Waste Management Workers’ Safety Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana
Waste Management Workers’ Safety Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana作者机构：Graduate School of Life and Earth Sciences University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Japan Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Japan
出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Protection》 (环境保护（英文）)
年 卷 期：2022年第13卷第9期
页 面：603-612页
学科分类：083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学]
主 题：COVID-19 Waste Management Worker Waste Collection Ghana Safety Protocols
摘 要：Waste management is one of urgent challenges in the world. In rapidly growing cities of developing countries like Accura, Ghana, waste collection is done without sufficient protection of workers. This situation became worse when the COVID-19 pandemic began to threaten the health and safety of waste collection workers. This paper aims to examine waste management workers’ safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. To better understand waste management workers’ safety concerns during the pandemic, we used the questionnaire survey. Our questionnaire survey was conducted among 60 waste management workers in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. The study then discusses how municipal waste management authorities can ensure safety of waste management workers during the pandemic. Our results showed that 58% of the respondents were worried about the COVID-19 pandemic, while 20% were not even sure of the existence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Besides their worry, we also found that about 40% of the respondents had access to face masks/shields at their workplace, and 30% had hand sanitizers. This paper highlights that providing more advanced safety protocols in terms of workers daily operations and safety measures will enable a safe working environment for the workers even in terms of future pandemics.
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