed<br />
special awards for<br />
outstanding business<br />
performers in<br />
selected categories,<br />
including<br />
Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility, a<br />
category won by<br />
uniBank.<br />
as a vital player in the highly<br />
competitive industry while being<br />
consistently socially responsive.<br />
The Ghana Club 100 (GC<br />
100) is an annual compilation of<br />
the top 100 companies in Ghana<br />
to give due recognition to successful<br />
enterprise building.<br />
The GC 100 is about corporate<br />
excellence and companies<br />
making it into GC 100 are to<br />
serve as role models for the private<br />
sector and provide a forum<br />
for corporate Ghana to interact<br />
with the government at a high<br />
level.
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