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  The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry's Director General of Aquaculture, Tb Haeru Rahayu. ( ANTARA/HO-KKP) If we continuously get support from universities, then we will have the right policies Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry collaborates with Padjadjaran University of Bandung to help realize blue economy-based aquaculture in Indonesia, as it has huge potential for maritime resources. The Ministry's Director General of Aquaculture, Tb Haeru Rahayu, explained here on Thursday that Indonesia's maritime potential is huge and can be developed by not damaging the ecosystems but rather in a sustainable manner. In a talk show, themed "Our Sea Our Life," held by Unpad, Rahayu highlighted that Indonesia's potential sea area covers 6.8 million square kilometers (sq km), while the total potential area for aquaculture development in the country reached 17.8 million hectares, including seas and brackish and freshwater. He said that In...

  The GB Health and Safety Executive has recently published a revised version of its fire safety in construction (HSG168) document. Several years in the making, the latest edition contains guidance explaining the need to eliminate and/or mitigate fire risks during the design phase. The guidance, aimed at all those working on construction projects who procure, design, develop and manage construction sites, including clients and designers, is intended to enable construction professionals to achieve good fire safety management and compliance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. It also suggests how to prevent site fires from starting and ensuring people’s safety if they do. Construction fire safety needs to be managed from the earliest stages of design and procurement and needs to address the risks both to site workers and to persons living or working in neighbouring buildings. This may mean reviewing particular construction methods, materials, or a specific...

Nigeria Road Safety has taken the centre stage to become a contemporary subject of global discourse, but the phenomenon is yet to receive the expected attention it deserves in many developing countries of the world, when compared with other national priorities. In the last two (2) decades, road traffic crashes and injuries have emerged to be a public health concern and a major issue for policy and decision all over the world. The direct and long term effects are negative on the general development of countries. From 2016 to date, Africa for instance remains the region with the highest road traffic deaths (26.6 per 100,000 populations). With its population of 1,307 billion, about 650 deaths occur on Africa’s roads thereby slowing down the Gross Domestic Product of the region as the most hit is the productive manpower of the region involving youths of 15 to 29 years. In Nigeria, the total deaths recorded from HIV/AIDS and Malaria is surpassed by the number of fata...

AFRICA IN FOCUS The marine and coastal areas along the eastern shores of Africa contain rich, biodiverse, and under-threat flora and fauna unique for their biodiversity. The region hosts pristine coral reefs, carbon-rich mangrove forests, and sheltered seagrass beds, which support an abundance of marine life including important fish species, sharks and rays, turtles, sea birds, and marine mammals. Moreover, all along the coasts of the West Indian Ocean (WIO) region, coastal communities derive their socioeconomic livelihoods from the sea and its products. Artisanal and commercial fishing is critical for food security and the economy of the over 70 million people living along the coast, as the region’s fishing contributes to  4.8 percent of the global fish catch, equivalent to about 4.5 million tons of fish per year . Marine assets in the WIO are valued conservatively at  $333 billion and provide at least $21 billion every year  to the regional economy from marine and coast...

Mentoring is “one of the most rewarding things you can do”, according to one health and safety professional, who recently spoke at Safety and Health Expo. Grant Thompson Grant Thompson, Global EHS lead at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, told delegates he had been matched with his mentor, Hugh Maxwell, Managing Director of Maxwell Safety Limited , in 2017, as part of a pilot mentoring scheme. “Since then, he’s helped me considerably in achieving my goals and continually pushed me out of my comfort zone,” he told Safety and Health Expo . Thompson said for any mentoring partnership to be successful, there needs to be that “baseline” for between mentee and mentor and he added there is no substitute for a genuine honest partnership between the two of them. “It’s also important to highlight that when you enter these partnerships, you break away from formal roles and really need to find that common ground as people.” He added the other key to a successful mentor/mentee relationship ...

Cllr Valerie Harte, MLA Liz Kimmins and MP Mickey Brady at Peter McParland Park. The Department for Infrastructure say they will erect better signage to indicate the presence of a playpark at Barley Lane in Newry following safety concerns highlighted by local political representatives. Newry City Councillor Valerie Harte along with Liz Kimmins MLA and Mickey Brady MP have recently met with DFI to highlight serious road safety concerns for children and local residents at Peter McParland Park. Cllr Harte said: “We met with a DFI engineer and some local residents at Peter McParland park to discuss the serious safety concerns that residents have for the area. “The road is an extremely busy route, with much of the traffic normally travelling at great speed past the park. “With the amount of children and others who use the facilities at the park this is a serious concern for the residents. Her colleague, Liz Kimmins MLA spoke about the outcome of the meeting “In the short term, DFI ...

A new independent body modelled on the Air, Marine and Rail Investigation Branches aims to cut UK road casualties A new independent Road Safety Investigations Branch has been announced by the Department for Transport, which will investigate incidents on the country’s roads, with a view to advising on ways to improve road safety and reduce casualties. The RSIB will have a similar remit to the long-standing Air, Marine and Rail Accident Investigation Branches in terms of providing insights into best practise, but unlike those bodies it will not send investigators to crash scenes. On the ground investigations will remain within the remit of local police forces, but the RSIB will act on reports provided and will provide a national picture that’s currently missing. The RSIB has been set-up as a response to a Roads Policing Review which highlighted the lack of any national oversight of road safety. In contrast the Air Accident Investigations Branch has been operating for more than a century,...