| dc.description.abstract | This research is about the relationship between health and safety programmes and
performance of manufacturing firms in Mombasa County, Kenya, the objective
being to establish the relationship between employee health and safety
programmes and performance of manufacturing firms. A descriptive survey
design was used and data was collected using a structured questionnaire
comprising of Likert-scale questions which were dropped and picked later from
respondents. The respondents were heads of departments in the manufacturing
firms that were studied. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as
mean, standard deviation, percentages and frequencies. Pearson correlation
analysis was used to determine the strength of the relationship between health and
safety programmes and how they related to work performance. The findings were
that many of the firms that responded had taken some health and safety measures
and that they had shown positive effect on work performance. Among the four
factors that were being investigated, health and safety measures, social welfare
programmes, accident prevention programmes and occupational health
programmes. The results showed that each of the four factors had a positive and
significant correlation with employee performance. Therefore, the implementation
of health and safety programmes at the work place has a positive impact on
employees’ performance. All organizations should implement health and safety
programmes, not just because it is a government requirement, but because it is of
great benefit to the organization, and it results to improved employee
performance, therefore achieving their goals of productivity and profitability. The
government, on the other hand, should ensure that it enforces the implementation
of health and safety programmes at the work place as well as sending inspectorate
teams to ensure that each firm is taking the right health and safety measures at the
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