Abstract:
Safety is a critical consideration for any welding project. Application of safety
measures and practices among welders are important ways of preventing or reducing
the levels of health hazards associated with the occupation. While adherence to these
precautions is nearly applied in the industrial welding, for the non-industrial welding
in which wayside welders are the focus, little information is known of them. The
purpose of the study was to assess wayside welders‟ application of safety measures in
welding. The research used the qualitative research design on 57 wayside welders in
the Jaman North District sampled by the snowball non-probability method. A
pretested structured interview guide was used to collect data which was entered and
analysed using the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS, version 25)
software. The results showed that all the respondents were males. A majority (94.7%)
of welders were aware of safety measures with only 5.3% who were not aware.
Again, safety measures adopted by wayside welders included the use of PPEs, good
housekeeping and safe working procedures. Welders did not use the recommended
PPES to protect themselves while working. They rather used ordinary sunglasses and
did not protect their ears, eyes, nose and feet while working. The most adopted and
applied safety measure by the welders were the use of PPES, good housekeeping and
safe working procedures. It was concluded that welders‟ awareness of safety
measures did not translate into their use to provide safety among welders. This calls
for concern and need for more preventive measures within this occupational group to
avoid injuries and illness through government and non-governmental interventions.
Description:
A Project Work in the Department of MECHANICAL AND AUTOMOTIVE
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, Faculty of TECHNICAL EDUCATION,
submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Education Winneba,
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Technology
Education (Mechanical) degree
OCTOBER, 2018