| Popis: |
An essential and major part of each prevention policy is to have explicit information on the figure of diseases and accidents, their seriousness, the origins, the work environment, and sectors where they happen. This means that every organization and nation required a well-active and efficient system for recording and reporting diseases and accidents. This will serve as a source of information for the investigation, policy formulation, and prevention of incidents in the workplace. Inadequate resources and bad reporting mechanisms could support the under-reporting of occupational accidents. The study’s aim is therefore to examine the consequences of under-reporting of occupational accidents in the Nigerian construction industry. A review of the literature was conducted on under-reporting of occupation accidents followed by a field survey with 300 structured questionnaires, administered to solicit information from construction professionals in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. The SPSS software and Microsoft excel were used to analyse the data. The findings of the study revealed the consequences of under-reporting among which are affecting the implementation policy on occupational health and safety, and equally affecting the planning and prevention of occupational illness and accidents. The study, therefore, suggests an improvement in any existing reporting structure and also establishes an unsophisticated and robust system of reporting to motivate construction organizations and employees to account for the full detail of all incidents that occur in the working environments. |
