Street and Market Vendors Achieve Better Occupational Health and Safety by Organizing, Networking, and Building Alliances in Accra, Ghana |
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Street & Market Vendors |
Vendors sell vegetables, grains, legumes, fish, cooked food, printed cloth, and second hand clothes. Others are hairdressers, tailors, seamstresses, and carpenters. | |
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OHS: Before |
Before the project, street and market vendors in Accra faced many occupational health and safety issues | |
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OHS: Achievements |
The Makola Market and the Ga East Traders Union realized that though it was difficult to gain better OHS individually, they could mobilize, organize, and learn as a group to achieve the following: | |
Makola Market vendors can now respond to fires more quickly because of newly purchased fire extinguishers. |
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Find Out More |
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![]() The full impact case study |
![]() Research on and resources for Accra’s street and market vendors |
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