Assessment of Safety Culture in Tertiary Institutional Chemical Analytical Laboratories in Oghara and Warri, Delta State, Nigeria
The objective concerning this study was to assess the security culture in 20 synthetic analytical laboratories in the Nigerian Delta state towns of Oghara and Warri. This was completed through a determination of the safety accomplishment between tertiary instruction chemical workshops and industrial laboratories, private and management-owned laboratories, and mechanics and non-technical labs. The 5-point Likert scale inquiry and a common checklist were the research procedures used in this study. A t-test corresponding of private and government-owned labs revealed that the security culture of private-owned labs, regardless of whether they were technical or higher education, was more important (P < 0.05) than that of government-owned labs. Analysis of t-test for the survey indicated no significant dissimilarity between tertiary instruction and industrial labs (P > 0.05), with a mean value of 3.69798 for after second education laboratories and 3.62842 for technical laboratories. Analysis of t-test further indicated P < 0.05 for technical (M = 75.00) and non-mechanics (M = 56.11) tertiary education labs. The overall mean for tertiary education synthetic analytical workshops is 67.90, which is higher than the overall mean for mechanical chemical analysis workshops, which is 54.50. It is considered that laboratories set up a administrative safety committee-surpassed internal review mechanism for occurrences and corrective conduct, and hold recurring safety conferences on the lessons that can be acquire from accidents. All analytical workshops should also implement a powerful and effective safety administration system.
Author(s) Details:
S. A. Agaja,
Industrial Safety and Environmental Technology Department, Petroleum Training Institute, P. M. B. 20, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria.
G. J. Birma,
Industrial Safety and Environmental Technology Department, Petroleum Training Institute, P. M. B. 20, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria.
C. J. Ndu,
Industrial Safety and Environmental Technology Department, Petroleum Training Institute, P. M. B. 20, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria.
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Keywords: Safety, culture, industry, institution, laboratory