Safety Intervention Strategy And Organizational Safety Performance

Abstract

To better understand the required intervention strategies that enhance staff safety in the workplace and the safety performance of organisations, especially in the Nigerian manufacturing sector has necessitated this study’s timely and justification. To collect the necessary data, a self-administered questionnaire was developed for the survey section of the study utilising a five-point Likert scale technique and the "drop-off and pick-up" method. This measure ensures that the questionnaire reflects the researcher's goals. To gather the necessary data for this study, 211 carefully chosen industrial establishments—196 of which were registered and 15 of which were not—from three Nigerian state capitals—Ikeja (Lagos), Akure (Ondo), and Ibadan (Oyo state)—provided a sample of 663 participants. The survey was assessed using the factor analysis analytical method in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 26. Findings revealed that the manufacturing industry's management developed suitable safety intervention strategies to achieve organisational safety performance. Thus recommended that to ensure the long-term sustainability of firms, all aspects of the workplace must be safeguarded through the adoption and implementation of proper safety procedures to provide desired safety results, as this is proven to heighten the safety awareness of the workforce thereby availing the much sort after organisational safety performance..