Workplace Health and Safety Practices in Relation to Employee Work Performance in Tanzania: – A Case Study of Geita Gold Mining Limited.

Mhina, Salma Omary (2023) Workplace Health and Safety Practices in Relation to Employee Work Performance in Tanzania: – A Case Study of Geita Gold Mining Limited. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study examined the workplace health and safety practices in relation to employee performance in Tanzania, using Geita Gold Mining Limited as a case study organization. Four specific objectives guided the study; firstly, to examine how health and safety measures influence employee work performance, secondly, examine the effects of health and safety programs on employee work performance, thirdly, determine the most common unsafe practices that may affect employee work performance and fourthly, assess the attitude of management on health and safety practices on influencing employee work performance. The study was hinged on Maslow hierarchy of needs and Goal-Freedom Alertness Theories in explaining how safety practices is related to employee performance in Tanzania mining sector. The study employed mixed research methods and it was informed by explanatory design. The study sample involved 361 participants. Data were collected based on interviews and questionnaires. Quantitative data were supported by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) tool; and regression analysis results showed that HSM (β=.275, p .000), HSP (β=.337, p=.002), UP (β=.317.000), AM (β=-.135, p- .003). Thus, it was established that there was positive significant relationship between research variables simply because the P-Value was less than 0.05 in all the research variables. Thus, it was concluded that working environment which lack health and safety to workers may lead to accidents and lower workers morale and hence performance. Workplace health and safety practices which jeopardize occupation health and safety of the employee should be discouraged by taking serious precautions and insist on proper health and safety practices by both workers and management. The study recommends that occupational health and safety should be the number one priority to any organization or company with an intention to maximize work performance to increase organization’s profit. It also recommends for further studies on workplace health and safety practices in relation to employee work performance which will involve large number of companies or organizations.

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