Assessment of Safety Prevention Practices on Employee Performance at Hirshabelle Civil Service Commission, Somalia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue IX, September 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Assessment of Safety Prevention Practices on Employee Performance at Hirshabelle Civil Service Commission, Somalia

Warsame Muhumed Abdi¹, Jackson Ndolo Muthini^2
1School of Business and Economics, Mount Kenya University, Kenya
²School of Business and Human Resource Development, Rongo University, Kenya

Abstract: Issues of occupational safety and health have become a global concern. This has been ascribed to increasing proof of significant losses and suffering caused by unsafe environment across the various job industries. Given the amount of expenditure involved in health and safety management, action needs to be taken. The study therefore sought to establish the influence safety prevention on employee performance at Hirshabelle civil service commission in Somalia. The study was anchored on human factors theory which looks into the relationship between humans and their working environment. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The research targeted a complete population of 210 staff with a census being carried out. Questionnaires were the main primary information collection tools. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Using tables and figures, the results were presented. The findings from the correlation and regression analysis indicated that safety prevention has a positive significant effect on employee performance. The findings led to the recommendation that Hirshabelle Civil Service Commission and other organizations need to invest in implementation of safety prevention practices involving Occupational exposure, Risk awareness/ preparedness and Mitigation plans to ensure that employee’s welfare is well taken care of to trigger their positive performance.

Key Words; Safety prevention practices, human factors, Risk awareness, risk exposure, preparedness, performance

I. INTRODUCTION

There is increasing proof of major losses and suffering caused by occupational diseases and ill-health across the different industries of jobs (Friend & Kohn, 2018. Organizations all over the globe have therefore invested heavily on safety prevention mechanisms so as to create safe working environment for their employees. African countries have made efforts to address the issue of occupational health and safety practices in order to bring down the high number of accidents and fatalities reported. In fact, the ILO reported that approximately 63,900 work deaths occurred across the 54 African countries while an estimated 1,560,000 work injuries occurred (ILO, 2010). According to Nyakang’o (2009), the issue of occupational health and safety has not received sufficient attention, particularly from managers, employers, employees, trade unions, associations of employers and other stakeholders (Jilcha & Kitaw, 2017).

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