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Enhancing safety culture in the mining industry in Ghana

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dc.contributor.author Opoku, Felix Kwame
dc.contributor.author Kosi, Isaac
dc.contributor.author Arthur, Dominic Degraft
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-12T17:44:23Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-12T17:44:23Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9408
dc.description.abstract The paper concerns organisational safety culture and how it may be applied to reduce employee accidents in the mining industry in Ghana. A sample of 340 managerial workers of three mining companies in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality was selected using the simple random sampling technique. Data for the study was gathered using a survey questionnaire. The Structural Equation Modelling analysis technique was performed to establish the relationship between safety culture and each of the five dimensions of workplace safety (work safety, management safety practices, safety programmes, supervisor safety and co-worker safety). It was found that safety culture is a significant positive predictor of work safety (R2 = 0.039), management safety practices (R2 = 0.272), safety programmes (R2 = 0.159), co-worker safety (R2 = 0.225) and supervisor safety (R2 = 0.199). The study concluded that workplace safety can be improved by enhancing the safety culture in the mining industry in Ghana. The study recommends that in order to curb the incidence and occurrence of accidents and injuries in the mining industry in Ghana, Human Resource (HR) managers should lay more emphasis on ways that would enhance the safety culture of all employees in the industry. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ghana Journal of Development Studies en_US
dc.subject Safety Culture en_US
dc.subject Mining Industry en_US
dc.subject Workplace Safety en_US
dc.subject Industrial Accidents en_US
dc.subject Ghana en_US
dc.title Enhancing safety culture in the mining industry in Ghana en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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