TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of content
CHAPTER
ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.0
Background
to the study
1.1 Statement
of the problem
1.2 Objectives
of the study
1.3 Research
questions
1.4 Research
hypotheses
1.5 Significance
of study
1.6 Scope
of the study
1.7 Operational
definition of terms
CHAPTER
TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0
Introduction
2.1 Concepts
of Occupational Health and safety
2.2 Health
and safety policies and programmes
2.3 Managing
health and safety at work
2.4 The
importance of health and safety in the workplace
2.5 Benefits
of workplace health and safety
2.6 Health
and safety policies
2.7 Health
and safety audits
2.8 Safety
inspections
2.9 Occupational
health programmes
2.10 Communication
the need for better health and safety practices
2.11 Health
and safety training
2.12 Organization
health and safety
2.13 Occupational
health and employee’s productivity
2.14 Occupational
safety and employee’s productivity
CHAPTER
THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Research
design
3.2 Population
of the study
3.3 Sample
and sampling techniques
3.4 Research
instrument
3.5 Validity
and reliability of the instrument
3.6 Administration
of the instrument
3.7 Method
of data analysis
CHAPTER
FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Demographic
data of the respondents
4.2 Presentation
and testing of hypotheses
CHAPTER
FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECMMENDATION
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
References
Appendix
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Labour is one of the vital resources
required for high level productivity at both organizational and national level.
Without labour, other factors of production like capital, machines and land may
remain passive. This is so because it is labour that put other factors into
effective use. Perhaps, this explains why labour is often held responsible for
whatever goes wrong in the production process. Suffice it to say that without
efficient labour, high level productivity particularly in the manufacturing
sector may be elusive. It however requires a sound health and well safeguarded
working environment to have an effective and efficient workforce that is highly
productive and capable of accomplishing the corporate goals of organization.
In view of the central and critical
role played by labour in the economic growth and survival of organizations. It
becomes imperative for employer of labour especially in the organized private
sector to ensure that the health and safety of their employees are given
adequate attention.
It is however noteworthy that in
Nigeria industrial relations practice, emphasis is placed almost exclusively on
issues relating to the formation and functioning of trade unions, employers'
association and the promotion and settlement of collective disputes, while the
issues of safety and health of workers are relegated to the background and
therefore regarded as peripheral to industrial relations practice (Yesufu,
2000)
The above perception of industrial
relations practitioners in Nigeria is parochial because the issues of safety
and health on the fundamental human element in the workplace, without which no
organization or nation can grow or survive. For instance, the rate of
industrial accident in an organization is often used as the index of its level
of inefficiency; therefore, any organization which is prone to high industrial
accident probably due to absence of adequate safety measure is likely to suffer
high labour turnover, absenteeism, low productivity, high labour cost and
reduced profitability.
In the same way, an organization that
could not maintain the health of its workers is likely to face the problem of
weak, feeble and unproductive workforce. It is therefore important that as a
country advances in industrialization, issues of health and safety especially
in the manufacturing sector, which is the real sector that determines the
economic growth and development of a nation, should be given a priority. It is
against this backdrop that this study investigated the influence of
occupational health and safety on employee productivity in manufacturing sector
in Ogun State, Nigeria.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It has been observed that majority of
workers m the manufacturing sector are daily exposed to diverse occupational
health and safety hazards. This has impaired their health status and adversely
affected their productive capacity. In the same vein, their pruness to
industrial accidents had equally incapacitated physically some of the factory
workers, which in turn had caused a decline in their level of productivity.
Therefore, there is need to investigate empirically the relationship between
occupational health and safety and employee's productivity in the manufacturing
sector using NESTLE PLC, Agbara as a
case study.
1.2
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The major objective of this study is
to investigate the effect of occupational health and safety on employee's productivity
in the manufacturing sector.
The specific objectives are:-
i.
To find out the meaning of the concepts of
occupational health and safety.
ii.
To examine the joint effect of
occupational health and safety on employee's productivity.
iii.
To determine the relative effects of
occupational health and safety on employee's productivity.
iv.
To offer suggestions on how occupational
health and safety could be used to enhance employee's productivity.
1.3
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What
is occupational health and safety?
2. What
is the joint effect of occupational health and safety on employee's
productivity?
3. What
is the relative effect of occupational health and safety on employee's
productivity?
4. What
could be done to improve employee's productivity using occupational health and
safety?
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
Hypothesis
1
Ho: There is no significant relationship between
occupational health and employee's productivity
Hi : There is significant relationship between
occupational health and employee's productivity.
Hypothesis
2
Ho: There is no significant relationship between
occupational safety and employee's productivity.
Hi: There is significant relationship between
occupational safety and employee's productivity.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The findings of this study will help
to ameliorate the debilitating working conditions of the factory workers.
Also, it will go a long way to
enhance the performance of workers in the manufacturing sector. By extension,
the economy generally will be boosted because manufacturing sector is the real
sector of the economy.
In the same vein, the profitability
of the organizations in the manufacturing sector would be augmented. This may
lead to employment generation.
Again, the findings of this study
will add to the existing knowledge in the area of occupational health and safety
as it relates to employee's productivity.
1.6
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The focus of the study is on
occupational health and safety as it relates to employee's productivity. The
study is further confined to one organization in the manufacturing sector. The
company is Nestle Nigeria Plc, Agbara
office.
1.7
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
i.
Occupational
Health:- It is the promotion and maintenance of the highest
degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers in all
occupations.
ii.
Occupational
Safety: - It is a state of being free from harm, injuring,
death, loss, damage and pollution.
iii.
Productivity:
It is ratio or proportion of output of the commodity to the input of the factor
of production
iv.
Employee
Productivity: - It is the volume of goods and services
produced per employee within some specified unit of the year, month, week, day
or hour.
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