By Kodjo Adams
Accra, Oct. 17, GNA- Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, Ministry of Labour, Jobs and Employment, says the design of the Safety and Compliance Monitoring App will enhance safety at workplaces.
The Minister said the App was more than a piece of software but an instrument of transparency, speed and accountability in protecting workers.
Dr Pelpuo said this in Accra at the national stakeholders meeting on the health, safety and compliance App in Accra.
The meeting explained in detail the features of the App to participants for better comprehension.
The App, developed by the National Taskforce on Inspections and Compliance, is an innovative digital platform designed to track and monitor field inspection activities across the country.
The App ensures transparency, accountability, and operational efficiency in labour inspections, workplace safety enforcement, and compliance monitoring.
“The launch of this act is a call to partnership. Success rests on coordinated action, effective law, capable institutions, trained inspectors, responsible employers, empowered workers and supportive ministries,” he said.
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Dr Pelpuo expressed the government’s commitment to reset and transform how Ghana enforces labour standards, protect workers, mobilise domestic resources and deliver the jobs and development for the citizenry.
“Let us make it a national instrument for safer workplaces, fairer markets and a stronger Ghana,” the Minister said.
Global evidence and best practices show that digital inspection tools increase the reach and efficiency of inspectorates, improve targeting of enforcement action and generate richer data sets for policymaking.
Dr Pelpuo said the International Labour Organization has long advocated for harnessing digital tools to strengthen labour inspection and formalisation.
Careful inspection of such technologies, he
stressed, improves targeting and documentation of inspections and promotes better coordination across agencies.
Brigadier General Daniel Mishio (Rtd), Technical Advisor to the Taskforce, said the App helped to capture whatever things that happened at the workplaces.
The App, he stressed, would generate revenue by ensuring that compliance was enforced.
Mr Thomas Kwadwo Boakye, Deputy Head of Operations of the Special Taskforce, said the mobile-based system allowed field inspectors to register, monitor, and verify company certifications such as fire, environmental, and health permits in real time.
He explained that the app could work both online and offline, enabling data collection in remote areas, with information later synchronised to a central database for analysis and verification by relevant agencies.
Dr Daniel Ayikwei Fosha, the National Coordinator for the Special Taskforce, recommended the institutionalisation of the digital compliance system to strengthen enforcement under the Factories, Offices and Shops Act, Labour Act, and Public Financial Management Act.
He also proposed a forensic audit of past revenue operations to address inefficiencies and promote accountability.
GNA
Edited by Christian Akorlie