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Statement
Of The Problem Ignorance and/or negligence are the two most
dangerous factors that can affect anything, person, or situation. The
situation in our university hostels, as earlier stated, is nothing to
write home about. The hostels are no longer safe for living. It is in
the hostels that many students contract dangerous and deadly diseases,
it is in the hostels that many students are involved in varying kinds of
accidents that can cause injury, or even death. Students, and school
authorities alike are either ignorant and/or neglecting these factors in
the hostels that can cause accidents, injuries, and diseases. These
issues pose serious threat to the health and wellbeing of students, and
should be given urgent attention. Unhealthy and unsafe personal habits
and lifestyles, and unhealthy and unsafe environmental conditions are
two principal risk factors of health and safety in the general human
populace. This study intends to find out these unhealthy and unsafe
practices and environmental conditions that pose a risk to the health
and safety of hostel residents in the University of Benin. Also, to
proffer necessary solutions to this problem with the hope that it would
be adopted by stakeholders.
Purpose Of The Study
1. This study seeks to identify the major risk factors and safety hazards in university hostels.
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It also aims at making people to be more aware of the potential dangers
of these risk factors, hence effect reduction of hostel dangers.
3. To provide information on measures to take to restore the state of these hostels.
4. To identify risky habits, behaviours, and lifestyles, and risk factors in the hostel environment.
5. Ultimately, to ensure enforceable preventive measures.
Significance
Of The Study Accidents in the hostels may not always be
traumatic as those seen in other accidents like automobile or industrial
accidents, but their effects cause pain, sometimes permanent
disability, poor academic performance, economic loss, and even
death. Diseases are the order of the day in our university
hostels. Mere looking at the state of our hostels (rooms, toilets,
sports courts, bathrooms, water storage tanks, e.t.c), we need no
soothsayer to tell us that the health and safety of the average Nigerian
student is not guaranteed. Youths are enrolling into these
schools more than ever before in history, and when the housing systems
of our universities are not healthy and safe, how then can we produce a
THOROUGHLY REFINED graduate or degree holder? How can the challenge of
providing education of good quality be truly achieved in a debased and
unsanitary environment? Our university hostel buildings are
nothing to write home about. Now, I would want to appreciate the efforts
of the government and school authorities in making sure that students
are healthy and safe in their hostels, and I would not also overlook the
fact that many students are the architects of their own misfortunes
when it comes to their health and safety. Therefore, a report like this
is needed to bring to the remembrance of students, some of the health
and safety hazards and risk factors that make them prone to accidents,
injuries, illnesses, and diseases, and for some, to bring this to their
notice. It is paramount that stakeholders discover ways to
eliminate and/or avoid these risk factors (a problem this report will
solve).
Research Questions 1. What are the personal habits, and
lifestyles of students in the University of Benin hostels that pose a
risk to their health and safety? 2. What are the environmental
conditions that pose a risk to the health and safety of University of
Benin students in the hostels? 3. Does ignorance and/or negligence
on the part of students pose a risk to the health and safety of
University of Benin students in the hostels?
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study is designed to find out the risk factors in the hostels, with the opinions of University of Benin undergraduate hostel residents as a case study. In carrying out the study, one hundred and fifty (150) copies of questionnaire designed by the researcher, and approved by the supervisor of this research, were administered to one hundred and fifty (150) students randomly selected from the five (5) halls of residence in the University of Benin (thirty (30) for each hall ... Continue reading---
