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🚨 PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY 🚨

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced that Nigeria currently has no confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), following the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a reported imported case in Uganda.

🦠 Ebola Virus Disease is a severe viral illness transmitted through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated materials.

Common symptoms include:
✅Fever
✅Headache
✅Weakness
✅Muscle pain
✅Vomiting
✅Diarrhoea
✅severe cases, unexplained bleeding.

The NCDC is actively strengthening surveillance, laboratory readiness, infection prevention, and public awareness efforts across the country. Nigerians are advised to remain calm, maintain good hand hygiene, avoid misinformation, and report unusual illnesses promptly.

Stay informed through official public health channels only. Together, we can strengthen preparedness and protect public health.

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If your risk assessment is just a checklist… you’re not managing risk—you’re documenting it.

Paper doesn’t stop incidents. Decisions do.

HSE isn’t failing from lack of knowledge—
It’s failing from a lack of application.
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Most Job Hazard Analysis fail for one reason:

They are treated as documents… not live risk conversations.

A static JHA cannot control a dynamic job.

If it doesn’t evolve with the task, it becomes useless the moment work starts.

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You ticked the box—and walked away.

Mistake 15: Treating risk assessment as paperwork, not a tool to prevent harm.

This is where most systems fail.

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Everyone signed it—but no one owned it.

Mistake 14: No clear responsibility for implementing and monitoring controls.

Follow for the next mistake.

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@AdenikeOmolar11 Not true - Man biggest fear is being broke

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You did the assessment—but can’t prove it.

Mistake 13: Poor documentation that makes your risk assessment unclear, incomplete, or unusable.

Follow for the next mistake.

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You controlled the main risk—but missed the domino effect.

Mistake 12: Ignoring secondary hazards created by your control measures.

Follow for the next mistake.

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You assessed the task—but ignored the person doing it.

**Mistake 11:** Failing to consider human factors like fatigue, stress, and competence.

Follow for the next mistake.

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The job changed—but your risk assessment didn’t.

Mistake 10: Failing to review and update after changes, incidents, or new information.

Follow for the next mistake.

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You planned for the task—but not for when things go wrong.

Mistake 9: Ignoring emergency scenarios and worst-case outcomes in your assessment.

Follow for the next mistake.

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You had the controls—but no one knew about them.

Mistake 8: Failing to communicate the risk assessment to the people exposed to the risks.

Follow for the next mistake.

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Controls on paper don’t stop real-world incidents.

Mistake 7: Listing control measures without ensuring they’re actually implemented and followed.

Follow for the next mistake.

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You found the hazard—but never fixed it.

Mistake 6: Identifying risks without assigning clear controls or actions.

Follow for the next mistake.

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You rated it low risk—and that’s where it went wrong.

Mistake 5: Underestimating likelihood or severity due to familiarity or routine.

Follow for the next mistake.

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The checklist says “done”—the risk says otherwise.

Mistake 4: Copy-pasting old risk assessments without reviewing current conditions.

Follow for the next mistake.

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The hazard you didn’t see is the one that hurts you.

Mistake 3: Focusing only on obvious hazards while ignoring hidden or indirect risks.

Follow for the next mistake.

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