EXAMINING THE ROLES OF AGE AND GENDER ON ATTITUDE OF ANAMCO WORKERS TOWARDS OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS

Abstract

The study examined the role of age and gender on workers of Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company (ANAMCO), Enugu, Nigeria towards occupational health hazards. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of 521 workers of ANAMCO. The instrument used for the study was Attitude of Workers Towards Occupational health Hazards Questionnaire (AWTOHHQ). This was designed by the researcher. Stratified sampling technique was used to draw sample for the study. Mean, standard deviation and student t-test were used for data analysis. Results revealed that the older workers had unfavourable attitude while the younger workers had favourable attitude towards their workplace hazards. Result also showed that both the male and female workers had favourable attitude towards occupational health hazards. There were significant differences in the attitudes of the older and younger workers, male and female workers towards their hazardous workplace. The older workers showed significantly less unfavourable attitude (t = -3.886, df = 475, P = .002) than the younger workers, while the female workers showed more favourable attitude (t = -3.028, df = 475, P = .003) toward occupational health hazards than the males. It was therefore recommended that intervention geared towards improving works’ knowledge towards occupational health hazards be adopted such as, workshops, seminars, training, re-training, and conferences.