Introduction: An effective leadership is critical to the development of a safety culture within an organization. Patient safety in primary health care is an emerging field of research of increasing importance. Objective: This study has been conducted to explore the safety culture attitude toward patient safety to improve the quality and patient safety in primary health-care centers. Methods: A cross-sectional survey involving 288 medical staff in primary health-care centers in Al-Ahsa was conducted using an Arabic translated safety attitude questionnaire to assess the safety attitudes among health care center staff toward patient safety culture.
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SINGAPORE - There has been an alarming rise in workplace accidents and deaths this year, said National Trades Union Congress assistant secretary-general Melvin Yong on Saturday (Sept 25).
He said in a Facebook post the recent blast at Tuas Incineration Plant was a grim reminder of this.
For at least the third time this year, the labour MP called on companies here to conduct safety time-outs and to reassess their work processes.
Thursday’s blast at the National Environment Agency (NEA)-owned plant left one worker dead and two seriously injured.
Mr Yong urged all companies to work with labour unions to train safe management officers to become dedicated workplace safety and health representatives.
This is so that a good safety culture can be instilled at the workplace, he said.
Meanwhile, workplace safety experts lamented that the blast occurred while an inquiry into another fatal explosion in a Tuas industrial building was ongoing.
For more than 60 years, hundreds of young artists have spent their summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, hoping to start their careers on the right foot. Frequented by influential vacationers to the Berkshires, the months-long event is considered a rare opportunity for up-and-coming actors to share scenes with Tony Award winners, for emerging directors to learn from industry titans. Work the festival and securing gigs in the industry will be easier, thanks to the company’s standing, its vast network and its proved track record of transferring productions to New York City. Sure, the pay is low — or nonexistent — but the payoff is known to be well worth it.
Or is it? Recent complaints and subsequent interviews with 25 current and former festival staffers, department heads, apprentices and interns reveal not a professional springboard but a development program that exposes artists-in-training to repeated safety hazards and a toxic work culture under the guise of prestige.
In an eight-page letter and accompanying appendix, sent to the festival’s leadership and board in February and obtained by The Times, 75 alumni alleged a pattern of dangerous working conditions and demanded changes to its treatment of young arts workers. “It wasn’t just one summer. It wasn’t just one production. It wasn’t just one bad apple,” read the letter. “The system that sustains Williamstown Theatre Festival is deeply broken.”
Unsafe working practices and poor safety culture were at issue in the death of port stevedore who was crushed by a hatch cover during cargo discharge operations on board a ship at a Antwerp bulk terminal last year.
The port stevedore was on board the Gibraltar registered general cargo ship MV Cimbris when he was fatally crushed when a hatch cover was moved by the ship’s gantry crane at the Antwerp Bulk Terminal in Belgium on July 14, 2020.
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch conducted the investigation on behalf of the Gibraltar Government in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between the MAIB and the Red Ensign Group Category 1 registries of Isle of Man, Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Gibraltar.
No-one saw the stevedore place himself in a hazardous position between the crane and the hatch cover, and the ship’s chief officer did not have a clear line of sight, the MAIB said. A second crew member was not used to act as a lookout or banksman.
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In a joint statement with partner organizations, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) linked universal health coverage to the importance of instilling a patient safety culture in the design and delivery of the whole healthcare spectrum.
This covers health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care, with the goal of providing safe, people-centered, accessible, acceptable, affordable, and quality healthcare.
In implementing GPSAP 2021–30, patients, their families, and carers must be engaged in co-creating safe care and primary healthcare strengthened in partnership with family doctors.
After a series of catastrophic and high-profile incidents, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) was tasked with playing a larger role in overseeing safety for public transportation. It now works with transit agencies to develop data-driven safety plans, among other activities.
FTA requires transit agencies to develop new safety plans that incorporate Safety Management Systems (SMS) to manage and mitigate safety risk. FTA also incorporated SMS in its transit agency oversight to better identify and assess safety risks, and determine appropriate mitigation efforts, including mandatory safety standards.
To assess how FTA is implementing its responsibilities, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) spoke with twelve selected transit agencies and found that most faced challenges incorporating FTA requirements to develop and document its SMS in their new agency safety plans. Some rail transit agencies noted difficulties transitioning from the former 21-element safety plan to SMS and its four required components. However, most transit agencies said they benefited from FTA’s assistance. FTA’s assistance included guidance documents, webinars, and training. Upon request, FTA also reviewed transit agencies’ draft safety plans, providing lessons learned from those reviews.
FTA established a Safety Risk Management (SRM) process to identify, assess, and mitigate safety risks across the nation’s transit agencies. During the initial implementation, FTA selected four safety concerns to review. According to FTA, the use of cameras on rail transit was a pilot project, and FTA has completed four of the five steps in its process for the camera safety pilot. Though FTA continues to evaluate that pilot and work on the other three safety concerns, GAO’s review found it has not completed actions to prepare for future rounds of the SRM process. In particular, GAO was concerned that FTA has not identified and documented lessons learned from the pilot.
Developing and maintaining a “safety culture” at a transit agency has also been a challenge, according to eight of the twelve transit agencies GAO spoke with. Officials from more than half of the agencies said they had to make organizational changes to better implement a safety culture, such as setting up employee hotlines, conducting employee surveys, or greater communication to staff from upper management.
FTA is continuing to gather information while considering whether to mandate certain transit safety standards. FTA has issued safety bulletins for rail cameras and end-of-railcar signage, which suggest but do not require certain actions related to the installation of cameras and signage in rail transit cars. GAO adds that FTA has not yet initiated a rulemaking for any mandatory federal safety standards. The watchdog said that the transit agencies it spoke with were generally open to mandatory safety standards for some safety issues. For example, many of the selected transit agencies expressed support for requiring medical examinations of employees, as well as other so-called human-factor safety risks.
ilot error and failure to follow safety guidelines probably led to the crash of an Air India Express plane in August last year, investigators say. The passenger plane with 190 people on board crashed at the Calicut airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing 21 people. The Boeing 737, which had flown from Dubai, skidded off the runway in rain and broke in two after landing.
The pilot also “did not make the mandatory announcement for the cabin crew to be seated on the first approach for landing… This is a very serious omission and compromises cabin crew”, the report said. The report added that “systemic failures” could have also contributed to the crash. “These usually occur due to prevailing safety culture that give rise to errors, mistakes and violation of routine tasks performed by people operating within the system,” it said.
Some U.S. space observers have also expressed concern about Russia’s participation in the ISS after a newly arrived space station module, Nauka, accidentally tilted the ISS in July due to a thruster misfire, causing a spacecraft emergency. The ISS quickly recovered and the crew was in no danger, NASA said at the time.
James Oberg, a U.S. space journalist who frequently reports on Russia, subsequently wrote an op-ed in IEEE Spectrum in early August asking for an independent investigation and adding he has concerns about NASA’s safety culture. Around the same time, however, both Russia and NASA emphasized the partnership and safety measures remain strong between the two space agencies.
The Associated Press and other media outlets reported the basic facts starting September 2 that the FAA had ordered Virgin Galactic to conduct no further flights pending the investigation of the July flight’s trajectory, which strayed outside of the protected airspace for one minute and 41 seconds of the 15-minute rocket ride to 53.5 miles above the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
A more detailed account published by The New Yorker magazine on September 1, written by longtime staffer Nicholas Schmidle, raised afresh questions about Virgin Galactic’s safety culture that were also detailed in Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut, the book Schmidle spent years reporting and writing. Schmidle wrote that warning lights, first yellow, later red, that appeared about a minute into the rocket burn on July 11, indicated that the craft was off-course and in danger of not having enough energy available at apogee to glide back to the spaceport where the media awaited the return of Branson and the Virgin Galactic crew.
On September 2, Virgin Galactic announced its next planned flight from Spaceport America will carry paying crewmembers, two members of the Italian Air Force, and an aerospace engineer working for the National Research Council. Virgin Galactic Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses will serve as “cabin lead in space,” providing information and instructions as the mission proceeds. The flight is also expected to carry various scientific payloads.
Virgin Galactic “may not return the SpaceShipTwo vehicle to flight until the FAA approves the final mishap investigation report or determines the issues related to the mishap do not affect public safety,” the FAA told CNBC on September 2.
An Essex hospital’s maternity services facing staff shortages led to a downgrade to ‘requires improvement’ largely because of a workforce set to retire at the same time.
An extra 30 midwives are being recruited from Italy and Portugal to work at Ipswich, Colchester and Clacton hospitals in light of a Care Quality Commission inspection that found sustained periods of reduced staffing.
The shortage of staff is not related to Brexit, a spokesperson for the hospital added, but rather to do with the age profile of current midwives – many of whom are reaching retirement age at the same time.
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Four workstreams will address organisational development, safety culture, governance, and staffing and workforce.
The Programme Board had been formed to address continuous improvement in maternity services.
A report from ESNEFT to the Essex Health Overview Policy and Scrutiny Committee meeting on September 2 said: “The Trust was aware of the challenges within maternity services prior to the CQC inspection and was taking steps to improve the leadership and governance structures to support them.
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A new “safety culture” programme has been rolled out at a Network Rail team where racial tensions were found to have contributed to a site collision, Construction News can reveal.
As reported on CN last year, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found a “culture of racial prejudice among members of staff at various levels of the workforce towards contractors supplied by labour agencies” as it looked into an accident where a mobile elevating work platform collided with a stationary machine on which two people were installing overhead line equipment.
Both men suffered minor injuries in the January 2020 incident in Rochford, near Southend in Essex. According to an RAIB report, there was ineffective supervision and a “catalogue of errors and omissions” at the site, while safety was undermined by poor working relationships between machine operators and controllers, including racial tensions and language barriers.
Chief inspector of rail accidents Simon French told CN that his team discovered “a shocking breakdown” of relationships.
“If the guys in one of the platforms hadn’t been wearing harnesses, they would almost certainly had been thrown to their deaths,” he added.
A small group of Boeing engineers who perform key safety tasks are raising concerns about their ability to work free of pressure from supervisors, and their comments are prompting federal regulators to take a broader look into the company’s safety culture.
The employees are deputized to approve safety assessments and handle other jobs for the Federal Aviation Administration, making their independence from company pressure critical.
According to an FAA letter, one of the employees said, “I had to have a sit down with a manager and explain why I can’t approve something.” The worker indicated that the company shopped around for another employee in the engineering unit.
Another employee reported consternation by managers when engineers find fault in designs of components because that can cause delays in delivering airplanes.
The FAA’s initial investigation ran from May until July. An FAA official described it in an August 19 letter to Boeing’s leader of safety and aircraft certification. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
“We take these matters with the utmost seriousness, and are continuously working to improve the processes we have in place to ensure the independence” of employees who work on behalf of the FAA, said Boeing spokeswoman Jessica Kowal. She said those employees “must be accorded the same respect and deference that is shown” to FAA personnel.
A local advocacy group for inshore harvesters is calling DFO’s decision not to extend the halibut fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence a “damning indictment” of the federal department’s safety culture.
That’s according to Merv Wiseman, an outspoken search and rescue advocate and member of SEA-NL.
SEA-NL says many harvesters were unable to catch their quotas in the area due to poor weather.
Wiseman says DFO is essentially telling harvesters if they don’t go to sea because of bad weather, they’ll lose their fish.
He says “putting extra pressure on fishermen to make decisions contrary to safety is a recipe for disaster” that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have seen play out “too many times.”
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he draft statement concludes environmental and socioeconomic impacts from renewing the operating licence for 40 years would be small for most environmental resource areas, with small to moderate impacts primarily in groundwater on the plant site. The report details measures Westinghouse has implemented under a consent agreement with South Carolina to mitigate the effects of spills during past operations, and two new licence conditions regarding environmental monitoring to monitor, mitigate, and prevent future contamination. Comments will be accepted until 20 September. The NRC staff intends to hold a public meeting during the comment period to present its findings and accept comments. In 2017, NRC issued a confirmatory order to Westinghouse after the discovery in May 2016 of accumulated uranium-bearing material at the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility. NRC said it would not issue a civil penalty or cite the company for violations because of the commitments Westinghouse had made under the order. The accumulation of uranium-bearing material in a scrubber system, which is designed to remove unwanted material from a number of plant processes, had been discovered by plant employees during an annual maintenance shutdown at the facility. Analysis of the material indicated that the scrubber contained the equivalent of about 100kg of uranium, exceeding the mass limit of 29kg set in its criticality safety evaluation. The scrubber, which had already been returned to service by the time the analysis was completed, was shut down again. NRC’s confirmatory action letter outlined Westinghouse’s commitments to ensure the causes of the uranium build-up were adequately identified and evaluated, and to implement appropriate corrective actions to improve the performance of its nuclear criticality safety programme. Some of those actions had already been completed and others had been incorporated into the new confirmatory order. “Under the order, Westinghouse has taken and agreed to take a number of corrective actions, including a survey of the safety culture among employees at the site, improvements and modifications to scrubbers and other systems to minimise the likelihood of a similar accumulation, and development of additional methods to provide early indications of abnormal accumulations,” NRC said at the time.
Disaster nearly struck the International Space Station last week when a Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters shortly after docking. A retired space engineer is now sounding the alarm, saying NASA’s safety culture is showing signs of decay and that an independent investigation is necessary.
James Oberg is not one to hold back.
The retired “rocket scientist” and mission controller worked at NASA from 1975 to 1997, where he served as an expert on orbital rendezvous. His expansive knowledge of the Russian and Chinese space programs has led him to testify before Congress on several occasions, and his 2002 book, Star-Crossed Orbits, exposed the shortcomings that existed in the U.S.-Russian relationship while the ISS was under development.
Naturally, the recent incident with the ISS caught Oberg’s attention, prompting him to write a guest post for IEEE Spectrum.
Related Stories NASA’s Year-Long Simulated Mission to Mars Would Probably Kick Your Ass Launch of Boeing’s Starliner Delayed Indefinitely Due to Vexing Technical Glitch SpaceX Starship Stacking Produces the Tallest Rocket Ever Built “While the proximate cause of the incident is still being unravelled, there are worrisome signs that NASA may be repeating some of the lapses that lead to the loss of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles and their crews,” he wrote. “And because political pressures seem to be driving much of the problem, only an independent investigation with serious political heft can reverse any erosion in safety culture.”
MARTA, GDOT, and OSHA are all involved in a brawl over MARTA’s safety culture.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) and MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority) are at loggerheads over the results of a recent safety investigation and report by the GDOT on alleged safety violations at MARTA.
One issue that sparked the investigation was the death of a MARTA contractor in 2018 when, while sitting in his vehicle, was struck by a northbound train. The GDOT said that MARTA had not implemented effective safety monitoring and protocols after this accident, and had allowed safety offers to work long shifts without required breaks. And, the GDOT report said that the accident that caused the contractor’s death resulted from human error.
The investigation and report also concluded that there is a toxic culture at MARTA that creates a hostile environment for those who report safety violations. In fact, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is looking at a report by a MARTA worker who filed a whistleblower report regarding some of the items that are also in the GDOT report. Moreover, a MARTA safety officer who says they were fired for speaking up against safety violations has initiated a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court.
MARTA has cried foul over the GDOT report. The agency said that the GDOT didn’t have jurisdiction over labor-management issues, and OSHA does, which is why MARTA is working with OSHA. Those who reviewed the GDOT report said that they could not verify the allegations. In addition, MARTA says that GDOT investigators did not interview MARTA safety managers, nor did they pay attention to information MARTA provided about the situation that offered a different perspective.
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Boeing is slated to launch its long-anticipated Starliner spacecraft — which is built to carry NASA astronauts — on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station, a follow-up to the company’s botched first attempt 18 months ago, tomorrow. It will be a decisive moment for Boeing and NASA, as the traditional aerospace giant seeks to join SpaceX in ferrying people to the station.
The Starliner was scheduled to launch from Florida Friday afternoon and dock with the ISS on Saturday. But when a new laboratory module from Russia, called Nauka, docked at the space station Thursday morning, the module’s thrusters began unexpectedly firing.
Though NASA confirmed no one was in danger and ground teams regained control of the space station after about an hour, Starliner’s take off will be delayed in order to allow mission control to “continue working checkouts of the newly arrived Nauka module and to ensure the station will be ready for Starliner’s arrival.”
Boeing is now expecting to launch no earlier than Tuesday, August 3, though the 45th Weather Squadron at Patrick Space Force Base is saying that there is a 40% chance that poor weather will postpone the launch further. …
The flight also comes as investors and customers are keeping a close eye on Boeing as it continues to grapple with a series of controversies and scandals, most notably with its 737 Max aircraft, and questions about its internal safety culture.
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July 28, 2021 – A new study from Sweden has shown that MRI-related incidents tend to be greatly underreported. The authors warn that some unreported incidents may have catastrophic outcomes, and a major educational effort is urgently required.
“To enhance the safety culture across all sites, more easily accessible education is needed,” the authors wrote in an article published by European Radiology on 20 July. “Broadening collaboration among radiographers, radiologists, and MR physicists will also enhance the safety work.”
The researchers, led by Johan Kihlberg, PhD, a specialist radiographer at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) in Linköping, interviewed staff at 13 sites across Sweden about the level of MR safety and MR-related incidents. They used a semi-structured questionnaire. The reporting rate of incidents was very low (38%), suggesting that about 100 incidents remained unreported.
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July 24, Colombo: Every year about 800 Sri Lankans die due to drowning and it is the second cause for unintentional injury deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.
Samitha Siritunga, Consultant Community Physician and National Programme Manager- Injury Prevention and Management of the Directorate of Non-Communicable Diseases of Ministry of Health said most of the drowning victims are belonged to the age group of 21-60 years which is the economically productive group.
In a message to mark the World Drowning Prevention Day on July 25, the health official said human behavior has been identified as a key risk factor for occurrence of drowning.
She said including a water safety culture within the country is crucial and, it is necessary to educate the public on water safety, establish barriers, improve swim skills, rescue and resuscitation training etc. Further, it is needed to identify new laws and regulations to improve the water safety in the country.
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LOS ANGELES — The widow and two minor children of a 34-year-old Southern California Edison Co. contract worker are suing the utility, alleging negligence on the part of the utility caused the man’s 2020 electrocution death.
Stephanie Wickstrom, who was married to lineman Eric Wickstrom of Redlands, brought the complaint Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of herself and her twin sons against the Rosemead-based company, seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
“SCE understood and knew that due to its flawed and dangerous safety culture, unsafe acts will occur and accidents and serious injuries will happen when third-party contractors were working on its facilities,” the suit states. “There had been a number of injuries and/or deaths caused by SCE’s flawed safety culture, including at least three injuries in 2018 and one death in 2018.”
An SCE representative could not be immediately reached.
In 2020, SCE had a contract with Wickstrom’s employer, Diversified Utility Services Inc., to maintain and repair distribution lines, the suit states. Wickstrom and other Diversified workers assisted SCE’s repair crews by doing emergency repair work on poles damaged by vehicles, the suit states.
A leaked audio recording of a group commander at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, lecturing airmen after sorties were canceled due to crew fatigue has raised concerns about the wing’s leadership style and safety culture.
The concerns became public July 17, when the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page posted an account by an anonymous author alleging a “toxic culture of leadership” in the operations group for Tinker’s 552nd Air Control Wing, which flies the Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, aircraft.
According to the account, AWACS crews last week were ordered to show up for exercise sorties with roughly half the sleep they needed. The writer said base leaders decided it was not safe to fly, calling off all three planned flights and allowing the crews to rest.
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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Gold miner Gascoyne Resources has reported a slight decline in gold production during the June quarter at its Dalgaranga operation, in Western Australia, compared with the March quarter. The ASX-listed miner on Friday reported that gold production for the three months to June had reached 17 416 oz, down from the 19 195 oz produced in the previous quarter. ADVERTISEMENT
Gold sales for the quarter reached 17 993 oz, generating revenues of A$45.2-million, compared with the A$19 073 oz sold in the March quarter for revenues of A$47.5-million. For the full year ended June, Gascoyne produced 77 278 oz of gold, meeting its guidance expectations. ADVERTISEMENT
“Our full year production result of over 77 000 oz has been achieved on the back of an improved safety culture, while overcoming a number of operational challenges in the June quarter, including unseasonal inclement weather, availability of personnel and short-term mine plan adjustments,” said Gascoyne MD and CEO Richard Hay. During the quarter under review, Gascoyne inked a binding agreement to acquire Firefly Resources and consolidated ownership of shallow, higher-grade gold deposits as well as a large exploration package within trucking distance of Dalgaranga.
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He, however, added: “When it comes to safety matters you credit it to NCAA and AIB-N. NCAA has oversight responsibility and AIB-N investigates serious incidents and accidents and makes recommendation to NCAA, which implements those recommendations. So, possible accidents are averted with the implementation of AIB-N recommendations.
“This is why it is important that the two agencies are working together. And that is why we have independent AIB-N so that it would be free to carry out investigations and come up with safety recommendations.
“Also, airlines have come to realise the huge cost of having an accident so they have also imbibed the safety culture and ensure that they operate safety and also abide by the standard set by the regulatory authority, which oversights their activities,” Olateru said.
The Federal Aviation Administration today grounded Boeing 737 flights run by local cargo airline Transair.
It’s been investigating maintenance and safety issues with the carrier since the fall. The FAA says the suspension is not related to the crash of Transair Flight 810 off Ewa Beach on July 2nd.
The suspension, however, doesn’t prevent the carrier from flying completely.
Transair owner Teimour Riahi has two separate businesses – Rhoades Aviation holds the FAA license for 737s which are grounded. Trans Executive Airways has a license for smaller turboprop planes known as Short 360s and the FAA says those are still allowed to fly. Some former Transair employees are not happy about that.
“The company would routinely have us fly aircraft that were broken for long periods of time,” said one former pilot.
After a Transair plane lost both of its engines and crashed into the ocean, some former employees told KITV4 they weren’t surprised. They blame the company’s disregard for safety protocols.
It is the same issue that this current FAA suspension addresses – citing Transair with deficiencies in maintenance and safety practices.
The employees asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, but each one described a culture of complacency and lack of accountability at Transair.
“There’s zero safety culture… Spend as little money as possible, get the most out of these aircraft,” one pilot said. “When they start digging into the maintenance records of these aircraft, they’re going to find that corners were cut, that inspections were not done.”
Some employees were relieved to see the suspension of the 737s, but worry pilots are risking their lives flying the smaller planes.
Practical steps are being taken to promote food safety culture in Sindh, the provincial food minister has said. Hari Ram Kishori Lal is also the chairman of the Sindh Food Authority (SFA).
During the SFA’s seventh board meeting he chaired on Thursday, it was decided that a grievance redressal committee headed by the food secretary will be formed to expedite the hearing of complaints against the authority, simplify the process of issuing licences and ensure the provision of minimum wages.
Lal warned all the officials that any negligence caused by them will not be tolerated at all, stressing that the rules and regulations of the SFA must be complied with as soon as possible.
SFA Director General presented the budget for the financial year 2021-2022 that amounts to Rs632.1 million, which was unanimously approved by the board. Briefing the meeting, the DG said that the SFA had collected around Rs188 million in revenue until June 30.