Abstract

Safety practices is a global means of reducing accidents in the workplace. The purpose of this study was identify the determinants of hazards control pracitices among timber workers operating in Port Harcourt metropolis. Five objectives and four null hypotheses were for formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance for the study. Descriptive cross sectional design was adopted for this study to describe and analyse the data collected from timber workers. The population for the study estimated 1500 workers in Timber processing industries in Rivers State and the sample size of 400 was selected using multi-stage sampling procedure. Validated instrument was used to collect data for the study with reliability coefficient of 0.58 using Cronbach Alpha. The result of the study illustrated that there was a significant relationship between hazard control practices based on age (p<0.05), type of work (p<0.05), training (p<0.05), and level of education ((p<0.05). The study concluded that safety practices of occupational hazards was high but differs in age, type of work, training and level of education among others. In regards to this study, it was recommended that trade union and other relevant agencies should organize periodic workshops and training programmes on health and safety to cover proper information on workplace hazards among timber workers.