OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

The title on this research work is “the effect of health and safety on employee’s productivity using Cadbury Nigeria Plc as a case study. The main aim is to make research if indeed health and safety measures can be regarded as a major contributor to the growth and development of any organization. The research work is also serves as a means to identify the variables that are controllable by management which to certain degree have a direct impact on the performance.

This research is restricted or limited to planning and implementing quality management and safety culture in achieving desired performance in the construction industry. The area location of this study will be limited to selected site at Asaba, Delta State metropolis. Some of the limitations to this research study are: lack of adequate finance, time restraint etc. An overview of construction quality and safety reveals many striking similarities for these two management concept. In some cases safety is considered a part of total quality management (TQM). In the international construction scene, the inclusion of both the traditional qualities and safety efforts within a TQM system is advocated by Dias and Curado (1996). They suggest that the TQM emphasis on the customer will lead to protection of the employee who is a vital customer. They write that safety record keeping would be improved and a needed safety culture comparable to the existing quality culture would result. Quality management has increasingly been adopted by construction companies as an initiative to solve quality problems and to meet the need of final costumer ( kanji and wong, 1998). As suggested by (Oakland and Aldridge, 1995) if ever an industry needed to take up the concept of total quality management (TQM),it is the construction industry. Alfred (1988) advances the view that construction very probably promises a greater pay back for performance improvement than any other service industry because of its magni

Occupational accidents bring with them serious problems, both financial and non-financial, for employees as well as organisations. The purpose of this study was to investigate adherence to health and safety standards in a selected X-engineering outsoucing company. A quantitative survey approach was used in which a structured questionnaire was administered to a purposively selected sample composed of 165 employees from a steel processing company based in the Gauteng province. The collected data were analysed using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22.0). The results of the study confirm that employees in the selected steel processing company are satisfied with the degree of adherence to health and safety standards. Employees felt that the company has in place various rewards which are offered to employees whenever they successfully follow health and safety rules. The study further revealed that the labour union in the company participates actively in health and safety issues and that its recommendations are taken seriously by the company. Finally, employees are satisfied with the workplace surroundings in areas such as ventilation, room temperature, lighting and hygiene. Conclusions drawn from the study and recommendations are discussed.

Organization safety management is a function that hinges on the human resource department of every organization in the current realities of business life. This study looks at how safety management is used not only to promote workers well being, but as a way of increasing their efficiency towards their work and to motivate them in putting their best into their work and also to bring about all round improvement in their performance as related to productivity. This study also examines the impact of labour laws and legislation on the practices of occupational safety in the workplace and how best organizations have been adhering to the labour standards and factories Acts. A survey research method was adopted using Wempco Ltd, Lagos as a case study.