Occupational and Environmental Health Effects of Informal Electronic Waste Recycling - A Focus on Agbogbloshie, Ghana.
Julius Najah FobilPriscillah AbotsiAugustine Appah AcquahJohn Arko-MensahClive D'SouzaBernard J MartinPublished in: Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). Volume IV, Healthcare and Healthy Work. International Ergonomics Association. Congress (2021)
The unregulated and unorganized structure of informal electronic waste recycling worksites exposes workers to numerous occupational hazards. This context also presents research challenges in collecting exposure data to establish linkages with adverse health effects and development of risk-mitigating strategies. This paper presents some findings from a 5-year multinational and multi-institutional collaboration of academic and government partners, which documented extensive occupational and environmental health conditions at the Agbogbloshie electronic waste site in central Accra, Ghana.