Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, Plc (IBEDC) has joined the nation to celebrate our future, the Nigerian child as part of activities for the 2022international Children’s Day celebration, by visiting several public schools within its network to create awareness on electricity safety. The visit also coincides with the Company’s safety sensitization activities earmarked for the commemoration of the just concluded World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
A statement by the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Engr. John Ayodele, said the need to educate children on imbibing a positive health and safety culture should not be taken for granted. Cultivating the lesson on how to maintain safety around electricity early will not only save their lives, but it will also forestall lifelong injuries.
“We are strategically embarking on these sensitization visits of some public schools across our franchise to equip children with the safety skill set that will change their orientation about electricity safety and make them act proactively, because as we know, prevention is better than cure. IBEDC as a socially responsible corporate entity with education at the core of its CSR thrust, then decided that, in addition to our annual donation of school materials and fees to some indigent students, we will leverage the Children’s Day celebration as a platform to teach the children on safety,” Ayodele said.
Speaking further, Engr. Ayodele IBEDC is committed to upholding global safety standards, as well as sustaining the health and safety culture the company has built over the years through continuous internal endeavors and collaborations with external safety agencies.
“It is against this backdrop that we organized various programs aimed at institutionalizing the safety culture within our business and the people we serve, namely Essay Competition, 1st Responder training, Technical workshops and colloquium, courtesy visits to critical stakeholders etc, to commemorate the 2022 World Day for Safety and Health at Work. This is to further position us for the safety challenges and best practices of the 21st century.
Speaking at one of the schools visited, Abadina Grammar School, situated within the University of Ibadan, IBEDC Regional Head Oyo Region, Gboyega Agunlejika, explained that the purpose of visiting the schools is to enlighten the children on safety precaution and make them to become ambassador for safety in order to have zero accident across the company’s franchise.
”Since our business is a high-risk business and we see that there is a trend of a lot of accident happening in various locations and for us as a corporate organization, safety is a primary goal for our customers, for the public even for everybody that has anything to do around electricity and one of the strategies we are deploying is to go to an educational institution such as this, where we can catch people young educate them, enlighten them on safety precautions, and making them ambassadors for safety so that we can have mere zero accident across our franchise.”
Mr. Jeremy Michael, who is the Regional Safety Supervisor for Oyo Region, enjoined the people to stop building houses close to a power line or close to energy facility and children to stop playing at a place close to transformer installation.
“Part of the precautionary measures that we have come to discuss with the students today is for them to see electricity as a good servant but a bad master. As good as electricity is, it can also kill within a space of seconds, so we are telling everyone both the old and the young, in as much as you need to make use of electricity on a daily basis, you also need to see the risk associated with the unsafe use of the commodity. We keep telling people to stop building houses close to a power line, don’t go close to energies facilities, children that are playing ball should not go close to transformer installation, so anyone that sees a snap cable on the ground across the road, nobody should go close to it, those are the tips, also, traders should stop selling under high tension, we’ve seen a lot of that, and we keep telling people that this is actually dangerous.”
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