Strategies for Preventing Accidents and Maintaining Industrial Safety in Technical Education Workshops

This study determined the strategies for preventing industrial accidents in technical education workshops in technical colleges in Edo and Delta States, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Two research questions were formulated to guide this study and two null hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance. The population of the study consisted of 316 respondents from medium scale industries (34), technical teachers (129) and final year students (153) in technical colleges from the colleges of education in the two states. The population was manageable; hence census sampling technique was adopted using the entire population for the study. Ninety (90) items questionnaire derived from literature was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument was face-validated by five experts. The instrument was pilot tested, data collected were subjected into reliability test using Cronbarch’s alpha, and the analysis gave reliability coefficient of .86. The data collected from this study were analyzed using mean and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to test the null hypotheses. The findings from this study revealed among others that the safety practices were required to prevent accidents and maintain safety in the workshops. It was recommended amongst others that the safety practices as identified in this study be practiced and adhered to maintain an accident free workshop.