CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ACCIDENTS IN NIGERIAOIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Keywords:
Accidents, Oil and gas Workers, environment, perception, Remuneration, TrainingAbstract
Accidents are problems which have been rocking the oil and gas industry; the construction industry and even the Agricultural sector have not been spared of this monstrous invisible element called
“Accident”. Accidents don’t just happen; they are primarilycaused by human errors. The research methods adopted for this paper were: Field Surveys, Questionnaire administration, Personal interviews and Focus group discussions. The research findings show that 95% of accidents that happened were traceable to risk behaviors of workers, while 5% of accidents recorded were attributed to equipment failure. The research also exposed some sharp practices by some companies who supply subs-standard PPE’S, poor working environment, poor motivation, late payment of salaries and allowances to their workers. Finally, as a way of reducing accidents at the work sites, this research paper recommends that Companies, Organizations should do everything humanly possible to motivate their workers, by paying good salary, and on time, providing enabling or conducive work environment, and develop good safety programs like Job Safety Analysis (JSA),Planning Phase Hazard Analysis (PPHA),Risk Assessment/Analysis (RA), Stop Work Authority (SWA), should be robustly developed and deployed to theworkers as a way of reducing accidents at the work sites. In addition to the recommendations above,proper orientation and training of personnel both on-the-job and off-the-job should be deployed to the
personnel as another way of removing the notion or believe that “Accident is one of those things that are bound to happen
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