ENSURE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY OF WORKERS (PAGES 24 & 49)

The President of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI), Mr Wilson Atta Krofah, has advised companies to design and implement policies to maximise the health and occupational safety of their workers.
At a seminar for representatives of companies and organisations in Tema, Mr Krofah said effects of diseases such as HIV and AIDs on production were very huge on operations of companies.
Therefore, he said, companies must make efforts to ensure the health and safety of their workers.
The seminar was organised by the Ghana Business Code (GHBC) to identify the needs and challenges of companies in their efforts to ensure occupational and health safety.
Mr Krofah expressed concern about the situation where some companies had overlooked the importance of health and occupational safety to the detriment of their workers.
He asked the participants to consider a situation where HIV and AIDS caused the death of a worker after spending huge sums of money to train him or her.
On HIV and AIDS, Mr Krofa said there was the need for companies to prevent their workforce from being infected by the pandemic and asked them not to discriminate against their HIV-infected workers.
The Manager of GHBC, Mr Johnson Oduro, stated that the Ghana Business Code project was aimed at improving the business culture to bring it at par with internationally accepted standards.
He said over 140 organisations had already signed on to the code, which was formulated in Ghana two years ago.