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Abstract

In general, the construction industry is one of the world’s occupational settings that has high incidents of fatalities and injury rates. Developing countries, Ghana inclusive are faced with much more challenges to effective management of occupational health and safety due to the increasing rate of industrialization and weak occupational health and safety framework. The study aims to investigate the challenges faced by the regulatory authorities. The study adopted a quantitative approach and collect data using a survey. The findings indicated that Regulatory Institutions (RIs) faced challenges like; a lack of comprehensive national OHS policy, lack of effective supervision and inability to prosecute companies who violate health and safety standards, lack of adequate resources on-site, lack of logistics, and lack of a well-defined framework for regulating health and safety standards.  It is recommended that the government adequately resourced Regulatory Institutions (RIs) to effectively carry out their mandate to significantly reduce risk and accidents on construction sites.
 Keywords: Health and Safety, Compliance, Construction, Contractors, Projects, Ghana.