SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Vocational Education

CONTRIBUTORS:

Ogunmola, A. E.
Eze, T. I.

ABSTRACT:

This study investigated the typology, causative factors and preventive strategies of accidents in technical college workshops in Kwara and Kogi States. Seven research questions were posed and six hypotheses were formulated for the study. A descriptive research design was employed. The area of the study was Kwara and Kogi states. A total of 793 technical teachers made up the population of the study, while proportionate purposeful random sampling was used to select the sample which was 397. Research instrument was a questionnaire named ‘Questionnaire on Typology, Causative Factors and Preventive Strategies of Accidents in Technical College Workshop (QTCFPSATCW)’. Three experts validated the instrument and a reliability test using Cronbach Alpha method yielded 0.92. Mean rating was used to answer the research questions while z-test at 0.05 level of significance was used to test the hypotheses. Analysis was done using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings among others revealed that accidents like cuts from sharp objects, burns from hot objects (e.g. oven, forge), falls and electric shock do occur. The cause of these accidents included failure to adhere to safety rules and regulations; using defective tools; engaging in horse play and poor housing keeping. There exists no significance difference in the mean ratings of male technical teachers and female technical teachers of strategies that could be adopted to prevent accidents in technical college workshops. Based on the findings, recommendations were made among which were that technical teachers should organize the workshop activities with good housekeeping and that government should ensure availability of training equipment in adequate quantity and quality to commensurate with students’ ratio in technical college workshops.