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LADOL Becomes First Company In West Africa To Get ISO 45001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 Certification.
LAGOS December 19, 2018: LADOL Free Zone’s logistics company has been awarded International Organization Standardization, ISO 9001:2015 and 45001:2018+14001:2015.
LADOL is the first company in the whole of West Africa to meet this standard. This wholly Nigerian owned company continues to break new ground and prove that Nigerian companies can lead the way and exceed international standards.
Achieving these standards took the hard work of all the staff at every level of the company and is a testament to their hard work throughout the 17 years that this company has been building and investing in infrastructure.
The certification reflects the fact that LADOL’s success is built on hard work, consistency, long-term planning and sustainable business practices – all of which are reflected in the Company’s policies and procedures. The staff and management also believe in continuous learning, training and improvement.
ISO 9001:2015 certification was achieved after a rigorous and transparent audit process conducted by Bureau Veritas while ISO 45001:2018+14001:2015 was conducted by RINA between December 10 – 14, 2018.
According to ISO, achieving 9001:2015 certification means that an organization has demonstrated the following:
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Customer focus
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Leadership
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Innovation of people
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Systematic approach to management
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Continual improvement
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Factual approach to decision-making
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Mutually beneficial supplier relations
The newest version of the ISO 9001 certification contains key updates including an emphasis on risk-based thinking to enhance the application of the process approach, improved applicability for services and increased leadership requirements.
The goal of ISO 45001 is the reduction of occupational injuries and diseases. The standard is based on OHSAS 18001, conventions and guidelines of the International Labour Organization including ILO OSH 2001, and national standards. It includes elements that are additional to BS OHSAS 18001 which it is replacing over a three-year migration period from 2018 to 2021. ISO 45001 also follows the High-Level Structure of other ISO standards like ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 which makes integration of these standards much easier.
LADOL’s Managing Director, Dr. Amy Jadesimi said: “Achieving these certifications reflects the hard work and dedication of our staff, for which I thank them all. Many staff members worked long hours, and everyone was enthusiastic and collaborative, I’m very proud of us all. This is part of a long-term plan and we will continue to improve every year exceeding international standards and very soon setting them. Nigerian companies are very well placed to take the lead in several areas, leveraging off our huge untapped and under-served market, but having strong quality and safety standards is a must for all of us. The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals also provide a template on which we can build new business policies, procedures and models, that are most likely to be highly profitable in the medium to long-term.”
Being the first company in Nigeria to achieve the new ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management certification and the only one to have both that standard, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001:2018 has placed LADOL among an elite category of companies which are internationally recognized for best practices.
How A Doctor Helped Turn A Lagos Swamp Into A Sustainable Trade Zone | Toby Shapshak | Forbes
Unlike most business people who have a doctorate, Dr Amy Jadesimi really is a doctor. The accomplished CEO of a major Nigerian logistics company – that is also the country’s first privately-developed port terminal – started her working life as a medical doctor, graduating from the prestigious Oxford University, worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in London and then did an MBA at Stanford University. She returned to Nigeria, where she became CEO of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL), in 2009.
Built out of a “disused swamp” over the last 17 years, LADOL is an industrial free zone. “Since the largest industry in Nigeria is the petroleum sector, we started off by servicing that sector. I don’t consider myself in oil and gas at the moment, but we do service oil and gas companies,” she told me.
LADOL is unique in many ways, argues Jadesimi (43). “It is 100% Nigerian-owned, the first privately developed Port Terminal and the first sustainable industrial free zone. It has taken 17 years to reach this stage of development and along the way we have overcome horrendous hurdles. However, we prevailed because of our sustainable business strategy, which offers our clients 50% cost savings, while maximizing the number of Nigerians that are employed and enabling technology transfer.”
She says LADOL is building the world’s first Sustainable Industrial Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) and is using the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “to build a unique circular ecosystem, servicing a range of industries.”
Founded by her father in 2001, it has been operational since 2006. “Every year since then the infrastructure and facilities have grown and expanded. The Zone now provides a 24/7 efficient, safe and secure location from which local and international companies, in a range of sectors can start operating immediately.”
In 2017, she says LADOL “disrupted the local oil and gas market, halving the costs of local support, and creating thousands of local jobs” and is now “focused on attracting and servicing a range of non-oil and gas companies, in sectors ranging from technology to agriculture. The sectors identified will work together to create a circular economy within the zone.”
West Africa is one of the largest under-served markets in the world with the fastest growing population, she adds. Industrial companies working in LADOL can service this market sustainably and profitably while creating tens of thousands of jobs. As the local market grows there will be higher demand for locally produced products, a larger skilled workforce and cheaper domestic operating costs, she believes.
“LADOL is a blueprint for the Sustainable Industrialisation of Africa, turning Africa’s demographic dividend into a global wealth creation.”
Asked what has been the greatest learning experience in an accomplished career, she says: “I learn new things from working at LADOL every day. Overall despite the challenges it has restored my faith in humanity and, from a business perspective, convinced me that for Africa to industrialize we must do it sustainably. When Africa does industrialize, it will create incredible wealth not just for our continent but also for the world.”
“This will require innovation, engineering and manufacturing all taking place in African countries, with African’s leading the way. That’s what LADOL is all about – build a sustainable ecosystem that will enable companies to develop new technologies and solutions for the largest growing market in the world, operating in that market.”
Jadesimi’s list of awards is as impressive as she is. She was named Young CEO of the Year by the African Leadership Forum earlier this year; a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2013; and an Archbishop Tutu Fellow in 2012, where she worked to reduce maternal mortality. She has also been named as a Rising Talent by the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society, one of 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes in 2014, and was among the Top 25 Africans to Watch by the Financial Times.
She initially studied medicine, because “I had an interest and aptitude for the sciences at school and I very much valued and enjoyed my time at medical school. Being a doctor has shaped every aspect of my life”.
She took a year off and went into investment banking but wasn’t intending to stay. “However, I learned a lot while I was working in investment banking and realized that I wanted to do something industrial, related to creating real jobs, so I stayed in banking for three years,” she says. “Goldman taught me how a range of companies work, how the markets work and prepared me to manage LADOL, a company that has a large and diverse set of departments – from security to logistics to maintenance.”
She says Stanford is a great business school for entrepreneurs and “it prepared me to work in Nigeria – where we have to be self-reliant a lot of the time. Especially working for a company like LADOL, that is achieving so many firsts.”
“We will be expanding into a range of eight sectors, from agriculture to clean technology. In part, this is because we have identified the sectors that fit best into our circular economy within the zone. In addition, we believe that commodity-rich countries, such as Nigeria, can use their natural resources to develop a diverse set of industries. LADOL is the first and largest example of that development model in action.”
President Buhari receives in audience delegation of LADOL Integrated Logistics Enterprise
Picture 1: President Buhari with L-R Gen. Man Abuja, Imam Abdulkadir, Managing Director of LADOL, Dr. Amy Jadesimi; Executive Director of LADOL, Mr. Ibrahim Aliyu; Chairman of LADOL, Mr. Oladipupo Jadesimi; SGF Boss Mustapha; Minister of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enalamah and Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu.
Picture 2: President Buhari with the Chairman of LADOL, Mr. Oladipupo Jadesimi and the Executive Director of LADOL, Ibrahim Alihu.
Picture 3: President Buhari in a one-on-one audience with the Chairman of LADOL, Oladipupo Jadesimi.
Picture 4: President Buhari with the Managing Director of LADOL, Dr. Amy Jadesimi; Executive Director of LADOL, Ibrahim Alihu and the Gen. Man LADOL Abuja, Imam Abdulkadir.
LADOL Shows Our Reforms Are Succeeding – President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration will continue to implement policies that will attract investment and spark competition in critical sectors of the economy for employment creation and growth.
The President commended LADOL for taking full advantage of the pro-business policies put in place by his administration and aimed at bringing domestic and direct foreign investment which are yielding prosperity to the people of the country.
According to President Buhari: Your competitive and aggressive activity has brought you success. I am pleased that you invested in a critical area, the oil industry, in which I have development interest. I am happy you are training Nigerians and giving them respectful jobs. What you are doing shows that whoever tries will succeed.”
The Chairman of LADOL and Chief Executive of the company, Chief Oladipupo Jadesimi said they had come to thank President Buhari for creating an enabling environment and anti-corruption regime that have enable their business to create a 10 billion Dollar investment and 50,000 new jobs.
Managing Director of the company, Dr. Amy Jadesimi informed the President that their investment had a mission to attract local and international companies that will help reduce the cost of off-shore support services.
Shell Nigerian Content Exhibition Day 2018
Picture 1 – Left to Right: Chief Information Officer, Nse Ikiddeh; Business Development Admin. Officer, Farida Dikko; Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, LADOL’s Chief Finance Officer, Jocelyn Nwaokenneya; and LADOL’s Business Development Superintendent, Olubayo Olaomo at the ongoing Shell NCD event 2018 in Lagos.
Picture 2 – Left to Right: Business Development Admin. Officer, Farida Dikko; and and LADOL’s Business Development Superintendent, Olubayo Olaomo at the ongoing Shell NCD event 2018 in Lagos.
Keynote speech at GIZ
Managing Director of LADOL, Dr. Amy Jadesimi, gave the Key Note Speech at the opening plenary of the GIZ Joint Symposium 2018 Economy & Social Development, in Bad Neuenahr, Germany on 11th September 2018.
During her speech she highlighted the fact that the global turmoil and search for new operating models is an ideal time for sustainable business models and public sector policies to flourish. There have never been as many educated, healthy connected people in the world as there are now and we have definitive evidence that sustainable operating models will outcompete all others. She encouraged the 800 people in the audience to be optimistic and use this time to support and enable sustainable private sector companies in low income, high growth countries to flourish. This will lead to massive job creation and attract the trillions of dollars needed to help us meet the United Nations 17 global goals and 169 targets.
About GIZ Symposium
800 participants – colleagues from Germany and abroad, commissioning partners and guests from different backgrounds of business, politics and civil society gathered in Bad Neuenahr to consider the main theme of ‘Globalisation Revisited’.
About GIZ
The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH or GIZ in short (English: German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH) is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of international development cooperation. GIZ mainly implements technical cooperation projects of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), its main commissioning party, although it also works with the private sector and other national and supranational government organizations (but usually not with non-governmental organizations) on a public benefit basis. In its activities GIZ seeks to follow the paradigm of sustainable development, which aims at balancing economic development with social inclusion and environmental protection. GIZ offers consulting and capacity building services in a wide range of areas, including management consulting, rural development, sustainable infrastructure, security and peace-building, social development, governance and democracy, environment and climate change, and economic development and employment.
GIZ was established on January 1, 2011, through the merger of three German international development organizations: the Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED), the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt). GIZ is one of the world’s largest development agencies, with a business volume in excess of EUR2.4 billion in 2016 as well as 19,506 employees spread over more than 120 countries. Additionally, in cooperation with the German Federal Employment Agency, GIZ operates the Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM), an agency specialized on international cooperation activities related to global labour mobility.
Read media coverage below
Egina FPSO Sails Away
Egina FPSO, first FPSO to complete fabrication and integration in NIGERIA – launched from LADOL 05:00am Sunday 26 August 2018
Nicholas Terraz, managing director, Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria, Ahmadu-Kida Musa, deputy managing director, deep water, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria, Dr. Amy Jadesimi, managing director, Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL), and executives from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI-MCI) were present during the sail away.
The FPSO will arrive in three days’ time at the Egina oilfield located in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 130, which is being developed at the cost of $16 billion by the French oil major, Total.
Read media coverage of the sail away below.
Egina FPSO sails away to its final location offshore Nigeria
Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo visiting LADOL
His Excellency Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo visited at LADOL Free Zone on Friday 10th August 2018. The visit highlighted the important contributions indigenous private companies make to the Nigerian economy.
Watch a video clip from Channels TV here
MD LADOL, Dr. Amy Jadesimi, welcomes His Excellency Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to the free zone.
MD of Nigerian Ports Authority Hadiza BalaUsman and His Excellency Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo – the visit highlighted the important contributions indigenous private companies make to the Nigerian economy
His Excellency Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo with young staff members of LADOL celebrating the success of Ease of Doing Business and the landmark achievements of LADOL.
Dr. Amy Jadesimi, Mrs. Laure Beaufils, Hon. Aesha Aabubakar, and Hadiza BalaUsman- Celebrating women leading men and the strategic economic importance of LADOL Free Zone.
Media coverage of the visit can be accessed on the following links.
Osinbajo: Success of $16bn Egina Project, Proof of FG’s Commitment to Economy
Why Nigeria’s economic revival must be private sector driven – Osinbajo
Monopoly, bureaucracy inimical to Nigeria’s growth, says Osinbajo
Petroleum sector, economy threatened by corruption – Osinbajo
https://leadership.ng/2018/08/13/osinbajo-local-content-responsible-for-16bn-egina-fpso-success/
Business Forum Calls for Responsible Practices to Achieve SDGs
The third annual SDG Business Forum has highlighted ways to communicate with and engage SMEs, the value of local-level partnerships to accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda, and a range of new tools to guide the business community in its efforts.
UN Global Compact CEO and Executive Director Lise Kingo said the private sector is “the fuel that can accelerate sustainable development” at the national and local levels.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed highlighted “responsible business” as one of the most powerful contributions companies can make to the 2030 Agenda.
Nigeria Annual International Conference And Exhibtion
MD LADOL joined a distinguished panel of speakers on the 1st Panel Session at the SPE Conference Yesterday.
Speaking on ‘Diversification of the Nigerian Economy’. Dr Jadesimi commented “to grow our economy we need millions of indigenous SMEs and thousands of large Nigerian companies, NIGERIA is the most attractive market in the world today for local companies that want to add value. Provided the government continues to maintain a level playing field these local companies will grow and create opportunities in which international companies can invest – this is one of the keys to sustainable industrialisation and double digit GDP growth of our country.”
Most Influential People of African Descent
It is a great pleasure to announce that our CEO, Dr. Amy Jadesimi, has been recognized as one of the Most Influential People of African Descent (Under 40) Worldwide. This prestigious accolade is in support of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (UN IDPAD).
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