Occupational Health and Safety in Nigeria: Managing Employees’ Well-Being in the Post-COVID-19 World of Work

Abstract

The objective of the study is to examine the management of occupational health and safety of employees in the post-COVID-19 world of work in the Nigerian context. This is imperative in view of the poor state of health facilities in Nigeria as elsewhere in developing countries. The study is anchored on the socio-psychological theory and the Kurt Lewin’s force-field model of change. The historical research design was adopted with the extensive use of secondary data. The authors recommended that both employers and governments should put in place public-health education programmes and campaigns to increase awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace. Employers and governments should invest massively in occupational health and safety and should insist on workers’ total compliance with safety protocols with a view to curbing the rate of transmission of the pandemic in the workplace and in the Nigerian society at large.

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