NSITF Boss Pledges to Promote Safety in Work Places …Bags Safety Award

By Chinedu Echianu

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye, has pledged to further promote safety culture within the country, especially in the workplace.

Faleye made the pledge when the President of the Institute of Safety Professionals in Nigeria, ISPON, Dr Udezi Stephen, paid a courtesy visit to the NSITF Corporate Headquarters in Abuja, and conferred on him the Safety Ambassador Award of the Institute.

Speaking after bagging the Safety Ambassador Award, Faleye stated that the NSITF and ISPON shared a mutual vision in the promotion of safety culture within Nigeria, particularly in the workplace, and called for further symbiotic collaborations.

He expressed delight at the opportunity to share ideas with the Institute and charged ISPON to mobilise its members to register in the Employee’s Compensation Scheme of the NSITF and help promote it further.

Barrister Faleye thanked the ISPON Board for the award which he accepted “on behalf of NSITF” and promised to wear the title “with the utmost responsibility” adding that the award was in recognition of the effort of all staff of the Fund.

“It is important that we continue to collaborate, and continue to look for ways to deepen our collaboration further. We believe it’s very critical that we also undertake a sort of symbiotic relationship that allows ISPON to promote ECS within its network.So we really look forward to ISPON encouraging its members and affiliated organisations to not only subscribe, but to actively promote the Employee Compensation Scheme across board” Faleye said.

President of ISPON, Dr. Stephen lauded Faleye for his exemplary leadership since he became the Managing Director of the NSITF and expressed amazement at the youthfulness of Barrister Faleye, combined with his intelligence and innovations, commending him for his good works and support for his Organization, which led to the decision of the ISPON Board to confer him with the award of Safety Ambassador.