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As employers continue to try to find ways to enhance safety in their facilities, it’s becoming more evident that piecemeal solutions addressing different areas of concern aren’t always as effective as intended. When an emergency occurs, each different component needs to be activated, making it more likely that a critical step ends up getting missed. This can have a significant impact on whether everyone stays safe. Organizations also are realizing that it’s not enough to simply send out an alert about an emergency. They need dynamic solutions that help them manage an incident from start to finish. That’s why many…

The Appiate Support Fund, which was set up to mobilise adequate funds to rebuild the community destroyed by a fatal explosion, has received over GHS 35 million in donations so far. This was disclosed by the Member of Parliament for Atwima-Nwabiagya, Benito Owusu-Bio, who doubles as the Chairman of the Appiate Reconstruction Implementation Committee. Mr. Owusu-Bio at a press conference said the money raised so far includes donations from individuals and corporate Institutions. “The magnanimity of Ghanaians, who graciously donated to the Fund, has helped us raise an amount of Thirty-Five Million, Eight Hundred and Eighty-Four Thousand, Four Hundred and…

Management of mining firm, Adamus Resources Limited, has said it will continue to liaise with stakeholders to ensure sustainable mining in its operational areas. The Company says more concerted efforts are being made to prevent a reoccurrence of the disturbances that led to the death of one person at Nkroful on Friday, April 1. Some individuals besieged the Essiama Police Station and damaged properties, including louver blades, windows, and windscreens of some two parked buses and a pick-up, among others. The irate youth also attacked some state institutions, according to the Police. The group’s action is said to have stemmed…

A shooting incident at Asunafo in the Kwabeng District of the Eastern Region has led to the death of a resident. According to the Eastern Regional Police Command, the incident that occurred on Friday, April 1, has left eight others with gunshot wounds. The deceased was pronounced dead upon arrival with the eight injured at the Enyirensi Government Hospital. Preliminary investigations conducted by the Police revealed that “the shooting incident occurred during a community clash between two factions over a mining activity in the town.” The culprits are currently at large. The Eastern Regional Police Command led by DCOP Mr.…

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, on Saturday called on the Esiama Divisional Police Command to acquaint himself with circumstances that led to clashes between the police and youth of Anwia and TelekuBokazo. The incident was in connection with the alleged killing of an indigene of Teleku-Bokazo, Mr Andrew Donkor, 33, and the injury of four others. The youth of Anwia and Teleku-Bokazo, in the early hours of Saturday, allegedly besieged the Esiama Police Station to demand the unconditional release and bail of their counterparts who were arrested on Adamus Mines concession at Teleku-Bokazo for engaging in…

A one-day planning meeting on strategic communication to improve road safety in Accra has ended with a call on road safety agencies to harmonise efforts and support this year’s mass media campaign to reduce road traffic injuries and deaths. The strategic planning meeting which was organised by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), and the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), sought to design communication strategies aimed at reducing road crashes and injuries in Accra and beyond. Some issues discussed during the meeting attended by participants drawn from road safety…

The Commissioner of Insurance of the National Insurance Commission (NIC), Dr Justice Ofori has joined hands with COP Francis Aboagye Nyarko, Director-General of the MTTD of the Ghana Police Service in a swoop in the Eastern Region to clamp down on vehicles carrying with them fake motor insurance policies. The sensitisation and enforcement exercise saw over 120 vehicles stopped and inspected by the two big wigs and other Senior Police Officers of the MTTD. Out of the number of vehicles checked, close to 20 were found to have been carrying fake insurance policies. The drivers of these vehicles were immediately…

The notion of complacency is one of the darlings of Safety and yet it is an explanation of nothing. No-one in safety explains what happens when people ‘lose’ concentration, ‘lose focus’ and make a mistake. The interest of Safety is always on the behaviour and outcome not on what precedes it. Indeed, there is no research or interest in human consciousness anywhere in the industry globally. If anything, the human unconscious is demonised in safety literature even though it is never mentioned specifically, except for this assumption by Safety that it knows what complacency is. Under psychedelics we can gain…

Two persons died on the spot while three others sustained serious injuries after a trailer crashed into a Toyota Hiace vehicle loaded with soaps at Gomoa Bewadze on the Kasoa Cape-Coast Highway. According to Effutu Municipal Fire Service Commander, DOIII Kwesi Hughes his men had to rush to the scene after they received a distress call at around 10 am about the accident. Narrating the incident to Joy News, the officer said that while the persons occupying the Toyota Hiace vehicle died on the spot, the trailer driver sustained serious injuries. “We had to rush them together with one of…

The story of what happened to Liberian Emmanuel Tuloe has the quality of a modern fable. The 19-year-old, dressed in a school uniform of sky blue shirt and navy shorts, looks incongruous in a class full of pupils at least six years younger than him. But the one-time primary school dropout is happy. Last year, he was struggling to earn a living as a motorbike taxi driver when he found $50,000 (£40,000) in a mix of US and Liberian notes, wrapped in a plastic bag by the side of the road. He could have easily pocketed this life-changing amount. But…