Ghana Employers’ Association reiterates commitment to promoting sustainable safety culture

Mr. Alex Frimpong, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) has reiterated the organisation’s commitment to contribute towards the transformation of Ghana’s Occupational, Safety and Health (OSH) landscape that ensures the safety of Ghanaian workers. The OSH is generally defined as the science of the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards arising in or … Read more

Traditional ruler calls on chiefs, queens to frontline ‘galamsey’ fight  

A traditional ruler has called on chiefs and queens to spearhead the fight against illegal mining to save the nation’s water bodies and forest resources. Nana Takyi Abeam, the Dwantoahene (sub-chief) of the Sunyani Traditional Council, it would be extremely difficult for the government alone to shoulder the responsibility towards fighting the ‘galamsey’ menace without … Read more

Dying waters, dying fisheries: the unseen cost of galamsey on Ghana’s fisheries sector

The images?are?haunting: a string of viral videos?shared widely across social media shows murky, brown sludge gushing from inland rivers into the sea, choking the once-pristine coastline, with schools of fish seen struggling against the suffocating filth, gasping for survival in a dying ecosystem. What is the source of this cruelty to the fish? Illegal mining, … Read more

Electrochem redistributes 1000-acre concession to local salt miners

Electrochem Ghana Limited, a Ghanaian salt mining company operating on the Ada Songhor Lagoon, has begun to redistribute 1,000 acres of its concession to indigenes through its outgrower scheme. Launched in August this year and supervised by the Minerals Commission, the scheme allows registered local miners to construct salt pans and mine on designated portions … Read more