Global Safety Day: WACT Commissions Firefighting Truck, Recovery Tow Truck

The West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) commissioned a firefighting truck, recovery tow truck and a water bowser truck to mark the 2024 Annual Global Safety Day at Onne Port, Rivers State last Wednesday.

The event themed, “Be Curious Because We Care,” reflects WACT’s utmost and underlying priority: keeping all workers, contractors and other stakeholders at the terminal safe.
The company said safety is not a one-time, annual focus – “it is our license to operate and the commitment we make every day to our colleagues that, no matter what their work is, or where it is, they get to go home safely at the end of the day.

Speaking at the event, the General Manager, Government and Public Relations, Innocent Ogbuji, said WACT is committed to safety and ensures continuous improvement on safety. He further emphasised the importance of safety by encouraging colleagues, government officials and everyone present to be curious about safety in the right direction.
“All this while, safety has been engineered from the top, but we want it to start from you, and that is why we want you to be curious. From the top, we make policies, processes and you carry it out but now, we want you to question things to learn more about the process and improve it. We also encourage the government agencies to be curious with us,’’ he said.
Also speaking, WACT’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager, Adeboye Ogunpolu, said, “We are committed to ensuring that everyone who comes to our terminal, colleagues, customers, vendors, government agencies, no matter what their work is, or where it is, they get to go home safely at the end of the day.”

Also speaking that the event, the Senior Safety Officer of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Onne Port Complex, Osuntuyi Niyi, commended WACT for observing the annual Global Safety Day to promote safety in the workplace and reiterated NPA’s vision to deliver efficient port services in a safe, secure and customer-friendly environment.