The Group Managing Director (GMD), Chemstar Paints Industries Nigeria Limited (Paints & Chemicals), Adedayo Paseda, has reiterated that the company will not relent in prioritising the health and safety, welfare and well-being of the staff.
He disclosed this while declaring open the company’s Health & Safety Week 2025. Chemstar Paints Industries Nigeria Limited is the manufacturer of Finecoat and Shield Paints, the premium brand, and other allied paints products.
The three-day event took place at the Casso, Agbado, Lagos Head Office and Factory of the paints firm.
With the theme: “Health Is Wealth,” Paseda said the Week, a yearly event, reaffirmed the need to prioritise the health and safety of the workers, through knowledge of their health status and how to live a healthy lifestyle.
The GMD, who said financial resources were invested in the staff’s health and safety needs, and in providing safety kits such as boots, helmets, nose masks, among others, hinted that the management spends over N20 million yearly on the staff HMO Health Insurance, aside other health and hospital issues of members of staff that need to be attended to urgently without waiting for HMO.
“We are concerned about promoting our staff’s health and mental health. Through the yearly health and safety exercise every staff member knows his or her health status, which will guide us in how we live and conduct our health affairs,” Paseda stated.
He, however, described the Week as “very rewarding and result-oriented,” saying a large number of the staff underwent the medical check-up that enabled them to know the state of their health, while those who needed to make some adjustment to their diet, lifestyle, and those that need to go on medication were rightly advised by the medical personnel.
The three-day event featured a medical check-up, health talk, investment talk, fire safety lecture and fire drills by officials of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, led by the Chief Fire Officer, Mrs Johnson Funmilayo, and Deputy Director Training, Babajide Adepoju.
