FACTORY FLOOR · Lagos
“For twelve years I worked with machines I couldn't read the warnings on. The first poster I actually understood, I cried.”
Chinedu
Textile operator · 41
Live project · 2023 — PresentA workplace safety initiative
Funded by the Korea Safety Health Environment Foundation. Built for factories, construction sites & markets where safety manuals never arrived.
Nobody should
die to earn
a living.
Region
Africa
Country
Nigeria
Workplaces
10+ sites
Focus
Occupational health & safety
01 / The Premise
The knowledge that keeps you alive shouldn't be locked behind a language you don't read.
The WorkSafe Toolkit is a comprehensive workplace safety initiative built for the workers the manuals forgot. Across Nigeria's factories, construction sites, and open-air markets, we create safety education that actually lands — in the languages people speak, at the literacy level they read, on the channels they already use.
We don't drop a PDF and leave. We print, post, film, broadcast, and show up. Multimedia tools meet social campaigns meet boots-on-the-ground engagement, so safety becomes a culture — not a compliance poster peeling off a wall.
10+
Workplaces with direct worker-facing awareness campaigns. And counting.
01.5 / The Beginning
JAN 2022BODIJAIBADAN
We started in an abattoir.
The floor kept teaching us.
How it began
A team came together in Bodija, Ibadan — occupational health specialists, public health researchers, workplace safety professionals. Three of us had supervised abattoirs directly. One shared goal held the group: fewer preventable injuries in the sectors most people would rather not look at.
How it grew
Then we kept looking. Informal markets. Construction sites. Manufacturing floors. Warehouses. The same hazards, the same absence of structured training, the same workers paying the price. The Toolkit was born from that widening lens — a set of materials built for every worker the old frameworks forgot.
FROMAbattoir safety · Ibadan · 2022
↓
TOFactories · Construction · Markets · Warehouses · Nationwide
02 / The Work
Four moves. One outcome: workers who go home.
01
Materials that actually get read
Multilingual posters, infographics, videos, and booklets — engineered so a worker with limited literacy still gets the message that keeps them alive. No jargon. No acronyms. No slide decks.
02
A platform, not a PDF graveyard
An online home where safety resources are free, findable, and formatted for humans. No paywalls. No sign-ups. No bureaucratic detours between a worker and the thing that saves them.
03
Showing up, in person
Physical awareness campaigns across at least 10 workplaces — because a poster on a wall is one thing, and a conversation on the factory floor is another. Presence is the lesson.
04
The message, everywhere the phone is
Digital outreach that keeps safety in the feed. Short-form, shareable, unignorable — safety messaging that travels the same channels gossip, politics, and football do.
03 / The Lens
Focus Areas
Workplace SafetyOccupational Health & SafetyHealth EducationOn-site OutreachMedia Engagement
Approaches
Community EngagementMedia Campaign
We work where the workers are — and we speak their language, literally and otherwise.
04 / The Ground
We start where the need is urgent & the materials are missing.
Nigeria's industrial and informal workforce is vast, vital, and chronically under-served by existing safety infrastructure. That's where the toolkit begins — and that's where the lessons that scale everywhere else are learned first.
RegionAfrica
CountryNigeria
SectorsFactory · Construction · Market
PhaseActive · 2025–
Voices from the floor.
Featured stories & perspectivesCONSTRUCTION · Abuja
“The safety briefing used to be a paper nobody signed. Now the team runs the briefing themselves. That shift — that's the toolkit.”
Amina
Site supervisor · 34
MARKET · Ibadan
“We told them traders don't do training. They came anyway. They spoke Yoruba. They stayed. Now every stall has the chart on the wall.”
Babatunde
Market association lead · 52
05 / The People
The humans behind the work.
AO
Asaolu Oluwadara
Senior Programs Officer · Infectious Diseases
Strategy, partnerships, and the hard work of turning research into tools a worker can hold.
MA
Miracle Adesina
Country Coordinator · Nigeria
On-the-ground lead — makes sure every poster, every workshop, every campaign lands in the right hands, in the right tongue.
