The Effect of Occupational Health and Safety Inspection on Employee Performance In Sugar Companies In Kakamega County, Kenya.
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 9
Abstract
The twentieth century witnessed remarkable reductions in the number and rate of occupational fatalities and injuries. However, many preventable injuries and deaths still occur. There are barriers to progress in occupational injury prevention and strategies for overcoming them. In mining, the frequency of death has dramatically declined over the century. The latest figures indicate that less than 6000 employee deaths from injury occurred in 2000 (Stout, 2012). Catastrophic events have prompted increased attention, resources, and action on workplace hazards and risks, resulting in sweeping changes, including new protective laws. Science based approaches to prevention have contributed to progress. An Occupational Health and Safety study of factories found out that employees are exposed to a series of hazards at their workplaces. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of occupational health and safety inspections on employee performance in sugar companies in Kakamega County, Kenya. The study was anchored on the Domino theory. A causal design was used to examine effect of occupational health and safety inspection on employee performance. The research found out that occupational health and safety inspection and employee performance show that if inspection is raised by a unit level, employee performance would be improved by 0.117 units but ranging between 0.074 and 0.16 at 95 percent confidence level. The simple model was observed to be valid with an F value of 29.309 (DF 1, 157) and R square of 0.157 at P=0.000. This means that occupational health and safety inspection explains 15.7 percent of the variation in employee performance. The recommendation for study therefore include managers of the sugar companies should ensure occupational health and safety inspection is regularly done so as to reduce incident of accidents and injuries and improve employee performance.
Authors and Affiliations
Mr. Otsyulah Joseph Okumu, Dr. Tibbs Y. Charles, Dr. Ojera B. Patrick
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