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Management Practices on Occupational Health and Safety in Tanzanian’s Small Scale Mining Firms.

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dc.creator Nkolimwa, Dominic
dc.creator Jani, Dev
dc.creator Dominic, Theresia
dc.date 2021-05-03T16:43:28Z
dc.date 2021-05-03T16:43:28Z
dc.date 2018
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-07T11:55:42Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-07T11:55:42Z
dc.identifier Nkolimwa, D., Jani, D., & Dominic, T. (2018). Management Practices on Occupational Health and Safety in Tanzanian’s Small Scale Mining Firms. In 18th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship & Small Business (ICAESB), 9-10th August 2018 (pp. 53–62). Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). Retrieved from https://www.udbs.udsm.ac.tz/images/Docs/conferences/icaesb2018/ICAESB-proceedings-2018.pdf
dc.identifier 2591 - 6750
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5737
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5737
dc.description This study aimed at analyzing the influence of management practices on occupational health and safety in small scale mining firms, since it promotes security, hardworking and comfort of employees after been secured, which in return has positive impact to the national development. This study examines on how management practices can influence the implementation of occupational health and safety at workplace. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used to analysis data collected from 297 small scale mining firms, test models and verify all hypotheses on direct effect of management practices on occupational health and safety. Also twelve interviewees were interviewed to provide the incorporated qualitative findings. The results demonstrate that Safety training (ST) and Employees communication (EC) has positive influence on the implementation of organization safety support (OSS) and proactive hazard control (PHC). These results imply that safety training and employee communication should be enhanced in order to improve the implementation of health and safety at workplace.
dc.language en
dc.publisher 18th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship & Small Business (ICAESB), 9-10th August 2018
dc.relation ICAESB;2018
dc.subject Health and safety
dc.subject small mining firms
dc.subject management practices
dc.title Management Practices on Occupational Health and Safety in Tanzanian’s Small Scale Mining Firms.
dc.type Conference Proceedings


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