Knowledge, awareness and prevalence of safety cultures workers of indigenous oil and gas firms operating in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria

The study examined the knowledge, awareness and prevalence of safety cultures workers of indigenous oil and gas firms operating in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria. Response of 482 oil and gas workers from the sampled oil and gas companies in Nigeria (Niger Delta) on safety culture was collected using a structured survey questionnaire consisting of safety culture’s contributing constructs from four (4) domains in the cross-sectional descriptive research. However, descriptive statistics were employed for the study. Findings from the study show that there is a moderate domain’s mean values from the constructs for knowledge, awareness and prevalence; communication strategy; management commitment; and adoptive strategy (3.153, 3.175, 3.177 and 3.402 respectively) indicating moderate impact on safety performances, participation including safety compliance. It can be concluded that proper knowledge, awareness and prevalence of the safety culture contributed the least components to safety climates and there was no discernible difference between the practices of safety cultures in the indigenous oil and gas companies in the Niger Delta Region. It is recommended that there is need for more concerted effort in developing safety cultures in the indigenous oil and gas companies and adequate sanctions should be given to any industry that fails to comply. Also, the routine safety assessment should be carried out by firms with a view to receiving recommendations from employees on how to improve the safety culture of the firms in all upstream, midstream and downstream sectors.