There is need to ensure that in everything we do the safety of human life is given the
utmost priority. Human life is priceless and the strongest desire of every normal
person is to stay healthy and alive, that is why it is unfortunate when a life is lost due
to an accident that could have been prevented. The need for persons and
organizations to conduct their affairs in a manner that ensures safety of human life,
property and the environment can therefore not be over emphasized. The primary aim
of this study is to find out the health, safety and environmental policies, equipments
and programmes that are in place in an employee work environment by Continental
Shipyard Limited (CSL) Apapa.Deriving from the stated aim the study will
endeavour to find out the following evaluation of the workers understanding of health
safety and environmental issues and appraise the health, safety and environmental
facilities and practices in Continental Shipyard Limited. The research design adopted
for this study is the field survey which involves visits to the Continental Shipyard
Limited located at Dockyard Road Apapa. The sample comprised of fifty-five (55)
employees of Continental Shipyard Limited consisting of thirty (30) junior workers
both technical and manual, ten (10) Managers, ten (10) supervisors and five (5)
safety officers who were randomly selected from the entire workforce. The validity
and reliably of the questionnaire was certified in terms of content by peer review and
multi-stage pilot testing. Major findings from the research study showed that the
challenge of maintaining health, safety and environment were tremendous. Workers
in terms of their health and organizations suffered more due to loss of personnel,
man-hour and destruction of properties and equipment. In conclusion, it was noted
that Continental Shipyard Limited really put in place necessary health and safety
equipments but most of these were not adequately managed and maintained to handle
emergencies and dangers to avert deaths. It is recommended that the employees must
be properly educated to understand what health, safety and environment in the work
place is all about, intimated on job hazards, and that proper work procedures are
followed; all pure job test especially, should be carried out to make sure that wrong
personnel is not hired.