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The Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) has officially licensed and inducted 57 beneficiary-artisans under its Craftsmen Register.  This novelty is a strategic move to ensure standards and regulations in the operations of engineering technicians and craftsmen in Ghana. President of the Ghana Institution of Engineering, Prof. Charles Anum Adams India, is confident the move will wipe out quack craftsmen and go a long way to limit risks of market fires and structural-related disasters in the country. “We want to call on the government of Ghana to provide support to the GhIE to set up a professional apprenticeship scheme as a…

Key points Failure to perform an engineering survey is one of OSHA’s most frequently issued citations related to its standard on preparatory operations for demolition. The findings of the survey need to be in writing. A Job Safety Analysis, also known as a job hazard analysis or task hazard analysis, provides another way to help keep demolition workers safe. The location of a demolition project may determine whether additional measures are needed to protect adjacent structures and/or other people near the jobsite. Before a new building or home can go up, sometimes another structure has to come down. That’s where…

Key points Making connections – internally and externally – is a good place to start. “Be visible” is another piece of advice. Don’t show up only when there’s an incident, com-plaint or other type of issue. Learn how to fulfill your organization’s legal/compliance obligations under OSHA regulations and workers’ compensation rules. Go beyond “minimum compliance,” develop priorities (and track your progress), seek training if needed and work on your speaking/presenting skills, experts say. Danny Smith likes to joke that he was put in charge of safety because he didn’t run fast enough. The responsibility was handed to him more than…

Key points OSHA requires employers to provide training “in a language and vocabulary workers can understand.” “When it comes to translation or interpretation, it helps for the interpreter or translator to be familiar with the audience’s cultural background,” says Juan Zuniga, a worker/trainer for USW. Michael Flynn, coordinator of the Occupational Health Equity program at NIOSH, encourages employers “to develop their bilingual capacity within their own work-force.” If you’re a safety pro or supervisor who wants to translate training materials, signage or newsletters from English to another language – or perhaps learn some key phrases to communicate with workers –…

Several explosions hit the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, regional officials said. The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyi, said five people had been injured, and that rocket fire had hit a fuel storage facility and a factory. Lviv has so far escaped much of the shelling that has come to be a part of daily life in other parts of Ukraine. It has also become a hub for hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing other parts of the country. The alleged Russian attack came as US President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw, Poland, some 250…

If you’ve ever driven a car or ridden a motorcycle on a short-term contract, chances are you’ve participated in the gig economy. In fact, millions of adults in the UK are now participants in the system as drivers and riders, whether they’re aware of it or not. But how can you and other road users stay safe? What is the gig economy? The term ‘gig economy’ is used to describe the 1.1 million people in the UK who work in a free market system in which temporary positions are common place. The gig economy is made up of three main…

In this day and age, we have access to more information in the palms of our hands than at any other time in history. While that’s usually a great thing, it can also sometimes become a problem when the information we’re receiving and then sharing isn’t complete, is missing context, or is simply misinterpreted.

One person has been confirmed dead, following violent clashes between two groups at Bonsaso in the Tarkwa- Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region. The deceased, identified as Alhassan, sustained serious injuries and was rushed to the Tarkwa Government hospital for treatment but died on arrival. The body has been deposited at the mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination. Four others, Alhassan Issaka, 34, Awal Mohammed, 39, Issah Adama, 30, and Ransford Sarfo, 31, who sustained serious injuries are receiving treatment at the hospital. The Western Regional Police Public Affairs Officer, the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, who confirmed…

Authorities at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital have resolved to conduct a DNA test on six female bodies that were part of the Tuesday, March 22, 2022, accident at Asemasa as one body has become a source of contention. A total of nine out of the 14 burnt bodies from the Asemasa accident have so far been identified. They included; four males and five females. The Public Relations Officer at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Fred Nyankah disclosed to Citi News that due to the difficulty by families in the identification process, two families are claiming the body of one…

Perth, Australia — Around 1 out of 4 Australian workers experience ringing in the ears – called tinnitus – and those in the construction, automotive, transportation and agricultural industries may be at higher risk, results of a recent study suggest. Australian and Norwegian researchers analyzed data from the Australian Workplace Exposure Survey – Hearing, examining responses from nearly 5,000 adult workers contacted between June 2016 and March 2017. They found that 26.5% of respondents reported experiencing tinnitus, which causes an individual to perceive sound in one or both ears even though no external source of that sound exists. Of that…