Occupational health and safety implementation barriers in Ghana

Abstract: The negative impact on the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) performance in Ghana has been attributed to Ghana's inability to follow the laid down requirement of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions. The purpose of the study is to examine the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) implementation barriers in Ghana and look into the existing regulations and their contribution to other sectors. The study was conducted through the use of secondary data from journals, books and internet to achieve the objective of the study. The review looked into details of the different views from different scholars about occupational health and safety (OHS) implementation barriers in Ghana. Findings from the study has shown that inadequate legal mandate has contributed to the weakness in enforcing regulations and professional standards, missing framework for a comprehensive national OHS policy and inadequate resources to OSH researches. Others are lack of inspection, training and education, lack of OHS capacity building and monitoring, lack of financial, human resource and material constraints. The study explores occupational health and safety (OHS) implementation barriers in Ghana. The study presents a strong background on currents trends in OHS, regulatory bodies, OHS implementation barriers and its improvement