SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME IN MANUFACTURING FIRM USING THE NINTH MILE ENUGU AND GOLDEN GUNIEA PLC (NBPC) UMUAHIA FOR THE CASE STUDY
ABSTRACT
The research is an earnest effort to evaluate the safety programmes used by firms to find out the impact of enhanced safety management programme in Nigeria industries. To achieve a good result, the researchers made a critical evaluation of type of safety management programmes in manufacturing firm, using the EE Ninth Mile Enugu and Golden Guinea plc. (NBPCL) Umuahia for the case study.
A sample population of 89 was used to study a target population of 212 made up of 26 top management and 63 factory workers of the two government industries.
Questionnaire and personal interview were used to collect data for analysis.
The result of the protective equipment (PPE) were used, the entire industrial workers lacked safety consciousness which contributed to high rate of industrial accidents.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE SUBJECT MATTER
There is no double that industry is one of the most important sectors of the economy. The fact that a major share of the nations yearly budget goes to the industrial sector remains a testimony. In Nigeria industrialization, virtually unknown twenty years ago is providing the much needed new dimension into which the national economy can expand and diversity.
With dynamism in industrial activities, new and modern sophisticated technology is involved, when these equipment are not used by trained workers, accidents could result because of wrong handling causing damage to equipment and the advice that why brain (1990) gain the advice that safety awareness should be created in the minds of management of all manufacturing organization no matter their size or level of growth. It goes without saying that accidents occur in an industry and if not minimized or checked would ultimately affected productive capacity of the workers as well as the management of the industry and economy in general.
Having known that accidents prevent organization from accomplishing objectives and goals, the question now should be, what measures are the 50- called management of industry doing to ameliorate, if not totally eradicate the rate of injury and accidents occurrence in the government owned industry. The managers are expected to be at the upper echelon, introducing measures and mounting pressure to ensure safety and protection against. Their hazards and accident in the work environment. Unfortunately some management look at safety programme as added cost to the organization hence, they have tended to relent to forestalling the possible hazard in the firm.
In addition to this, Shublin in Udeze (2000:243) indicated that management should realize that reduction of accident covers their high direct and indirect accident costs of more than pay for the expense of a continuing safety programme.
There has been a lot of hues and cries calling for the attention of the management towards work safety, there has equally been a factory act of 1958 which stipulates certain safety standards in manufacturing companies; there has also been the government insistence that safety should be given priority attention as a part of the social responsibility of the organization it is in the light of all these that this study has embarked on finding out the impact of safety management on workers performance in government owned industries.
