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ABSTRACT
Health, Safety and Environment of workers are crucial in production process and that is why
employees must handle with issues of health, safety and wellbeing of workers with utmost
seriousness for high productivity to be achieved in the workplace. Previous studies had not
adequately addressed the issue of industrial productivity within the contexts of health, safety
and environment. It is on this basis the study examined Occupational Safety, Health and
Environment on Industrial Productivity in PZ Cussons Nigeria PLC.
The research employed the accidental causation theory divided into Heinrich’s Domino
theory, Farell’s Theory. The total number of respondents was three hundred and ninety
respondents which included 46.2% male and 53.8% female. The sample size determination
formula used was the Taro Yamane formula. The sample size was 400. Multi stage sampling
technique was adopted with questionnaire as the data collection instrument. Percentages and
frequencies were used through SPSS. For analysis of data, Hypothesis 1 showed that, there is
no significant relationship between employees’ safety at work and job efficiency. Hypothesis
2 showed that there was no significant relationship between workplace medical facilities and
employees’ output. Hypothesis 3 showed that there was no significant association between
the environmental working conditions and employees job performance in the organization.
Hypothesis 4 revealed that there was a significant relationship between effectiveness of safety
in environmental agencies and compliance with safety regulations in the organization, the
more effective environmental agencies are, the more the compliance with safety regulations
in the organization.
From the forgoing, it was recommended that both state and federal agencies responsible for
workplace safety, health and environmental issues such as NAFDAC, FERMA, LASEMA
etc. should be up and doing. Effective regular inspection of workplace health, environment
and safety issued must take place. This will put management of the work organizations on
their toes on how to ensure compliance with regulations on health, safety and environment
also, the management of PZ Cussons PLC must be ready to commit adequate resources to
health, safety and environmental matters. Once enough money is set aside with positive
attitude, the organization would soar higher in terms of profit making and market expansion.
Key words: Industrial productivity, Occupational safety, Occupational health and
Environment