MINISTER of Labour and Social Security, Derrick Kellier, said that training programmes have been put in place to raise awareness about health and safety issues among workers participating in the Overseas Employment Programme.

The move comes in the wake of the deaths of two farm workers from a job-related accident in Ontario, Canada in September 2010.

Kellier who spoke in the House of Representatives Tuesday, said that workers have been instructed not to undertake duties which may endanger their safety unless they are provided with the proper equipment and safety gear.

He said that the literacy level of workers is also of paramount importance in ensuring their safety and urged those persons, who wish to be part of the programme, to ensure that they prepare themselves adequately.

The minister in the meantime, said that families of the deceased farm workers have been fully compensated.

Autopsies revealed that Ralston White, a 37-year old father of two from Pike District, Manchester; and Paul Roach, 44, a married father of Milk River, Clarendon, died from environmental suffocation. They were overcome by toxic fumes while attempting to fix a malfunctioning vat on the apple cider farm where they worked.

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