Ensuring safety measures at workplace need of hour: Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: Former Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, on Friday, said ensuring safety measures at workplaces were a need of the hour.

Addressing a conference-cum-exhibition in Islamabad, he claimed that all religions stressed to ensure protecting human lives and giving them due respect and dignity.

“The government, departments concerned and companies should fulfil their responsibilities to ensure safety measures at workplaces in an efficient manner,” Abbasi said.

The ‘Professional Development Conference’ was organised by the Pakistan Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers, in which safety equipment manufacturing’s national and international companies, including Sui Northern Gas Company Limited (SNGPL), participated and displayed their products.

He expressed concern over increasing the number of incidents taking places due to lack of appropriate safety measures at workplaces, which not only claimed precious lives but also caused financial loss.

He said Pakistan was among the fast developing countries as a number of new mega development projects were going to start in the country in the coming years.

Abbasi said there was the need to create awareness among masses about safety measures and media should play its role in this regard.