Employers' Contribution Towards Health and Safety Compliance
- Authors: Mustapha, Zakari , Aigbavboa, Clinton , Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Compliance , Contribution , Health and safety
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/87903 , uj:19641 , Citation: Mustapha, Z., Aigbavboa, C. & Thwala, W.D. 2015. Employers' Contribution Towards Health and Safety Compliance.
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Impact of Health and Safety regulations on Small and Medium‐ Sized Enterprise contractors in Ghana
- Authors: Mustapha, Zakari , Aigbavboa, Clinton , Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Health and safety , Measurement variables , SMEs contractors
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/73639 , uj:18436 , Citation: Mustapha, Z., Aigbavboa, C. & Thwala, W.D. 2015. Impact of Health and Safety regulations on Small and Medium‐ Sized Enterprise contractors in Ghana.
- Description: Abstract: Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practices of Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprise (SMEs) contractors in Ghana is at an alarming state. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact based on the given measurement variables from literature. The study adopted Delphi survey method to collect data from experts (construction professionals and academics) through email. Rating of the variables by the experts were based on either the impact was considered to be very high or high. Microsoft EXCEL, spread‐sheet software was used in the data analysis. Four variable reached high degree on consesus, out of the twelve measurement variables. Only three measuement variable reached high degree of consensus under the interquatile deviation.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises contractors' health and safety performance
- Authors: Mustapha, Zakari , Aigbavboa, Clinton , Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Small business , Health and safety
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/213934 , uj:21215 , Citation: Mustapha, Z., Aigbavboa, C & Thwala, W.D. 2016. Small and medium-sized enterprises contractors' health and safety performance
- Description: Abstract: Small and Medium Sized-Enterprise (SMEs) contractors form the bulk, by number, of companies in each industry. SMEs differ significantly from large firms, and these factors affect their compliance level. The study aims to assess the SMEs contractors Health and Safety (H&S) performance in the construction industry. Delphi survey was used for the study. Experts were asked to rate the impact of other factors in predicting SMEs contractors compliance with H&S regulations in Ghana. The rating were based on either the impact was considered to be very high or high. Microsoft EXCEL to analyse the data collected. The output from the analysis was a set of descriptive statistics such as means, median, standard deviations and derivatives of these statistics. The findings from the study shows that changes in company structure, changes in ownership at various stages of growth, lack of H&S experts and short track records of H&S regulations were rated by the experts among the factors that affect the SMEs contractors H&S performance.
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