SAFETYMANAGEMENTANDEMPLOYEEJOB PERFORMANCE IN MANUFACTURING FIRMS ASTUDYOFNIGERIABOTTLINGCOMPANY PLC IRETE, IMO STATE
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Safety in workplace is very essential in the life of the employees. Most times
employees get injured during the course of their work, which may render
them incapacitated or lead to death, without much impact from the
employers, who are supposed to ensure that the work environment is safe for
the worker who make use of the workspace day in, day out. The objective of
this study is to examine the effect of safety management and employee job
performance in manufacturing firms in Nigeria and Nigeria Bottling PLC in
particular. Survey research design was used for the study, where a total of
185 respondents were sampled. Tables and percentages were used to
analyze the responses and Chi-square was used to test the hypotheses. Both
analysis of the responses and the result of the Chi-square confirmed that
employee job performances are affected by provision of the necessary first
aid kit, fire-fighting equipment and the general health and safety
management. The researcher recommended that Employees should be
properly trained on how to make use of the available first aid kit and other
health and safety measure to help themselves when the need arises and
improve their working relationship. Not only provision of health and safety
materials, employers should have health personnel on ground to take care of
any issue the normal worker cannot handle in the course of th
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