Accra: Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, the Minister of Labour, Jobs and Employment, has announced that the newly designed Safety and Compliance Monitoring App is set to significantly enhance safety at workplaces across the country. The app promises to be more than just software; it is positioned as a vital tool for transparency, speed, and accountability in safeguarding workers.
According to Ghana News Agency, Dr Pelpuo highlighted the app's potential during a national stakeholders meeting in Accra, focused on the health, safety, and compliance app. The meeting provided participants with an in-depth understanding of the app's features to ensure its effective implementation. Developed by the National Taskforce on Inspections and Compliance, the app is a digital platform created to track and monitor field inspection activities nationwide, aiming to ensure transparency, accountability, and efficiency in labour inspections, workplace safety enforcement, and compliance monitoring.
Dr Pelpuo emphasized that the app's launch marks a call to partnership, stressing that its success depends on coordinated action, effective law, capable institutions, trained inspectors, responsible employers, empowered workers, and supportive ministries. He urged ministries to lend leadership to technical expertise and build political support, underlining the government's commitment to transforming how Ghana enforces labour standards, protects workers, mobilizes resources, and delivers jobs and development for its citizens.
The Minister also noted that global evidence and best practices indicate that digital inspection tools enhance the reach and efficiency of inspectorates, improve the targeting of enforcement actions, and generate data sets crucial for policymaking. He reiterated the International Labour Organization's advocacy for digital tools to strengthen labour inspection and formalization.
Brigadier General Daniel Mishio (Rtd), Technical Advisor to the Taskforce, stated that the app aids in capturing workplace incidents and emphasized its role in generating revenue by ensuring compliance enforcement. Mr Thomas Kwadwo Boakye, Deputy Head of Operations of the Special Taskforce, explained that the mobile-based system allows field inspectors to register, monitor, and verify company certifications in real-time, even in remote areas, with data later synchronized to a central database for analysis.
Dr Daniel Ayikwei Fosha, National Coordinator for the Special Taskforce, recommended institutionalizing the digital compliance system to strengthen enforcement under existing acts and proposed a forensic audit of past revenue operations to address inefficiencies and promote accountability.
