IMPACT OF WORKERS BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS ON SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF PETROL STATIONS IN SELECTED STATES IN THE NIGER DELTA
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the impact of workers behavioural traits on safety performance of petrol stations operating in selected states in the Niger Delta. Two variables were used to capture safety performance, namely near-miss occurrence and accident occurrence while five personality traits factors namely openness, neuroticism, agreeableness, extraversion and conscientiousness were used to capture behavioural traits. The study adopted cross-sectional and correlational research designs. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to sample petrol stations operating in three states in the Niger Delta (Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, and Rivers States) while Taro Yamane formula was used to calculate sample size of 440 petrol station attendants from the study population. Structured questionnaire designed based on 5-point Likert scale was used for data collection while reliability of the instruments was determined using Cronbach alpha index. Descriptive statistics and regression model were used for the data analysis. The results of descriptive statistics revealed that the petrol station attendants showed good personality traits (WA= 3.57 > 3.00) and safety performance of the petrol stations was good (WA= 3.47 > 3.00). The regression models revealed that the workers behavioural traits had positive and significant impact on safety performance of the petrol stations (B = 2.192 p-value = 0.001 < 0.05). Therefore, it was concluded that improvement in the workers behavioural traits would trigger corresponding improvement in the safety performance of the petrol stations in the Niger Delta.
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