Evaluation of Building Construction Industries Compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Management Standards in South-South, Nigeria

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The study assessed building construction industries compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Management standards in South-South, Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The researchers adopted survey research design approach for the study. The population of the study consisted of 566 building construction contractors involved in construction industries in the study area. Considering the population of the study, stratified sampling technique was used to samples 66 contractors from Rivers State and 60 contractors from Akwa State making it a total of 126 building construction contractors. The researchers adopted 80-item ILO-OSH basic activities guidance check-list; faced and content validated by five experts for data collection. Cronbach alpha statistics which yielded reliability coefficient of 0.87 and 0.93 was used for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions while independent t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.5 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed the challenges facing building construction industries compliance with International Labour Organization’s Occupational Safety and Health Management System (ILO-OSHMS) in Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria are inadequate OSHMS control factors compliance; inadequate planning and implementation; inadequate measurement, audit and review. The researchers recommended that construction industries should set up an organizational structure that supports training and encourage middle management to provide adequate opportunity to workers to apply learned concepts in practice.

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