Awareness Assessment on Causes of Occupational Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities for Selected Companies in Nigeria

George I. Akalonu¹, Ify L. Nwaogazie^1± and Ejikeme Ugwoha¹

¹Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria.

Accepted August 10, 2017

The present study examined the general causes of injuries, illnesses and fatalities among the workforce in three industrial sectors located in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. A total of 663 copies of questionnaires were distributed for data collection among 11 sampled companies found in the Oil and Gas industries, Construction sector, Transportation and Logistics. In data collection, the purposive sampling technique was applied while XLSTAT 2016 version 4.06 statistical software package was employed for data analysis. The applied methodologies used for analyses of collected data, are the Friedman test used to examine variance among the various respondents’ groups; Multiple Pairwise comparisons (post hoc) of responses among the various sampled groups utilizing the Nemenyi’s procedure on two tailed test; Shapiro-Wilk test of Normality for determination of data type used for choice of analytical process to be applied for parametric and non-parametric data. Principal Component Analysis was applied to determine major components common among the various sampled respondents with respect to general causes of injuries, illnesses and fatalities. The results from the study revealed high level of awareness on the causes of injuries, illnesses and fatalities among the sampled oil and gas companies. However, the level of workforce awareness differs from company to company. Furthermore, recommendations were made on how to improve the awareness of the workforce on injuries, illnesses and fatalities causatives in order to reduce and or prevent their occurrence.

Key words: Illness, Fatalities, Injuries, Oil and Gas Industries, Construction Companies, Transportation and Logistics Companies, Principal Component Analysis.

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