Abstract
The construction industry employees all over the world experience serious injuries and deaths
due to accidents in complex high-risk systems. These incidents have been attributed to
conditions in which an employee is working or his actions that can result in human error or
an unsafe action. Adherence to safety regulations features among Small and Medium-Sized
Enterprises (SMEs) contractors’ in Ghana were confirmed through the use of a confirmatory
factor analysis. Findings from the Structural Equation Modleing (SEM) analysis confirmed
that the Rio coefficient and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient on the internal consistency were
over 0.70 criteria for acceptability. The influence of adherence to safety regulations features
on the Health and Safety (H&S) compliance was found to be statistically significant. Hence,
strong in predicting H&S compliance among SMEs contractors’. The paper makes a
significance contribution towards SMEs contractors’ adherence to safety regulations. The
paper provides a significant insight into how H&S compliance among SMEs contractors’
adherence to safety regulations could be improved.