The Influence of Health and Safety Practices on Employees Performance: A Case of TBL Mwanza Ilemela
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This study intended to assess the influence of health and safety practices on employee
performance. The independent variables considered were health and safety training,
health and safety working conditions and safety procedures and risk management while
the outcome variable was employee performance. This study only used quantitative
approach in order to accomplish the study purpose, in which descriptive study design
was adopted. This study was conducted at TBL in Mwanza which is termed as the study
area while the employees of the company were termed as the study population. Simple
random sampling method was used for sample selection, whereby a total number of 72
samples successfully responded to questionnaires which was data collected technique
adopted in this study. Quantitative data obtained through questionnaire was analyzed
using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and
ANOVA. The findings indicated that the study’ independent variables including health
and safety training, working condition and safety procedures and risk management had
positive and significant influence of employee performance. With these findings, the
study concludes that health and safety measures are important to be applied due to its
enormous contribution to performance of employees. It is recommended that emphasis
should be given in conduction of regular training on occupational health and safety
practices, safe working conditions should be improved and maintained and disciplinary
actions should be taken for safety rules breakers among employees.
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Health and Safety; Employees Performance