Occupational safety and health practice in building construction sites in Minna.

Abstract

This study was carried out to identify the occupational safety and health practice in building construction sites in Minna. Specifically, this study determined: the level of educational safety and health knowledge of construction workers in building construction sites in Minna, the level of compliance of occupational safety and health practices of construction workers in building of construction sites in Minna and the impact of occupational safety and health knowledge and compliance among construction workers in building construction sites in Minna. Three research questions were answered and three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance to guide the study. The descriptive survey approach was used and the target population for this study was made up of architects, builders and engineers within Minna Metropolis. 28 items questionnaire were used as instrument for data collection which was analyzed according to research question. The questionnaire was validated by three experts in building technology. The reliability of the instrument was found to be 0.87 using Cronbach Alpha statistics the data collected from the respondents were analyzed using mean and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings among others include: the use of personal protective equipment by workers is paramount in the construction site, scaffoldings should be properly inspected and fix before mounting and ladders fixed and secured in position before ascending them and occupational safety and health knowledge and compliance among construction workers in building engineers or the project managers with regards to the knowledge of the causes of injuries on the building construction sites, emphasis should be given to the hazards from excavations and other sub-structural works, roof works, manual handling of block walls and the assembling of other parts of superstructures, and the use of plants and pieces of machinery since hazards from them were significantly rated high.