ANALYSING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ON HUMAN RE-SOURCE TRAINING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Case Study: VRA Ghana

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current trend in occupational health and safety and its effect on human resource training and to propose a recommendation for future reforms. The practice of occupational health and safety policies in organizations in developing countries is not effective leading to high risks at the workplaces. Some of these ineffective practices are caused as a result of imperfect knowledge of workers on OHS, inadequate training, and poor policy implementation and monitoring. To address these issues, the responsibility of the employer and the employees, as well OHS policy have to be understood. The study uses a qualitative method to gather the view of workers on occupational health and safety and HR training and its effect on employee performance. The researcher collected and presented the data through the use of questionnaire and interview in ascertaining the facts in support of the problem statement. The presentation and analysis were analytical with some tables support. The study revealed some factors that are supposed to be of grave concern on occupational health and safety and HR training; inadequate HR training, little or no knowledge of OHS at work, unclear definition of employer and employees responsibilities, poor OHS policy implementation and monitoring are the few problems discovered. The study recommends that government must set up an institution solely responsible for occupational health and safety that will ensure implementation and monitoring of policy. The workers should be made aware of OHS at all times, and proper training is given.