Assessment of Strategies for Improving Occupational Safety Culture in Ghana Cocoa Board

Assessment of Strategies for Improving Occupational Safety Culture in Ghana Cocoa Board

Isaac Kingsley Edzii

Human related mischances in high hazard businesses like Quality Control Organization (QCC) Restricted add up to a noteworthy monetary danger and acquire huge harms, causing over the top operational expenses and death toll. For instance, QCC utilizes chemicals, for example, Detia gas for fumigation, pyrethrin for misting and part of these chemicals has genuine repercussions if appropriate security measures are not considered. As per (Anon, 2011), presentation of the skin to chemicals can bring about physical inconvenience and agony, loss of work time and salary, powerlessness to perform employment or loss of occupation, restorative costs, personal satisfaction issues and social debilitations. Again substance introduction to the skin can bring about either worldly harm to the skin or perpetual wellbeing harm to the skin. Some transitory harm incorporate dry, red, broke skin, from contact with water, cleansers, gas and certain kinds of solvents. The reason for this investigation is to survey the health and safety hones and to decide the systems for enhancing security culture in QCC and furthermore to decide the level of consistence of Wellbeing and Wellbeing guidelines in QCC, Ghana COCOBOB. Polls were readied and through the straightforward arbitrary testing strategy staff and administration were chosen. Their reactions were assembled and dissected deliberately utilizing Microsoft Exceed expectations to distinguish the potential techniques expected to enhance the word related health and safety of the staff of QCC. After cautious perception of the respondents' perspectives the examination turns out with the view that Ghana COCOBOD, Takoradi has a decent security culture. Be that as it may, their security culture can be enhanced if a specific office is put aside for entirely wellbeing issues. Once more, the greater part of their security hones are as per the practices stipulated in the Ghana Work Demonstration of 2003. Be that as it may, the dedication of administration in specific zones, for example, the arrangement of satisfactory assets is brief time and the administration ought to be concerned. Again from the examinations, the introduction on security alone isn't sufficient and more instruction ought to be done on wellbeing issues.

MSc Engineering Project Management

Ghana Technology University College

January 2018

Mr. Kwadow Ankomah