The Ogun State Government has unveiled plans to establish a Safety Commission and commence a comprehensive statewide industrial safety audit programme as part of efforts to strengthen workplace safety and promote sustainable industrial growth.
Ola Oresanya, the Commissioner for Environment, disclosed this at recent training workshop for safety personnel in Abeokuta. The workshop, themed “Industrial Resilience and Safety Governance: Building a Culture of Compliance, Prevention and Sustainable Growth,” brought together safety professionals from industries across the state.
Oresanya said the planned transformation of the existing Safety Office into a fully empowered Ogun State Safety Commission would create a more responsive regulatory framework capable of improving policy implementation, technical oversight, enforcement and collaboration with industry stakeholders.
He explained that recent inspections, facility assessments and preliminary safety audits conducted by the ministry revealed a significant gap between documented safety procedures and actual workplace practices.
According to him, many organisations possess sound safety policies on paper but fail to consistently implement them, resulting in compliance driven more by inspections than by an ingrained culture of prevention. Related News The power of the informal economy 6 African countries Nigerians can visit visa-free, and what to eat there Nigeria among top 10 countries where people trust the news most in 2026
