PRESS RELEASE – World Day for Safety and Health at Work Stewardship Awards Ceremony, at Le Lava Hotel

The theme for this year’s World OSH Day, “Ensuring safe and healthy work now in a changing climate” places emphasis on the workers and employers safety and health while adapting to climate change.

Samoa, being a member state of the International Labour Organization (ILO) since 2005, commenced the commemoration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work in 2006. The World OSH Day is celebrated on the 28th April annually, through the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour.

The Ministry in collaboration with the National OSH Task Force, the ILO and the Samoa National Tripartite Forum (SNTF) organized selected activities for this year’s celebrations. These included an Awareness Program, TV Talk-shows; and culminating with an Awards Ceremony on the 2 nd May 2024 to acknowledge, and to recognize outstanding achievements and compliance by Government Ministries, Companies and Organizations towards the OSH legislation and policies over the last two years. A special panel from the OSH Task-force was tasked with assessing award winners for the seven categories and the Overall Winner, based on three criteria; Compliance, Initiative and Awareness of OSH within workplaces.

The Ministry acknowledges the continued support of ILO. As well as sponsorship gifts provided by the National Bank of Samoa (NBS), Business System Limited (BSL). We thanked all stakeholders for their efforts to strengthen and promote the work on safety and health in the workplace, through the Samoa National Tripartite Forum and National OSH Taskforce.

A big faamalo and congratulations to the following Award Winners that were announced on the Awards night;

Category Recipients

1. Government ministries:

– 1st Place – Office of the Public Service Commission

– 2nd Place – Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

2. State Owned Enterprises

– 1st Place – Samoa Housing Corporation

– 2nd Place – Samoa Airport Authority.

3. Construction Industry

– 1st Place – Ah Liki Construction

– 2nd Place – Lucky Construction

4. Manufacturing Industry

– 1st Place – British American Tobacco

– 2nd Place – Samoa Breweries limited, Vailima

5. Tourism & hospitality

– 1st Place – Taumeasina Island Resort

– 2nd Place – Le Uaina hotel & resort Faleapuna

6. Food & Beverage

– 1st Place – Rokos Restaurant

– 2nd Place – Amanaki Restaurant

7. Service stations

– 1st Place – Mynas Service Station

– 2nd Place – TNT Service station

8. TOP Stewardship Award OVERALL TOP AWARD – AH LIKI CONSTRUCTION

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SOURCE – Ministry of Commerce Industry & Labour