In a bid to ensure safety for Out-Of-Home Advertising Practitioners, Oyo State Government has rolled out safety guidelines.
The Director General of the Oyo State Signage and Advertisement Agency, Hon. Oludolapo Eso Ajanaku underscore the essence of safety and protection of workers, pedestrians and advertisement structures and outlines critical safety measures for a secure and efficient installation process.
Accordingto him, “henceforth, it is unacceptable for any installer of advertisement structure to jettison the safety rules and guidelines processes during and after instalment of such structures for the safety benefits of pedestrians and other road users in the course of erection and maintenance of billboards and other form of signages in the state.
It is now imperative for such offenders of the process to face the hammer of the law through sanctions and to maintain order and sanity during installation of billboards across the state”.
The safety guidelines includes; Preliminary Site Assessment Evaluation, Permit and Regulatory Compliance. Personal Safety Measures, Equipment and Machinery Safety, Traffic and Pedestrians Control and Safety Handling and Transportation Materials among others essential safety measures.
OYSAA would henceforth monitor and embark on enforcement excercise inline with execution of the safety guidelines process and any practitioner found culprit of the guidelines would be subjected to fines and sanction by the agency.
Oyo State Signage and Advertisement says “your safety first” to secure lives and properties in the advertising industry in the state.
