Business safety issues in Nigeria
are largely left to hope rather than experience.
Cataclysmal occurrences elsewhere
are ascribed to ill luck, home trouble, which can be left with the Pastor,
Alfa, Babalawo, Seer or Marabout to sort out while you get on with the business
of "making money". Sad road to take, but mind you, the choice is entirely
yours. Besides, the power to choose is one of the most powerful tools God
gifted us with so there's no call for regret when it all falls down and your
business is badly hit. Your employees may be killed or maimed in the process
which will leave in all sorts of troubles. It is a fact that each so-called
accident puts you in the line of ill affordable mass of restitution bills,
compensation claims, hiked insurance premiums and general re-start headaches;
and a permanently damaged business reputation.
Mind you, people will cotton on
faster if we had a clear cut policy and practice of enforcement of health and
safety regulations in this country. Things would work better, boundaries and
limitations would be more apparent and consequences will be obvious, but not
here, not yet anyway. For now, it's free-for-all practice which in turn
promotes quackery and unprofessionalism. The country and people are short-changed;
accidents remain prevalent while business and economy suffer irretrievably.
Yet we holler blue murder, never
again and similar fatuous statements each time the next structure collapses or
50+ travelers are roasted on the road, a huge inferno lays a multi-billion
modern market to ruin, or an unsecured container falls off a low bed trailer
and flattens an unfortunate young family travelling alongside it, etc.
It's been said elsewhere severally
and repeatedly that God especially loves Nigeria - I'm not about to argue with
that. For where else on this planet would you find a place where safety is left
to hope than experience?
Stay safe. It is your only chance.
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