Employees have been warned that a lack of compliance with the Safety and Health at Work Act (SHaW) could result in major losses to businesses and by extension the country.
Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo, Minister of Labour and Social Security, made the point during the official opening of Health And Safety Week activities at the Accra Beach Hotel and Spa yesterday.
The activities, co-hosted by the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), are taking place under the theme Zero in on Safety.
Byer-Suckoo said there were consequences for non-compliance with the six-month-old act.
“We will be looking at a loss of productivity both for the individual and for the organization,” she said. “That organization may actually lose a contract, may go out of business, and then Barbados too, as our national economy, may lose investments because we have seen now where we have fires in other parts of the world and people are looking to boycott factories and garment industries and other industries across the world. That is not the kind of thing we want to have happen here.” (MM)
