CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION                                                                                   1

1.1       Background to the Study                                                                               1

1.2       Statement of the Problem                                                                               4

1.3       Objective of the study                                                                                                5

1.4       Research Questions                                                                                         5

 1.6        Significance of the Study                                                                             6

1.7       Scope of the Study                                                                                         6

1.8       Operational Definition of Terms                                                                     7

CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE                                  8

2.1       Health and Safety in the Workshops                                                              8

2.2       Health and Safety in the Industries and School Workshop                           11

2.3       Development of Occupational Health in Nigeria                                           14

2.4       General Physical and Environmental Conditions of Health and Safety in 

            Workshop                                                                                                        14

2.5       Compliance with Health and Safety Standards                                             16

2.6       Building an Effective Health and Safety Management System                     16

2.7       Theoretical Framework                                                                                   19

2.8       Summary of Literature Review                                                                      20

CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY                                                                   22

3.1       Research design                                                                                              22

3.2       Population of the study                                                                                    23

3.3       Sample and sampling techniques                                                                    23

3.4       Research instrument                                                                                        23

3.5       Validity of research instrument                                                                       24

3.6       Reliability of research instrument                                                                    24

3.7       Procedure for data collection                                                                          24

3.8       Procedure for data analysis                                                                            24

CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS 25

4.1       Students’ Demographic Information                                                              25

4.2       Lecturers’ Demographic Information                                                             26

4.3       Analysis of Research Questions                                                                     27

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS           37

5.1       Summary of Findings                                                                                     37

5.2       Conclusion                                                                                                      37

5.3       Recommendations                                                                                          38

References                                                                                                                  39

Appendix                                                                                                                    44

This study investigated the investigate teacher’s and student’s perception of factors enhancing occupational health and safety practices in technology education workshop. It specifically examined if teachers and students knowledge of occupational health and safety will enhance occupational health and safety practices in technology education workshop; investigated teachers and students attitude to occupational health and safety as factor that enhances occupational health and safety practices in technology education workshop and determined if availability of health and safety equipment will enhance occupational health and safety practices in technology education workshop.

Descriptive survey research design was adopted by this study and the target population was forty (40) lecturers and one hundred (100) students of Federal College of Education Akoka and Government Technical College Ikotun, both in Lagos State were used as sample. Data were generated through questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics of percentage with the aid of statistical package for social science.

The findings of this study revealed that teachers and students have enough knowledge of occupational health and safety and this enhances the practices in workshop; it was discovered that teachers perceived attitude to occupational health and safety will enhance it practices but students responses differs to that of the teachers; Also, this study revealed that both teachers and students perceived availability of occupational health and safety equipment will enhance the practices of occupational health and safety in workshop. It was concluded that teachers and students have positive perception regarding knowledge of occupational health and safety, attitude to occupational health and safety, and availability of occupational health and safety equipment and these enhances the practices of occupational health and safety in workshop.

Among other recommendation is that management of technical colleges should not relent in providing protective equipment and the students should continue to be given periodic training in order for them to continue to remember the important of occupational health and safety.

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Keywords: Teachers Perception, Student’s Perception, Occupational Health, Safety                           Practices