A Study of the Effects of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Environment on Employees’ Job Performance in a Manufacturing Organisation of Lagos Metropolis, Lagos, Nigeria
A Study of the Effects of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Environment on Employees’ Job Performance in a Manufacturing Organisation of Lagos Metropolis, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary/Abstract: The study examined the effect of occupational health and safety and work environment on the employees’ job performance using manufacturing organisation in Lagos Metropolis as the unit of analysis. aside this, the study identified the relationship among occupational health and safety, work environment and employees’ job performance and singles out the dominant factor that contributed more in terms of potency to factors affecting employees’ job performance. Research questionnaire was the instrument used in data collection which was administered to 189 respondents while convenience and random sampling techniques were applied. The result sh ows that each of the variables i.e. occupational health and safety and work environment are significant at p < 0.05 where F c = 39.494 > Ft = 2.821 which was further supported by the result R2 of 73% responsible for what happens in employees’ job performance and work environment with the higher value of β = 0.308 was found to contribute more as a factor to explain variables with potency to affect employees’ job performance. It was concluded that high premium should be placed on the work environment and occupational health and safety of employees and recommended that there is need to create a family-like atmosphere to work environment friendly and safe.

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