POF seminar highlights importance of health, safety

A seminar on health, safety and environment was organized on the start of 'Safety Week' in POF under the auspices of health, safety and environment (HSE) department of POF this morning. Speakers highlighted the importance of health, safety and environment in an industry and stressed upon the audience to create awareness among employees. It is imperative to bring the standards of health, safety and environment to international standards as all organizations in the world focus on environment, health and safety of their employees. The speakers further mentioned that it was the need of hour to further improve the disaster management as we lack infrastructure to cope with natural calamities
Earlier, Tariq Shauq director health, safety and environment in his address remarked that health, safety and environment are the part and parcel of any industrial complex. He further mentioned that HSE Department of POF has taken a lot of steps to maintain the required standard of health, safety and environment in POF. Latest safety equipments are being provided to the employees that will help reduce the number of accidents in this industrial complex. The other speakers who spoke on the subject included Lieutenant Comdr Eusuf Viqar of NDMA, Naeem Subhani of ASSE, Mobeen Khan of 1122, Sana Ullah and Mudassir of Civil Defence.-PR