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Health risk behaviours and its effects on employee’s productivity in selected oil and gas servicing companies, in Port-Harcourt 1*Imiete G, and 2Kpang MBT 1Centre For Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies, University of Port-Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Port-Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria. *Corresponding Author’s: E-mail Addresses ✉: godspowerimiete@gmail.com; Accepted September 11,2019 This study is about, health risk behaviours and its effects on employee’s productivity in selected oil and gas servicing companies, in Port-Harcourt. The study used the survey research design, and the purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample industries, while 50% of the workers of the sampled industries, were sampled for the study. Copies of questionnaire were used to collect information regarding the subject matter from the respondents. Data generated were presented in tables, while percentages were used to draw conclusions on the issues of interest. Findings include, the majority of the workers (60.6%) do not engage in exercise. They do not plan their meals (83.34%) and do not rest (84.9%). On the other hand they consume alcohol a lot (76.1%). Furthermore, 32.6% of the total respondents suggested that health risk behaviours of the workers had effects on work productivity in the area. As a result, the study advocates the need to set up a taskforce to ensure that, the workers practice an effective health style and that supervisors of the workers engage the workers in round table discussions to help resolve the internal problems of the workers amongst others. Key words: Knowledge, Awareness, HIV/AIDS, Abuja, Prevention, Control, Misconceptions. Full Text PDF (300 KB) |
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