Management Practices on Occupational Health and Safety in Tanzanian’s Small Scale Mining Firms.

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dc.contributor.authorNkolimwa, Dominic
dc.contributor.authorJani, Dev
dc.contributor.authorDominic, Theresia
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-03T16:43:28Z
dc.date.available2021-05-03T16:43:28Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis study aimed at analyzing the influence of management practices on occupational health and safety in small scale mining firms, since it promotes security, hardworking and comfort of employees after been secured, which in return has positive impact to the national development. This study examines on how management practices can influence the implementation of occupational health and safety at workplace. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used to analysis data collected from 297 small scale mining firms, test models and verify all hypotheses on direct effect of management practices on occupational health and safety. Also twelve interviewees were interviewed to provide the incorporated qualitative findings. The results demonstrate that Safety training (ST) and Employees communication (EC) has positive influence on the implementation of organization safety support (OSS) and proactive hazard control (PHC). These results imply that safety training and employee communication should be enhanced in order to improve the implementation of health and safety at workplace.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNkolimwa, D., Jani, D., & Dominic, T. (2018). Management Practices on Occupational Health and Safety in Tanzanian’s Small Scale Mining Firms. In 18th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship & Small Business (ICAESB), 9-10th August 2018 (pp. 53–62). Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). Retrieved from https://www.udbs.udsm.ac.tz/images/Docs/conferences/icaesb2018/ICAESB-proceedings-2018.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.issn2591 - 6750
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5737
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher18th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship & Small Business (ICAESB), 9-10th August 2018en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesICAESB;2018
dc.subjectHealth and safetyen_US
dc.subjectsmall mining firmsen_US
dc.subjectmanagement practicesen_US
dc.titleManagement Practices on Occupational Health and Safety in Tanzanian’s Small Scale Mining Firms.en_US
dc.typeConference Proceedingsen_US
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