Fire and getting out alive
Whether an alarm sounds, an extinguisher works, an exit opens, and whether anybody on site has ever practised leaving the building.
Oyo State Safety Audit Scheme
Every building in Oyo State should be safe to walk into.
Hospitals, schools, factories, markets, hotels and public buildings across the state are examined against one safety standard, by accredited professionals, on behalf of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
The point is not the inspection. The point is that the fire door opens, the wiring does not start a fire, the chemicals are stored away from the people who work beside them, and somebody has checked.
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For your facility
What an audit leaves behind
An audit is worth having only if something changes afterwards. Five things do.
- 01
You find out what is actually wrong
Not a pass or a fail, but a specific list: this staircase, that panel, these cylinders. Written so the person who has to fix it knows what to do on Monday.
- 02
The risks are ranked, so you can start
Every finding is weighed by how likely it is to cause harm and how bad that harm would be. Few facilities can do everything at once. This tells you what to do first.
- 03
You get a plan, not a verdict
An accepted report carries a corrective action plan written for your building, with what needs doing and by when.
- 04
Somebody follows it up
The plan is not filed and forgotten. Progress against it is tracked, and the Ministry can see whether a facility acted on what it was told.
- 05
You can prove you acted
Insurers, regulators, courts and buyers all eventually ask the same question: what did you know, and what did you do about it? Your audit record answers it.
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What is examined
The things that hurt people
These are the areas an audit covers, chosen because this is where injuries, fires and long-term illness in Nigerian workplaces actually come from.
Electrical and machinery safety
Guarding on moving parts, the state of the wiring and earthing, and the condition of the equipment people stand beside every day.
Chemicals and hazardous materials
What is stored, how much, where, how it is labelled, and what happens to the people nearby if it leaks, spills or catches.
The health of the people working
Protective equipment, clean water, sanitation, noise, dust, and whether anyone has been trained to recognise what is harming them.
The surrounding community
Effluent, emissions and waste, and the neighbours, farmland and water that would be affected first if something goes wrong.
Whether safety is managed at all
Whether there is a policy, someone accountable, records that are kept, and evidence that any of it is followed when nobody is visiting.
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Where your facility stands
One scale, applied the same way everywhere
Every audited facility receives a compliance score backed by the evidence gathered on site. The same bands apply to a teaching hospital and a roadside workshop, so a score means the same thing wherever it was earned, and improvement between audits is real rather than a change of assessor.
- 0 to 49.99%Unsatisfactory
- 50 to 59.99%Moderately Satisfactory
- 60 to 69.99%Satisfactory
- 70 to 100%Highly Satisfactory
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Handled carefully
What we find about your building stays between us.
An audit report names hazards, the people exposed to them, and the failings that let them persist. In the wrong hands that is a map.
Reports are released only to the people entitled to see them, every copy is traceable to whoever received it, and access is recorded. A facility can be honest with its auditor without the findings turning up somewhere they should not be.
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Who this is for
Three people, three reasons to care
Accounts are issued by the Ministry.
If you run a facility
You get an honest account of what could hurt the people in your building, ranked so you know where to start, and a record that you acted on it.
If you carry out audits
Your findings reach the Ministry intact, with the photographs and records that support them, and your work is assessed against a published standard rather than an assessor's mood.
If you review for the Ministry
You see every facility in the state in one register, which ones have never been audited, which are failing, and which have done nothing since being told.
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Sign in to the portalGet in touch
Arranging an audit, or getting access
If your facility needs to be audited, or you hold an account and cannot sign in, contact the Ministry directly.
- Telephone
- +234 800 000 0000
- Address
- Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan Oyo State