Understanding The Impact of Industrial health and Safety on Employees Performance: A Study of Selected Manufacturing Firms in Rivers State
- April 14, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: IJRISS, Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue III, March 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Nwachukwu, Precious Ikechukwu1, Akpuh, Davidson. Chioma2, Samuel, B. Irimagha3, Udeme, A.Paul4
1Department of Petroleum Marketing and Business Studies, Federal Polytechnics of Oil And Gas Bonny, Nigeria
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Polytechnics of Oil and Gas Bonny, Nigeria
3Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering, Federal Polytechnics of Oil and Gas Bonny, Nigeria
4Department of Industrial Safety and Environmental Engineering Technology, Federal Polytechnics Of Oil And Gas Bonny, Nigeria
Abstract: The issue of health and safety of employees has been a major concern in manufacturing organization recently .this paper seek to investigate the impact of industrial health and safety on employees performance. The study adopted a structured questionnaire to obtain data from 282 workers. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 was utilized for data analysis. The study made use of description analysis to analyze the demographic characteristics of the respondents while regression and Pearson correlation moment was used to analyze the hypotheses of the study. The result of the study indicates that health and safety practices, especially training have significant effect on employees’ job performance. It was concluded that employees’ low performance can be attributed to both low health and safety practices and lack of personal protecting equipment (PPE) and management commitment to health and safety programs. The four independent measures of industrial health and safety as was used in the study were found to be influencing employee’s performance. it was recommended among others that there should be constant health and safety training for both top , middle and low level staff . As this will equip the employees with health and safety culture, as no one is above accident.
Keywords: health and safety, employee’s performance, commitment.
I. INTRODUCTION
The manufacturing industry is one of the major industry that has immensely contributed to the economic development of Nigeria .In recent year , statistics have shown that the number of manufacturers has increased significantly in contrast to eighties(1980s) .The industry have become increasingly significant giving the rate of unemployment and the need for economic prosperity .
