ATTITUDE OF WORKERS TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY PRACTICES OF COMPANIES IN KADUNA INDUSTRIAL AREA
ATTITUDE OF WORKERS TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY PRACTICES OF COMPANIES IN KADUNA INDUSTRIAL AREA
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2015-08
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HUSSEINI, Danlami
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The study is primarily focused on Workers‟ Attitudinal dimension towards promoting industrial safety. The human element of industrial safety as a concept is extremely popular topic at national and regional safety conferences. Safety professionals realize that reducing industrial accidents to below current levels requires increased attention to human factors. Most attempts to deal with the human aspects of safety have been limited in scope with little attention on the issues of nature of industrial accident, attitude of workers towards industrial safety, accident preventive measures and socio-cultural factors towards industrial safety that constitute the objectives of this study. This study was conducted at five (5) manufacturing companies in Kaduna industrial area, Nigeria. The methodology was based on the survey instrument (questionnaire), in-depth interview, and observations that were designed to achieve objectives of the study through responses (data) gathered from the field. A sample size of 300 was determined out of 768 sample frame of the study population for research instruments administration, but only 250 copies of questionnaire were retrieved with a sampling accuracy of 5 percent and confidence level of 95 percent. Stratified random sampling was used in determining sample size of study population into five strata (sections), namely: Management/Specialists, Supervisors/Foremen, Operatives/Charge hands, Clerical/secretarial, and Security/Cleaners as unit of analysis. The data were later analyzed and discussed by using percentage of distribution and statistical analysis. The result of the major findings revealed that increasing rate of workplace accidents are due to the fact that industrial safety programmes and policies were not properly implemented and monitored through work-related attitudes that cause the majority of industrial accidents and most of the workers were ignorant of the existing safety policy. This calls for a proper monitoring and supervision of job attitude towards promoting industrial safety practices at workplace
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.SC.) IN SOCIOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA-NIGERIA
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ATTITUDE,, WORKERS TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY PRACTICES,, COMPANIES,, KADUNA INDUSTRIAL AREA,