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| Pictures from AFI Trainings (Introductory classes and Special Practical Sessions) |
Practices, processes and procedures designed and adopted to ensure safe and healthy work environment are referred to as Occupational Safety and Hazard Management Tools.
Occupational Safety and Hazards, are in some quarters referred to by its short form OSH.
The African Film Institute (AFI), which has an operational base in the serene city of Jos, the Plateau state capital, located in the North central part of Nigeria, is passionate about Occupational Safety and Hazards, particularly, in the Film Industry.
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| Special Practical Session on a professional Film set, AFI exposed its Trainees |
The institute is doing things it considers positive, supportive and impact driven to ensure that knowledge promotion and awareness creation about Occupational Safety and Hazards are of top priority in the agenda of already Film Makers, would be Film Makers, and numerous other Film industry practitioners and stakeholders.
Beyond efforts at knowledge promotion and awareness creation, orientation and sensitization about OSH, the African Film Institute has enriched its curriculum and expanded the training manual of most of the institutions it is collaborating with in the recent time, adding in particular, the teaching of OSH into their Programme and inculcating the OSH consciousness in their staff.
Equally notable, specifically, is the fact that the AFI is working with reputable and credible practitioners in the field of OSH, and engaging highly skilled individuals as resource persons (consultants, training facilitators, trainers and coaches), for its skills Acquisition training programmes.
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| Power of collaboration and Networking by AFI. Picture from a professional set that trainees got exposed to by AFI) |
In addition to the above, is the efforts, constantly, by the institute to increase the the skill of the participants of its programmes, to develop in them the consciousness that knowing is good, but doing is better and impacting is best.
A peep into the activities of the AFI in Jos, Plateau state, in recent time, indicate that over 300 trainees, male and female, youth and adult, undergraduates, graduates and Post-graduates, some of them employed and some unemployed, are currently undergoing 6 months hands on training in Film Making and Creative Media Production skills.
The trainees have gone through different, rigorous sessions of class teachings and Special Practical Sessions designed by the AFI to build and deepen their capacity: skill, knowledge and understanding of the act and science of film making, as well as widen their knowledge and awareness base on the concept of Occupational Safety and Hazards.
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Participation in series of Special Practical Sessions, with different activities that provided opportunities for the group of AFI, Jos, Plateau state trainees to get exposed to real life situations, incidences and challenges with direct bearing on the concept of occupational safety and hazards is a critical component of the AFI Programme.
The programmes were created by the AFI, but achieved through collaborations, and networking arrangements between the institute and other institutions. These collaborations and networks enabled the institute as the designer of the project to implement them, with the trainees as core participants and beneficiaries.
Your favourite Platform, Scoreline will be sharing field experiences the Jos City AFI trainees embarked on, in their on-going 6 months Skills Acquisition training in Film Making and Creative Media Production.
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| Picture from the same set |
Among the experiences is how the AFI trainees in the City of Jos, Plateau state, deployed lessons learnt during class sessions on occupational safety and hazards to save lives.
Nnabugwu Chizoba
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Click the link below to read the previous publication on Occupational Safety and Hazards (OSH).
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