The Severity of Skill Shortages in the Nigerian Building Construction Artisans (Published)
A number of issues arise from Nigeria’s lack of a regulated and effective system for evaluating the credentials and abilities of artisans in the building sector, including ineffective verification, subjective evaluation, restricted accessibility, a lack of standardisation, and security issues. The study aimed to assess severity of skill shortages in the Nigerian building construction artisans. The study adopts descriptive survey design and quantitative approach was used as study approach, survey strategy was adopted and data were collected through questionnaire survey. The study also adopts simple random sampling technique and SPSS software version 22 was used for data analysis tools. A descriptive analysis type using mean ranking technique and (percentage) were used for the analysis. The study revealed that practicing building construction artisans in Nigeria lack the requisite anger management skills at their workplaces, delay in building projects delivery in Nigeria. Also, practicing building construction artisans in Nigeria lack the requisite health, safety and house-keeping skills at their workplaces and lack of institutionalization of the NSQ leads to skill shortages for the industry were the major points of consideration when looking at the skill shortages for the building construction delivery in Nigeria. Provision of adequate competency-based trainers was rated the most important strategy, suggesting that qualified trainers are essential for effective skill development. Periodic capacity building for practicing artisans, regular training and development programs for existing artisans was considered crucial for maintaining and enhancing their skills. Also, enactment of enabling legislation for the national building code enforcement and a strong regulatory framework is seen as necessary to ensure industry standards and compliance.
Keywords: Artisans, Severity, building construction, effective system, skill shortages
Determination of the Effects of Building Constructions on the Health of Site Workers in Minna, Nigeria (Published)
Building construction activities and accidents on construction sites are significantly rated high in Nigeria. To reduce this problem, various building construction sites in Minna metropolis were studied and the aim was to determine the extent in which the health of workers are being affected by the construction activities by taking into considerations, the sources of responsible hazards, in order to generate guidelines to reduce hazards in construction sites in Nigeria. 10 different areas in Minna metropolis were used for this research. In each of these areas, data were collected from two building construction sites. The types of buildings that were studied are residential, commercial and institutional buildings. Primary data were obtained through interviews and structured checklist. In each of the building construction site, five workers were interviewed. Secondary data were obtained from the reviews of relevant academic materials to this research. Tables and content analysis technique were used to present the data. Among the findings are: the majority of workers have no protective clothing and the frequency of this loop hole is significantly rated very high in all the building construction sites; some workers do not have boots to protect their feet in all the building construction sites that were studied; Among the recommended guidelines are: it must be ensured by the building engineers or the project managers that all the workers should have protective clothing, in order to minimise injuries during the construction activities on the building construction sites; it must also be ensured by the building engineers or the project managers that all the workers should have boots to protect their feet, in order to minimise injuries during the construction activities on the building construction sites.
Keywords: Hazards, Health, building construction, injuries, workers
Determination of the Effects of Building Constructions on the Health of Site Workers in Minna, Nigeria (Published)
Building construction activities and accidents on construction sites are significantly rated high in Nigeria. To reduce this problem, various building construction sites in Minna metropolis were studied and the aim was to determine the extent in which the health of workers are being affected by the construction activities by taking into considerations, the sources of responsible hazards, in order to generate guidelines to reduce hazards in construction sites in Nigeria. 10 different areas in Minna metropolis were used for this research. In each of these areas, data were collected from two building construction sites. The types of buildings that were studied are residential, commercial and institutional buildings. Primary data were obtained through interviews and structured checklist. In each of the building construction site, five workers were interviewed. Secondary data were obtained from the reviews of relevant academic materials to this research. Tables and content analysis technique were used to present the data. Among the findings are: the majority of workers have no protective clothing and the frequency of this loop hole is significantly rated very high in all the building construction sites; some workers do not have boots to protect their feet in all the building construction sites that were studied; Among the recommended guidelines are: it must be ensured by the building engineers or the project managers that all the workers should have protective clothing, in order to minimise injuries during the construction activities on the building construction sites; it must also be ensured by the building engineers or the project managers that all the workers should have boots to protect their feet, in order to minimise injuries during the construction activities on the building construction sites.
Keywords: Hazards, Health, building construction, injuries, workers