Health And Safety On The Performance Of Employees In Kenya Case Study: Nzoia Sugar Company

ABSTRACT

The repo1i covers five chapters of which at the end, it gives a full analysis on healthy and safety in organization performance. In chapter one the report dwells on the historical background of the study, the location of the study and where geographically located. The social setting of the people around the study area, in terms of the tribe and the language they speak. The Economical settings in terms of revenue and employment. The organizational structure as per the departments and also the organizational designation from the top management to the bottom. It's also indicated in chapter one that the origin of health and safety as the royal commission of 1972 reported on unnecessary large numbers of life are lost each year through industrial accidents. Environmental factors in health and safety like Atmospheric condition. noise. lighting, monitoring. Besides that the objective of the study and the importance of health and safety are also discussed together with the significance of the study on health and safety at Nzoia Sugar Company.

In chapter two: In here it's where various scholars like Michael Armstrong looks healthy and safety as "programs that concerned with protecting employees and other person affected by what the company produces and does against the hazards arising from the company. Bennet and Grahams also sees health and safety as the maintenance of safe working conditions and prevention of accidents in an organization. It also concentrates on the health and safety legislations, institutions and employment act. It also presents the extracts from the factory act, employment act and from the workers compensation act. It gives information on internal and international organization that concerned themselves with the heath and safety of the employees. Stress as a whole defect on health of employees is discussed. Besides that it indicates the health and safety researches on accidents in the factory so far and ends by giving the health and safety measurement programs.