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Training Course on "Occupational Health and Safety" at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU)

Training Course: Environmental Science Department of Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore and Global Environmental Lab Lahore jointly organised a one-day training course on "Occupational Health and Safety" in the university seminar room last week.

According to a press statement, the purpose of the training course was to provide information for the identification of health and safety issues at workplace, impart training to formulate occupational health and safety (OHS) practices for identified issues and develop skills for the use of equipment for the management of health and safety issues.

Prof Dr K J Cheema, Dean Faculty of Natural Sciences highlighted the significance of occupational health and safety at workplace. She narrated that occupational health was the physical, physiological and psychosocial condition of an organisation's workforce, related to different work context. Every organisation must prevent injury, illness and death at workplace. "The OHS legislation requires that employers provide adequate training and supervision to workers", she said while adding, "An employer should provide information and training about hazards, safe work procedures, the health and safety policy and the arrangements for health and safety for the workers."

Ms Asia Saif from Honda Atlas Cars, Lahore described the importance of personal protective equipment (PPE) at workplace specially industry, its types, use, and limitations.

Asim Mehmood, Director Global Environmental Lab said that no matter how experienced and knowledgeable an operator might become, he/she must always exercise maximum amount of caution when one faced fault identification and troubleshooting of electrical apparatus or circuits.

Speaking on the occasion, LCWU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Bushra Mateen emphasized that every organisation must had a systematic examination and monitoring programme to conduct survey and identify hazards regularly for the effective OHS management system and determine whether these could support health, safety and productivity together.

Dr Muhammad Afzal Chaudhry from Global Environmental Lab also spoke on the occasion.

The course was organised as an activity of the Higher Education Link (HEL) between Environmental Science Department of LCWU and Division of Biology, Imperial College London, UK. The project titled "Strengthening and Development of Environmental Training and Research Centre at LCWU, Pakistan" is funded under the Higher Education Commission-British Council Joint HE Link Project (HEC-BC JHELP-II).
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