1. APPRAISING THE FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SMALL MEDIUM AND LARGE CONSTRUCTION SITES IN OYO STATE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: However, the construction industry is often regarded as one of the most hazardous sectors of the industry anywhere in the globe. According to the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (2011), a constructio... Read More
2. ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY IN COASTAL REGION
INTRODUCTION: Among the major problems facing mankind today, is the issue of climate change and variability. Climate change has long-since ceased to be a scientific curiosity, and no longer a mere environmental and regulatory concerns but a major, overriding envi... Read More
3. AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE OFFICE RELATIONSHIP ON ORGANISATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Employers do not only hire workers but also start of a new relationship.Thus managing relationship becomes a salient factor which determines performance and productivity in such working environment. Although the goal of every organiz... Read More
4. CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF DANGERS IN THE AREA OF FOOD PREPARATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Occupational dangers pose a significant threat to an active workforce. Fricidences such as back discomfort, contact dermatitis, shoulder and wrist fractures, cuts, and burns are some of the occupational illnesses and injuries that workers experie... Read More
5. COSTS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN BUILDING SITES
ABSTRACT: The construction industry is inherently hazardous. Thus, there is a need to make the construction site a safe place to work although the poor safety record remains a concern. The determination of the aggregate costs of health and safety programmes is considered a leap f... Read More
6. HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SOURCES AND EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
ABSTRACT: This study was carried out on hazardous chemical sources and effect on the environment using SAIDI Nigeria Limited as case study. To achieve this 2 research hypothesis were formulated. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling t... Read More
7. THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT ON ORGANISATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION: A lamentable but hard fact of industrial life is that a number of people are injured, crippled, renders disabled or killed in th... Read More
8. THE INFLUENCES OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT ON EMPLOYEE’S JOB COMMITMENT
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: Safety and health principles are universal, but how much action is needed will depend on the size of the organization, the ha... Read More
9. THE IMPACT OF STAFF WELFARE ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF WORKERS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND STUDY: In the era of Globalization, market economy, hyper competition and rapid changing environment, the success of an organization depends on the employees’ performance. Employees&rs... Read More
10. THE IMPACT OF WORK ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE’S PERFORMANCE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Working environment plays an important role towards the employees performance. Working environment is argued to im... Read More
11. THE IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCES POLICIES ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background To The Study: Management of human resources policies of is general to the growth and survival of any organization particularly those of the... Read More
12. THE IMPACT OF JOB SATISFACTION AND WORKERS PERFORMANCE IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study: Nigeria is one of several nations that has been impacted by a "brain drain" of health workers in recent years. In q... Read More
13. COST OF IMPLEMENTING HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN ABUJA, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The lack of provision of cost for H&S during the preliminary stage of construction brings about poor attitude of construction stakeholders towards the implementation of H&S measures on construction sites in Nigeria. This might be associated with increase in rate of acci... Read More
14. DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AS DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE RETURNS TO INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION AMONG NIGERIAN WORKERS
ABSTRACT
Earlier studies on private returns to education in Nigeria neither gave adequate attention to the demographic factors nor covered the whole country. Some of them investigated the relationship among years of schooling, experience and earnings that covered one state, while others... Read More
15. Employment Practices and Working conditions among Contract Employees in the American Oil Companies in Nigeria and the United States of America
ABSTRACT
This study examined employment practices and working conditions among contract employees in the American oil companies in Nigeria and the United States of America (USA) with a focus on comparative analysis of their working hours, remuneration, occupational health and safety, an... Read More
16. EVALUATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING BY CONSTRUCTION FIRMS IN ABUJA, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Health and Safety (H&S) training is one of the most widely adopted practices for improving workplace safety. Existing H&S literature focuses more on the training of workers in construction firms of developed nations. This leaves out issues of H&S training of workers... Read More
17. GOVERNMENTAL AND ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS AS PREDICTORS OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OF FEMALE WORKERS IN INDUSTRIES IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The protection of workers generally against health and safety hazards at work environments has been emphasised adequately in International Labour Organisation Conventions and Recommendation. Nigeria, being a signatory to these conventions and recommendations, must ensure strict... Read More
18. Human-Centered Wireless Sensing Systems for Health and Safety
Abstract
Commodity passive RFID system consisting of the reader and battery-free RFID tags proliferates the internet-of-things applications (e.g., indoor localization, gesture recognition and assets tracking) due to its low cost and small form factor. In this thesis, we propose three hu... Read More