Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd (GGBL), “Ghana’s Most Celebrated Business”, observed its safety week last week under the theme: “Zero harm, everyone goes home safe everyday, everywhere”.

Safety week is observed every year to embed the safety culture into all Diageo businesses the world over, and Guinness Ghana Breweries had its maiden celebration this year. Diageo is the parent company of GGBL.

A series of activities were undertaken to observe the week-long celebration in both the Achimota and Kaasi breweries.

The week started with a grand brass band procession that saw scores of GGBL employees marching through the immediate vicinities of the brewery with placards to create awareness about safety in the workplace and at home.

In a speech to commence the celebration, Ekwunife Okoli, Managing Director of GGBL, said, “Achieving Zero Harm is our vision as a business.

We are committed to ensuring a safe workplace for all our employees whose safety and wellbeing and that of their dependants is of prime importance to us everyday. We therefore go to all lengths to ensure everybody goes home safely everyday, everywhere”.

Dr. Tony Joyce, Supply Director, added that “as the theme, Zero Harm suggests, we want to ensure zero injuries, zero fatalities, zero harm on all our sites.

We have the firm belief that valuing each other, one of our core values as a business begins with every GGBL employee being passionate about safety and about keeping each other safe”.

“We are all obsessively committed to preventing every single injury and when one occurs, we are ruthlessly focused on ensuring the person is supported and returns to work,” He continued.

The week-long celebration also included employees being taken through hazard spotting, near miss reporting, first aid and fire fighting demonstration, emergency evacuation drills, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) exhibition, as well as safety games and quizzes which saw some employees walking away with mouthwatering prizes.


Source: Daily Guide/Ghana