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Occupational Safety And Health Hazards Among Employees
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1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS
The various terms in the study have been operationalized systematically:
1.6.1 Occupational Hazard: Danger or hazard to workers that is inherent in a particular
Occupation.
A danger or risk inherent in certain employments or workplaces or any
condition of a job that can result in illness or injury
1.6.2
Occupational Safety: To foster a safe and healthy work environment that
also protects co-workers, family members, employers, customers and many
others who might be: affected by the workplace environment. To make
progress in occupational safety and health within the enterprise,
workers and their representatives have to cooperate with employers e.g.,
by participating in elaborating and implementing preventive programmes.
1.6.3
Factory Workers: these are people that are employed for labour services
to industries that guarantees meeting the need or objective of the
organization.
1.6.4 Efficiency: state or quality of being competent
in performance or ability to do a job with a minimum expenditure of time
and effort. Describes the extent to which time, effort or cost is well
used for the intended task or purpose. It is often used with the
specific purpose of relaying the capability of a specific application of
effort to produce a specific effort. The term "efficient" is very much
confused and misused with the term "effective".
In general,
efficiency is a measurable concept, quantitatively determined by the
ratio of output to input. Efficiency can be expressed as a result as
percentage of what ideally could be expected, hence with 100% as ideal
case.
1.6.5 Commitment: Act of pledging or promising or the state of
being so committed. Commitment is to be obligated or under the pledge to
a particular cause. In a relationship, this shows the pledge to the
other partner to have an exclusive companionship which binds the people
together.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research project tends to examine Occupational Safety and Health Hazards among Employees of Beta Glass Plc Agbara Industrial Estate, Ogun State.Survey design was employed with the use of a well structured questionnaire. Respondents were selected based on simple random sampling technique. Sample size of Eighty (80) respondents were selected from the staff of Beta Glass Plc.Three hypotheses were formulated and tested with the use of Chi-Square analysis. The analysis resulted to rejecting all ... Continue reading---
