Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OSHA) has trained its workers from different units on how to increase efficiency, adhere to ethics and eradicate corruption.
“Through the training we are reminding the staff to ensure that corruption acts are if possible eliminated if not controlled, because the corruption denies someone’s basic right,” OSHA’s Chief Executive Officer Khadija Mwenda stated over the weekend.
At the five-day training in Morogoro region, Ms Mwenda further expressed optimism that the capacity-building workshop will enable the authority meet its goal of inspecting all workplaces and increase compliance of the 2003 law on safety and health and its regulations.
When opening the training, she reminded the authority’s workers to continue embracing trustworthiness and keep up values and ethics of the public service.
“Our vision requires us to make sure all workplaces observe safety and health measures. We, therefore, shall make sure that we inspect those places and advise our stakeholders on how to meet the requirements,” she pointed out.
Equally, she reminded the inspectors of their duty of inspecting and advising employees as well as employers at workplaces on how to minimize risks.
The Chief Executive Officer noted that the authority will continue giving priority to advocacy, awareness creation and consultancy issues on safety and health at workplaces than giving punishment.
On his part, director of training, research, statistics and advocacy, Mr Joshua Matiko, said the training was also meant to getting feedback on challenges facing workplaces and chart a way forward.
“After this training we hope that all inspectors will have their efficiency increased once they go back to work.
Reached for a comment, some of the participants thanked the authority for the training, admitting that it has given them new skills.
One of them, Richard Edward, who is an environmental inspector, said the training will contribute to improvement of the authority’s services.
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