A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Public Administration of the Mzumbe University
This study was conducted at Temeke Municipal Council - Dar es Salaam with the main objective to examine the contribution of implementation of health and safety programme to the organisational performance. Particularly, this study intended to examine how Temeke Municipal implements the programme, to assess the success of the implementation of the programme and to evaluate the improvement of performance of employees at Temeke Municipal after the implementation of the programme.
This study employed a case study research design where the purposive and simple random techniques were used to acquire respondents. The questionnaires and interview were the instruments used for data collection from 30 respondents. The analysis of the data were done using the SPSS and Microsoft Excel spread sheet for quantitative data while the direct quotations were used to present the qualitative data.
The findings of this study show that, there is direct link between health and safety at working place and the improvement of workers performance. The Temeke Municipal Council is embarked on implementation of various health and safety programme objectively to improve the workers performance and increase service provision to the society. Despite all the efforts, there various challenges which need to be addressed so as to reach the pre-determined goals. Those challenges include shortage of funds to enable the successful implementation of the programme, shortage of experts to train and create awareness to the employees on health and safety issues, but also the readiness of the employees to support the management on implementation of the programme.
The findings show that, the Municipal is working hard on resolving those challenges, however, the government has to invest and set enough budgets for the implementation of health and safety programmes for better performance of employees. The researcher insist on the proper utilization of the small funds that is available by setting the priority to the health and safety at working place. Workers spend a great deal of their time in organizational settings thus it has to be in better condition for better performance.