CONSTRUCTION SAFETY TRAINING Vie E - LEARNING IN NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN ABUJA

Abstract

E – Learning is the learning ways conducted through electronic media, such as CD, auxiliary software, interactive TV. E – Learning safety and health education and training helps to protect workers and prevent property loss caused by occupational disaster. E-learning for safety training and instruction in Nigeria has not been adopted widely in the construction industry. The aim of this paper is to understand the feasibility and current state of application of e – Learning for construction safety training in the Nigeria construction industry and identify its potentials. Therefore, this paper employed interview, test, questionnaire, observation, and document analysis to investigate learning effectiveness. Case studies of five construction organization with e – learning knowledge was conducted. The five construction organizations were selected through snowball sampling techniques. Content analysis was used in other to make effective inference from document content. Significant numbers of people do not have adequate internet services at the moment. Also small organization hurdles includes high quality online safety training services as it is expensive to implement and maintain. It is clear that such IT based e-learning is suitable for many aspects of safety training either as a standalone tool or in a blended approach, but more effort is required to fully utilize its potential. If e-learning is to succeed across the construction industry, there is need to assist mall and medium size companies to access site induction and task specific online training materials.