Introduction:
General Corporate Overview
McHarma Health Consult Limited*RC 742609 is an environment-friendly and public-focused consultant firm. Incorporated in 2008 and duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission the company has a track record of good and up-to-date value-embedded service delivery that can only be rivaled or equaled by outfits seriously grounded in health disciplines
and those favorably disposed to human pathology and environmental experiments. Our consult parades a cream of professionals who are experienced and highly motivated to satisfy a wide range of needs including health and habitation needs, geophysics and surveying profiles. We have expert Town Planning and Engineering Services/ Development Officers who are poised to help solve habitation problems in line with government regulations. In coming together as a team, the firm presents prospective clients and customers with multidisciplinary professionals who have the capacity of undertaking a whole range of Environmental health Consultancy and perspectives. Special Areas: Projects in surveying, civil / structural engineering, town planning and urban development. VISION TO BECOME THE PREFERRED AND MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY
HEALTH / SANITATION OUTFIT IN ANAMBRA STATE AND BEYOND
MISSION
Deploying multi-disciplinary and inter-dependent experience gained from managing facets of clientele sanitation needs to secure clean environment and provide hassle-free healthcare services to our stakeholders and general public. The recognition of one’s limitations is the foundation of discipline. Outreach, Products and Services:
Business details: Products - Waste Management Products; Category: Waste Management & Environmental Services –Renewable Energy Solutions
McHarma Health Consult Ltd lunches with a bang –more importantly with expert service delivery. The firm has successfully executed good number of projects within and outside Anambra state. It purveys its services to Government Agencies and parastatals, Hotels and Catering Establishments, Hospitals, Bakeries, Corporate Offices, Industries, Commercial and Residential house owners including Residential Complexes, Shopping Malls, etc. The firm offers well-structured services with properly agreed retainer conditions. Because of its eco-friendly principles both clients and the public enjoy its priority-pulled engagements at yet affordably modest terms. Even as the firm’s operations are technologically aided, the activities of the PRS –Planning, Research and Statistics Department are potentially primed to step up open innovation. For quality and project timeliness, external partnering ensures customer satisfaction. Open sourcing of innovation is an essential aspect of our integrated deployments. The sense of innovation the firm seeks applies to products packaging, service delivery and more. In concrete terms the firm offers wholesome McHarma DISTINCTIVE (1) and PREMIUM (2) Sales/Service delivery potentials. The two sanitation-based products boast of pro-rata client/customer-incentive packages that ensure finest satisfaction. This is to say that while ensuring that products follow Mandatory Assessment Programme (in line with global best practices), the firm is currently on the toes for NIS/ISO -certification. McHarma Health Consult Ltd is a good corporate citizen that seeks to stimulate corporate social responsibility with efforts that will balance the bio diversity of the ecosystem. It abides by ethical practices while streamlining operations in line with NIS and IUPAC standard affirming the United Nation’s Kioto Protocol on GLOBAL WARMING and RENEWABLE ENERGY campaigns. The firm is always poised to conduct Health Audit/ Survey of establishments and can make on-the-spot analysis of exigent environmental challenges with demonstrable explanations. Scope Check-list:
Environmental consultancy [Environmental Impact Assessment –EIA]
Certification of Buildings, Sites, etc. Integrated Solid Waste Management
Waste Recycling Activities: Generation of organic fertilizer, Energy/Electricity from Waste etc. Waste treatment & Incineration Technology
Pollution Control
Water Sampling and Certification
Surveillance of Public Buildings
Purveyance of mitigation measures against communicable diseases, Fumigation [Insects & Pests Control]
Building of Environmental Data-Base & Software [House-to-house Sanitary Inspection]
MRF / Landfill Technology & Facility Management: Landscaping & Environmental Beautification
Surveillance of Base Stations & Installations
Organization of Training Programmes –Health Seminars / Workshops
Supplies of Fumigation Materials / solutions. Recycling Machinery: Supplies of Waste & Environmental Management Equipment
Office and industrial cleaning [Purveyance of Home / Office Assistants, Healthcare Attendants, etc.]
General Advocacy on Health / Sanitation needs. General Liaisons
McHarma Health Consult Ltd is professionally disposed to avail the supports of local and international organizations, agencies, groups, etc that work towards enhancing the human living potentials. The firm’s operations are connected to the right server-personnel who use proper communication equipment that guarantees a technically ubiquitous status. Staffs are inclined to working in synergy to finding solutions to environmental / occupational hazards. Contacts have been developed and our operation is linking up with the various relevant government ministries, agencies, organs and bodies [including NGOs and other independent groups] in furtherance of regulated operations. Some of these organs include
• UNO bodies –WHO, FAO, UNESCO, UNEP, UNIDO/UNDP, WMO, UN-HABITAT, IMO, UNODOC, etc.
• International Energy Agency (IEA); Rural Electrification Agency (REA)
• Federal/States Ministries of Environment
• Federal/States Ministries of Health: National Primary Health Care Agency / EPI –Expanded Programme On Immunization, Roll Back Malaria Project, NACA –National Action Against AIDS, etc.
• Ministries of Physical Planning & Urban Development/ National Environmental Standards and Regulation Enforcement Agency (NAESRA); Urban Furniture Regulatory Units (UFRU)[Lagos], etc
• Ministries of Land, Survey and Urban Planning
• Parastatals – ANSEPA, ASWAMA, ANSHDC, etc
• National Emergency Management Agency [NEMA] / National Commission for Refugees
• National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency [NOSDRA]
• National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC
• Fed Ministry of Information , Culture & Nat Orientation; National Orientation Agency [NOA]
• Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria [EHORECON]
• Waste Management Society of Nigeria [WAMASAN]
• Consumer Protection Council [CPC]
• CDC –Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• NEMA –National Energy Management Agency / Nat Biotechnology Development Agency [NBDA]
• Departments of Forestry & Reserves/ Nigeria Water Resources Institute, Kaduna {UN-NUWRSP}
• NASENI –National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure
• Federal Housing Authority (FHA)/ Regional/Town Planning Authorities
• Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO)
• Development Controls – AGIS [Abuja], ASUDEB [Anambra], etc
• Nigerian Meteorological Agency [NIMET]. *Metrological Departments & Weather Stations
• Fire Fighting Stations of the state Fire Service
• States Public Utilities Boards
• ICRC/Nigeria Red Cross Society; Departments of Social Welfare in local authorities
• Teaching / General Hospitals
• Private Health establishments
• NGOs: ERI –Emergency Response International; ERA –Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth Nigeria), Society for Family Health, etc.
• AVA – African Veterinary Association / Veterinary Control Posts
• Rural Information Technology Centres [RITC] of the National Info. Tech Dev Agency [NITDA]
• GREVC- Grass-Roots Emergency Volunteer Corps
• Maritime Guards Command of NIMASA[National Maritime Administration and Safety Agency]
• NPF –Divisional offices of the Nigeria Police Force / Fed Road Safety Corps
• Nigeria Civil Defence and Security Corps @ LCs& State Hdqrtrs, Town Unions / Vigilante Groups
McHarma Commitment
The firm declares total compliance with all stipulated guidelines and regulations guiding the practice. Operations are guided in situ by UN Protocols viz; Montreal Protocol, Vienna Convention, Kioto Protocol, “Cancún Agreements,” etc. The Oil Navigable Waters Act Cap 337 LFN (1990) addresses pollution of the sea and navigable rivers: the Firm in furthering the enforcement of the Act shall also work with Environment-focused NGOs for progressive reviews to achieve wider spillage protection for Nigeria’s coastal line, creeks and inland waterways from burst pipelines and leakages usually from fixed and floating oil platforms, ballast and from other pollutants [like those oozing from cruise ships and factory wastes]. Section 23 of EIA Decree No. 86 of 1992 listed projects and activities for mandatory EIA as projects covering;
Agriculture
Airport Construction
Drainage and Irrigation
Land Reclamation
Fisheries Forestry
Housing Industry
Chemical Petrochemical
Non-Metallic Industries
Iron and Steel Shipyards
Pulp and paper Infrastructure
Ports
Mining
Petroleum
Power Generation and Transmission
Quarries
Railways
Transportation
Resort or Recreational Development
Waste Treatment and Disposal
Water Supply
In fact, the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIA) No. 86 of 1996 makes it mandatory for proponents of all new major developmental activities to carry out impact assessment of their planned projects, so as to achieve balanced decision-making of the environmental effects in total public interest. Contractually the Firm shall facilitate enlightenment on the actions involved in project(s) construction/installation and production activities. It is instructive to state that Nigeria has ratified relevant treaties and conventions for the operation of nuclear power programme and that technical framework is being developed by the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) for the generation of electricity through nuclear power plants. Ratification means approval for the IAEA’s Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors to access the installation within the country’s jurisdiction to determine its safe applications. The International Basic Safety Standards (BSS) for Protection against Ionizing Radiation and the safety Radiation Sources define the national infrastructural requirements for radiation protection and safety. Thus, as Nigeria awaits the “Nuclear Safety Bill” by the National Assembly, the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (set up by the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act No 19 of 1995) has the responsibility for nuclear safety and radiological protection. The ACT makes it mandatory for the NNA to provide training, information and guidance on nuclear safety and radiation protection as well. Of note therefore, is that Nigeria had since 2004 operated a Nuclear Research Reactor (the NRR-1) at the Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT) Zaria. The NNRA statutorily functions by ensuring protection of life, health, property and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation, even with its acquisition of a Mobile Vehicle Based Emergency Radiation System (MOVERS) for timely emergency responses. McHarma Health Consult Ltd adopts conviction as in the following obligations:
• Encourage home-owners to design and re-design their living spaces with schemes that optimize space, making way for a beautiful, relaxing ambience with proper lighting and ventilation.
• Discourage indiscriminate dumping of refuse anywhere and unconventional disposal of human, animal and material wastes.
• Dissuade incessant burning of surrounding bushes and, refuse collections/hedges.
• Campaign against the use of irritant chemicals and herbicides that are harmful to the ecosystem
• Encourage construction of proper drainage systems including water cause channels and sewage.
• Keep mandatory house-to-house inspection of living spaces and sanitary wares; advice the use of protective /treated netting and blocking of rodent passages.
• Uphold and encourage practices that 1“Promote sustainable energy policies that spur economic growth and environmental protection in a global context – particularly in terms of reducing greenhouse-gas [GHG] emissions that contribute to climate change. Improve transparency of international markets through collection and analysis of energy data.”
• The Firm shall always 2“Support global collaboration on energy technology to secure future energy supplies and mitigate their environmental impact, including through improved energy efficiency and development and deployment of low-carbon technologies.”
• To achieve significant reduction in energy wastages [like gas flaring], CO2 and other pollutants emissions and so lessen their negative effects on man and environment. [Combustion of ethanol produces carcinogenic by-products such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde.]
• Amplify the roles of Renewable Energy by persuading recognition of its potential roles 3“…within a portfolio of low-carbon and cost-competitive energy technologies capable of responding to the emerging major challenges of climate change, energy security, and access to energy” and assist government and private sector initiatives to fast track investments in the RE technology.
• Laying enough emphasis on the dangers that Non-Renewable Energy resources like fossil fuel pose to a developing economy [especially on the blights it has caused the ecosystem more so, as our easy access to them is fast running out]. The Firm is consciously committed to using approve regulations. Regulations include using equipment and apparatuses made within engineering and ergonomic specifications, ditto;
Use of well-constructed (Heat-Resistant) incinerators
Regularly treated Refuse Dumps & Bins
Use of Government-approved [safe] Dump sites. Provisions of directives 73/23/EEC (Low Voltage), 89/336/EEC (electromagnetic compatibility) and their revisions for our equipment
Use of corresponding Power Voltage requirement –tropical (220/250) with adequate insulation. Ensuring congruency of impedance [ohms] and wattage level, etc for our apparatuses
Using CFC-free coolants when conditioning [CFC (Chlorofluorocarbon) has the capacity of depleting the ozone layer]. Only units that are pressure-tested, de-hydrated and charged with R22 refrigerant are used to condition human enclosures [living spaces]. Fully regulated and compliant Fire-fighting equipments. *Halon (for any of the several halocarbons used as fire-extinguishing agents) although thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer, is the standard in many applications where water and dry-powder extinguishers posed a threat of damage to the protected property, including computer rooms, telecommunications switches, laboratories, museums and art collections, etc. Equipment
All equipment and solutions are of high quality rating, ISO 9001 and NIS-certified. Operations personnel are fully equipped and empowered with newest millennium technologies in engineering contingencies for Geophysical surveying, Town Planning and Environmental Health requirements. Workshops are set with latest tools ditto; measuring tools, assessment meters, protective gadgets and environmental friendly chemicals. Machines and articulated vehicles are of approved ratings for ecological services and the Firm can always source and outsource competence/expertise [to and fro partners and allied companies duly registered or associated with us] where request stretch requirements. Equipment in our pool includes these:
Tipper/Trucks, Vacuum Lorries, Garbage ARM Roll, Sewer Cleaner, Garbage Press Pack, Chain saws, Poker Vi*****rs, Dumpers, Excavators, Mixers, Extruding machine, Incinerators, etc. Planned Installations:
Video Over IP [VilP] for Tele-health
@ Zonal locations to be coordinated in Nigeria
To grant Virtual/Remote Access /Surveillance anywhere within operations
1st Phase:
Awka/South East & PH/ South South
2nd Phase:
Abuja/North Central & Lagos/South West
3rd Phase
Kaduna/North West & Maiduguri/ North East
*Administration
Employment Policy
McHarma Health Consult Ltd’s policy recognizes human resources as the most important asset of an organization. Thus, the Firm is committed to the welfare, training and career development of all categories of people who take charge of its dynamic business expansion. The firm will continue this policy and shall not discriminate against anybody while seeking for talents. The Firm has a deliberate and conscious choice of keeping the health of its workforce at the front view of operation. Special arrangements are in place with recognized hospitals as retainers to provide good medical attention to employees. It is also the policy of the Firm to ensure that work environment is safe & clean. Therefore, the Firm enforces strict adherence to safety rules and occupational ethics and practices through an in-house Safety Committee. Affordable Canteen services are retained at sites of operation. Safety and Fire Drills / Refresher Courses are regularly organized to help keep employees alert and abreast of issues in Occupational First Aid/Safety. Career Development and Job Titles
There are many areas of specialization which afford employee leverage and career development. Job prospects exist in variety of settings and employment can be decided in contractual projects with plethora of self improvement opportunities. Preferences are given to Career seekers with medical and para-medical backgrounds as well as those who have had experience in plant nurseries, animal husbandries, landscape design companies, or in larger industry groups such as Land-care, Renewable Energy, Botanic gardens, Resorts, Parks & Zoos and related government departments. Employees who have horned their skill can readily be hired out to private companies like resorts, golf courses, developers of horticultural /floriculture and private farms. It is therefore easier for graduates to gain skills and certifications required to operate at a professional level in wider industry streams. Job prospects for wage-earners like Refuse squads (gangs), Ponds, Garden and Nursery Laborers are usually below average. However, employment for the cadre is expected to grow considerably at the onset of every project. Regular Skill Acquisition Short Courses are in place for the lower staff cadre since they form a large part of the firm’s contact with its clientele more so as Garden and Nursery Laborers are employed across several industries including Administrative and Support Services; Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Public Administration and Safety; and Wholesale Trade where they are expected to manifest high level of discipline. Landscape architects and gardeners have good employment opportunities and are expecting employment to grow slightly in 2014/’15. Landscape gardening and turf management are two strongly growing areas linked with increased residential and commercial construction and the development of sporting facilities. Florists’ job prospects are average, with employment expected to remain relatively steady over the next few years, as it has done over the past five. Please keep in mind that with small sectors such as floristry, employment estimates tend to fluctuate. For Conservation and Land Management our staffs will learn to manage natural resources, including flora, fauna, soils and water. Employment can be further gained in both the public and private sector areas such as forest/park/catchment management, ecotourism, environmental science research, afforestation or re-vegetation/land rehabilitation, hydrography, irrigation/ground water management and environmental education. Expertise may attract employers inclusive of Healthcare providers, the Departments of Environment and local governments. This is also the case of Specialist sectors and companies (both large and small) seeking to restore and maintain natural environments (for example, mining or housing development companies, and vegetation restoration contractors). Career prospects for environmental scientists are good and expected to grow strongly. Conservation officers currently have good employment prospects and can expect the number of vacancies in their field to grow strongly over the next five to ten years. The following are the various career nomenclatures and job titles in the McHarma Health Consult Ltd employment‘s kitty:
Arborist
Biochemist
Botanist
Conservation and Land Management Officer
Chemical Engineer
Development Specialist
Drivers –Trucks, Vans, Project Vehicles,
Environmental Consultant
Environmental Officer
Environmental Planner
Environmental Scientist
Environmental Research Assistant
Epidemiologist
Florist
Flower Grower
Flower Production
Fumigation Technician
Gardener
Geologist
Golf Course Manager
Greens-keeper
Health Officer
Horticultural Consultant
Horticultural Sales Person
Horticulture Teacher
Landscape Contractor
Landscape Designer
Landscaper
Land-care Worker
Medical Laboratory Technician
Meteorologist
Nursery Wholesaler
Occupational Health Officer
Operator –Diesel Engines, Mowers, Excavators, Forklifts, Waste Recycling Plants, etc
Operations Manager
Parks and Gardens Manager
Pest / Vector Control Officer
Plant Propagato Plumber
Production Nursery Manager
Production Nursery Owner
Production Nursery Staff
Project Assistant
Ranger/Field Officer
Resource Manager
Retail Garden Centre Manager
Retail Nursery Manager
Retail Nursery Staff
Sanitation Inspector
Security Officers
Surveyor
Toxicologist
Turf Manager
Viticulture worker, etc. Ziregbe Ngozi, B.sc (Hons) Econs
Head, Marketing/Sales
2. Engr Kenechukwu Ifenweobi, B.Eng [Metallurgy]
Materials Engineer [Head of Ergonomics]
3. Nkwocha Nkechi Joy, OND, HND [Acctcy]
Finance/Admin Officer
4. Aniekwe Ogechukwu MaryAnn, BA (Ed) [English & Literature]
Community Relations Officer
5. Jude Uchenna Chieme, HND [Architecture]
Building Designs Officer
6. Pest / Vector Control Officers –Four (4) Employees
7. Project Assistants –Three (3) Employees
8. Refuse Gangs – Five (5) Employees
9. Site Officers – Four (4) Employees
Recreation
Apart from paid Annual Vacations, staffs are encouraged to take on Sports as a premise of making appropriate use of one’s natural gifts of self healing. It is our belief that we can achieve the following for staff and stakeholders:
• Enhancement of their Psycho-motor through regulated activities;
• Increase tolerance among people of diverse backgrounds through encouraging interaction;
• Encourage competition and thus free people from any form of social errors like Intolerance, Segregation/Racism, Discrimination and Stigmatization;
• Campaign against alcoholism and abuse of substances like drugs;
• Support individuals and organizations to showcase their talents and potentials;
• Create proper avenues of understandings and how to live better;
• Help our employees to be free from diseases;
• Help shareholders to focus more on healthy wealth, etc. Recreation facilities form the Firm’s vital tool and concrete Value Statement for it makes the public to share in our commitment towards better lifestyle and making the world a better place. All share/stakeholders should take advantage of sporting activities in the areas they domicile even as possible leisure facilities can be provided at operation sites. Employee Involvement
Training is part of an individual’s development towards achieving excellence in their daily engagements. It is therefore imperative for the Firm to retain and motivate its skilled workforce through systemic training and development. In-house trainings supplement external courses. We support Employee Self-Development schemes to enable them improve academically and professionally in their chosen careers. To ensure exchange of ideas among employees and between Mgt & Staff regular routine meetings are put in place through Joint-Consultative Committee [JCC], Briefing Sessions and Council Meetings. Team Briefing and Ad-Hoc arrangements are made for technical trouble shooting in areas that demands it. Communication Audit is regularly embarked on to stimulate and monitor levels of employee awareness on matters of interest. Training Development
McHarma Health Consult Ltd’s Training repertoires cover wide range of health and security related curricula especially in the areas of Public Sanitation, Environmental Management, Occupational First Aid/Safety, etc. Some of these courses are:
*ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION & FOOD HYGIENE IN THE INDUSTRY
*THE IMPERATIVES OF PERSONAL SAFETY,
*HEALTH AT WORKPLACE
*OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY: PROTECTIVE CLOTHING & OTHER GADGETS
*EFFECTS OF WORK ON HEALTH AND HEALTH ON WORK
*INDUSTRIAL SAFETY: ACCIDENTS –TYPES, CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND PREVENTION
*BASIC EMERGENCY RESPONSE STRATEGIES / FIRST AID IN THE HOME AND WORKPLACE
*THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUALS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT / DISPOSAL *ENVIRONMENT-DEPLETING AGENTS AND HARMFUL CHEMICALS: EFFECTS ON MAN AND NATURE
*OIL SPILLAGE IN NIGERIA: RIGHT ACTION/REACTION
*RECYCLING AND ENERGY-CREATION THROUGH WASTE – A POWER-POINT ENLIGHTENING CLASS
* POLLUTION AND MAN: ISSUES
*FIRE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT
*ILLICIT RELATIONSHIPS & HARMFUL HABITS
*SANITATION: ROLE OF HEALTH-WORKERS
*WASTE-TO-WEALTH: IMPERATIVES
