Determinants of safety Measures Utilization by Employees at Excel Construction Limited, Kampala.

Abstract

Introduction: The study assessed the determinants of safety measures utilization by employees at Excel construction company, Kampala. General objective: The study set out to establish the determinants of utilization of safety measures by employees at Excel construction company, Kampala. Study objectives: The specific objectives were: to asses individual determinants of safety measures utilization by employees at Excel construction limited Kampala, to determine the level of supervision on safety measures utilization by employees at Excel construction limited Kampala, to assess industrial determinants of safety measures utilization by employees at Excel construction limited Kampala. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study design was adopted and applied. The respondents were both male and female, aged 18 years and above. The researcher used both a self-administered questionnaire and researcher administered questionnaire and then sampled purposively. One key informant interview was held to capture qualitative data from health workers. Research questions were: What are the individual determinants of safety measures utilization by employees at Excel construction company, Kampala? what is the level of supervision on safety measures utilization for the employees at Excel construction company, Kampala? what are the industrial determinants of safety measures utilization at Excel construction company, Kampala? Data was analyzed descriptively using Univariate, bivariate and multivariate measures using SPSS programme version 17 where the chi-square, p-values were generated to find out the most significant variables determining utilization of safety measures.

Results: Level of utilization of safety measures was very low varying from 12.1-19.6% for most of the times. 305(79.2%) of the respondents were males, 80(20.8%) were female, 290(75.3%) were aged 18-30 years old, 285(74.0%) had secondary level of education and 197(51.2%) were employed on temporary basis. Information got from the general safety officer, from the three sites, the total number of construction workers is 420, males with the highest number compared to females. Therefore female construction workers were few in number and had highly utilized safety measures than male employees. Utilization of safety measure was lower among temporary and casual employees compared to permanent employees. Information dissemination on safety measures increased utilization of safety measures. Conclusion and recommendations: Level of utilization of safety measures was very low varying from 12.1-19.6% for most of the times. Female employees had higher use of safety measures than males. Utilization of safety measures was lower among temporary and casual workers compared to permanent workers. Information on safety measures increase utilization of safety measures (There is need to urgently improve use of safety measures among Ugandan employees through information dissemination. However, such information dissemination strategy must target male, temporary and causal employees because of their low utilization of safety measures.