CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Safety management is a critical criterion for the smooth operation of any organization. If you run a company, you must ensure that your workers are protected from all types of workplace hazards at all times. Every day, an employee can be exposed to a variety of occupational hazards. As a result, as a company, you must ensure that your workplace is safe by adhering to a set of uniform rules and regulations.The working climate has a major impact on an employee's overall productivity. Employees' physical and mental well-being are negatively impacted when they are subjected to hazardous working environments. If the essence of your job necessitates your staff working in varying temperatures and being subjected to toxic substances on a regular basis, you must ensure that they are wearing protective gear at all times. It's also a good idea to provide them with proper safety equipment and teach them how to use it properly.Safety can never be overlooked, particularly in the workplace, where employee well-being is directly linked to organizational performance. As a result, if you want to increase workplace efficiency, you must make workplace safety a part of your organizational culture.Both the employer and the employees are responsible for workplace health and safety. There is no single person in charge of the health and well-being of those who enter the workplace. Instead, there are a variety of things that a group of people can do to help create or contribute to a safe and healthy environment for everyone who enters.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Today's workplace contains chemical, biochemical, and physical agents, as well as harmful ergonomic, physiological, and psychosocial influences. Individually or in complex combinations, these agents and factors endanger employees' safety and health, as well as their well-being and productivity. Depending on the region, type of economic operation, and size of the company, anywhere from 30010 to 50% of employees - and in some high-risk industries, even more than 50% - can be exposed to these hazards at levels exceeding those set by many developed countries. As a result, a large number of employees could experience negative health consequences.The need for occupational health services is evident in all countries (industrialized, newly industrialized, and developing), including the least developed, given the various health problems at work and among working people. However, depending on national and local needs and circumstances, cultural pressures, and other local factors, the types of problems can differ significantly. Occupational health and safety requirements for employees and workplaces differ depending on economic structure, industrialization stage, development status, climatic conditions, and occupational health and safety traditions.New innovations in working practices, production technologies, and work organization should therefore be expected and evaluated early enough to enable appropriate preventive measures to be taken.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To examine health hazards and the causes in working environment
2. To investigate preventive strategy for containing health hazards in working environments
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What is health hazards and what causes it in working environment?
2. What are the preventive strategy for containing health hazards in working environment?
SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This study will be of importance to employers and employees and it will serve as an awareness for preventing health hazards in working environment.it will also serve as a guide to student,scholars and researchers who would wish to carry out further research on the study
SCOPE OF STUDY
The purpose of this study is to assess entrenching preventive safety and health culture as a strategy for containing occupational safety and health hazard in working environment.and the sample respondent of this study will be the employers and staff of Julius Berger.
LIMITATION OF STUDY
Finance,time constraint and inadequate research materials were the major challenges the researcher faced during the course of this study
DEFINITION OF TERMS
HAZARD:A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would allow them, even just theoretically, to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH:Occupational safety and health (OSH), also commonly referred to as occupational health and safety (OHS), occupational health, or occupational safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at occupation.
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