International NGO Journal

  • Abbreviation: Int. NGOJ
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8225
  • DOI: 10.5897/INGOJ
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 264

Article

Better be safe than be sorry”: An analysis of workshop behaivour in vocational and technical schools

V. O. Uwaifo
Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Ambrose Alli University,  Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 18 June 2009
  •  Published: 30 September 2009

Abstract

It is an indisputable fact that wherever work is done with machines or hand tools, there is likelihood of accident occurring, causing injuries to people, damages to machines, tools and materials in such a workplace. This accident may be caused by the worker's acts or omissions. Technical schools being equipped with a variety of such tools and machines for teaching and learning process are not left out. These schools full of young people whom we have much hope need to be protected and prevented from engaging in acts capable of causing accidents. As a result, safety rules and regulations must be devised and enforced for their smooth interaction and operations. They should be encouraged in any way deemed feasible to observe these rules and regulations. This safe working habits if imbibed in workshops would oven help them to apply same in situations outside the school. As such, some of such rules and regulations have been carefully analyzed in this write-up as personal safety, safety at the bench, safety on machines and general workshop safety which there is every believe that it would be of immense importance to technical schools' personnel, remember, it is better to be safe a - anywhere any time than to be sorry as people would choose to sympathize with victim’s of accidents even when the victims are the cause of such accidents