Abstract/Summary

This study investigates the level of adoption and the resultant effectiveness of International Labour Organisation Occupational Safety and Health Management System (ILO-OSHMS) by construction companies in the South-South zone of Nigeria. The objectives are to determine the level of compliance to ILO-OSHMS by construction companies in the south-south zone of Nigeria, compare the level of compliance across the states, and will establish the relationship between level of compliance to the management system and the rate of accident occurrence, determine the effectiveness of the safety and health management system and compare the effectives among the states. To achieve the objectives, a field survey involving 453 contactors selected by stratified random sampling of the contractors registered with various Government agencies, carried out by the use of a structured questionnaire. Percentages, Kruskal Wallis (H) test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used for the analysis. The results reveal that compliance to elements of ILO-OSHMS was above average. The comparison among the states showed that for elements of policy generation there are no significant difference across the states while there were substantial differences among the states ranging from elements of organization, planning and implementation, measurement, audit and review.