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Occupational Health And Safety As Determinants Of Employee’s Productivity
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Labour
is one of the vital resources required for high level productivity at
both organizational and national level. Without labour, other factors of
production like capital, machines and land may remain passive. This is
so because it is labour that put other factors into effective use.
Perhaps, this explains why labour is often held responsible for whatever
goes wrong in the production process. Suffice it to say that without
efficient labour, high level productivity particularly in the
manufacturing sector may be elusive. It however requires a sound health
and well safeguarded working environment to have an effective and
efficient workforce that is highly productive and capable of
accomplishing the corporate goals of organization.
In view of the
central and critical role played by labour in the economic growth and
survival of organizations. It becomes imperative for employer of labour
especially in the organized private sector to ensure that the health and
safety of their employees are given adequate attention.
It is
however noteworthy that in Nigeria industrial relations practice,
emphasis is placed almost exclusively on issues relating to the
formation and functioning of trade unions, employers' association and
the promotion and settlement of collective disputes, while the issues of
safety and health of workers are relegated to the background and
therefore regarded as peripheral to industrial relations practice
(Yesufu, 2000)
The above perception of industrial relations
practitioners in Nigeria is parochial because the issues of safety and
health on the fundamental human element in the workplace, without which
no organization or nation can grow or survive. For instance, the rate of
industrial accident in an organization is often used as the index of
its level of inefficiency; therefore, any organization which is prone to
high industrial accident probably due to absence of adequate safety
measure is likely to suffer high labour turnover, absenteeism, low
productivity, high labour cost and reduced profitability.
In the same
way, an organization that could not maintain the health of its workers
is likely to face the problem of weak, feeble and unproductive
workforce. It is therefore important that as a country advances in
industrialization, issues of health and safety especially in the
manufacturing sector, which is the real sector that determines the
economic growth and development of a nation, should be given a priority.
It is against this backdrop that this study investigated the influence
of occupational health and safety on employee productivity in
manufacturing sector in Ogun State, Nigeria.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined occupational health and safety as determinants of employees' productivity, using NESTLE NIGERIA PLC, Agbara office as a case study.The study employed descriptive survey research method as the research design.A sample size of 220 respondents was selected applying purposive sampling method. Questionnaire was the major instrument used to collect data, the reliability co-efficient of the instrument was 0.86. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. ... Continue reading---
