Learning from Best Practice: Contextualisation of Regulatory Principles in the Evolving Upstream Health and Safety Regulation Sphere in Ghana, with Hindsight from the United States of America Outer Continental Shelf and the United Kingdom Continental Shelf
Article from: OGEL 3 (2021), in Health & Safety
Abstract
This paper analyses the existing regulatory framework in Ghana in terms both of the architecture and of the orientation of health and safety regulation. As regards the regulatory architecture, it concludes that it is characterised by fragmented agencies under piecemeal legislation. This has resulted in regulatory overlap and lacunae. Also, the regulatory agencies including the emerging upstream regulator are saddled with conflicting missions of resource exploitation and oversight of health and safety. It is further demonstrated that these agencies lack decision making ...