Work-safety and Health Management on Employee Satisfaction: CSR Insider Approach: A Study of Lubcon Nigeria Limited

Abstract

In an attempt to sustain an evolving growth and compete favorably in a fast-growing market environment, management in various organization strategically invest enormously by adding values to their resources where labour is one. Doing this involves protecting the lives of employees from physical work injury and hazard in the work environment by not only making available the safety equipment as part of internal CSR employees related activities, but also train them on how to handle work safety equipment as well as their involvement in making safety policies. Despite these efforts by the management, employees still feel insecure and become unsatisfied with the job. Hence, the main objective of this research is to determine the effect of work safety and health management on employees’ satisfaction with specific attention to LUBCON Nigeria limited. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study as primary data were obtained through the use of questionnaire from 216 respondents. The result of the statistical analysis through the use of multiple regression revealed that work safety and health management have significant influence on employees’ satisfaction (R 2 = .624 , P-value ≤ 0.05). It therefore concluded that work safety and health management have a significant impact on employees’ satisfaction at LUBCON Nigeria Limited. The study therefore recommended that managementof LUBCON Nigeria Limited should intensify its efforts to strengthen the work safety and health conditions of her employees by laying hands on procuring new and up-to-date protective safety equipment so that it can create a drive-inemployee to put in their maximum best towards achieving organizational objectives. This is because, when employees feel motivated with an enabling operating environment, they feel secured and this creates inner drive which result in higher productivity.