http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/94 Msc EHSM 2025-12-01T14:42:32Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/134 Title: An Assessment of The Level of Personal Protective Equipment Usage Among Employees in Road Construction Projects: Authors: Happy, Peter Murwanyi Abstract: The use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) remains one of the best measures ensuring workplace safety for workers in the construction sector. This study assessed PPE usage amongst road construction projects in two cities of Uganda. It specifically established the level of employee awareness about PPE usage, determined management‟s involvement in implementation of PPE usage and the factors affecting usage of PPE on road construction sites. Both structured and semi- structured interviews with workers and management were conducted. Thematic, descriptive and inferential statistics including ANOVA tests, Binary logistic regression model and Relative Importance Index (RII) were ccarried out to analyze data. Results indicated that over 92% of the road construction workers were aware of PPE usage as a legal requirement at work. Masks (64%), goggles (16.4%) safety shoes (82.8%), earmuffs (17.6%) and gumboots (14.8%) were the commonly used PPEs by the workers. The common strategies for implementing PPE usage by management included setting policies and guidelines on PPE usage (64.29%) and ensuring availability of sufficient PPE to workers (61.9%) while penalties (95.05%) and incentives/awards (57.1%) were the least used strategies. The organizational factors that influenced PPEs usage among the workers included provision of PPEs by employer (RII = 0.6544) and availability of sufficient PPEs (RII = 0.5544). Psychological factors included discomfort from PPE usage (RII = 0.5232) and previous knowledge on PPE (RII = 0.4608). Economic/ environmental factors previous training on PPE (RII = 0.5976) and frequent supervision on PPE usage at workplaces (RII = 0.6616). There was no significant association between socio- economic factors namely; Age (p = 0.56), gender (p = 0.392), education level (p = 0.601), work type (p = 0.854) with PPE usage. There is need to promote organization processes such as policies and trainings on PPE usage among road construction workers by the employers and relevant authority the ministry of works. Description: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Engineering, Design and Technology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of a Master of Science Environmental Health and Safety Management, Institute of Petroleum Studies Kampala with Affiliation To UCU 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/126 Title: An Analysis of The Role of Meta-Regulations in Guaranteeing Health, Safety and Environmental Safety in the Oil and Gas Sector of Uganda Authors: Andrew, Wabwezi Abstract: Much as the income derived from oil can propel Uganda’s development, such development, should be sustainable, ensuring that the exploitation of oil doesn’t deprive current and future generations of a clean and safe environment. The Oil and Gas Industry is fraught with a lot of risks and hazards that have caused health and safety catastrophes that have at times led to fatalities. Parliament in line with its constitutional legislative mandate, made Laws and Regulations to regulate health, safety and environmental safety of the oil and gas aspects. This study was about the analysis of the role of Meta-Regulation in guaranteeing health, safety and environmental safety in oil and gas sector of Uganda. The study used the Doctrinal Research Method together with the Comparative Legal Analysis Research Method. Using these methods, the Meta-regulations of health, safety and environmental safety were analyzed and also compared to those Norway and Kenya. Although Uganda uses both Prescriptive and Meta- regulations, this study only focused on the latter. Some of the findings in the study regarding the Health and Safety aspects include; that many vital technical terms were not defined to provide guidance and context to the operators. Attention was only given to conditions that could result into loss of work time, disability and fatalities, neglecting conditions that have a cumulative effect and may not cause any of the three listed conditions although may adversely affect a worker’s health. There was also a failure to emphasize that employees should participate in the making of Safety Cases, weak financial penalties for operators who violate the regulations, no guidance was given as to how qualitative or semi qualitative or quantitative risk assessment should be done. The analysis of the environmental safety aspects of Meta– Regulations revealed that there is no guidance as to whether qualitative or quantitative method of risk analysis should be used during risk assessment, there is no provision for submission of the policy statements for approval by the regulator, mitigation hierarchy does not state that biodiversity offsets should be done in the same area of loss. Some of the recommendations include that compliant Operators should be given certificates of compliance, there should be a provision that employees participate in the making of safety cases, the regulator should be able to partly accept to partly reject a Safety Case, the regulations should require that a Safety Case includes a place for refugee in case of an emergency and the organizational emergency should coordinate with public emergency preparedness. Description: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Science Technology, Department of Engineering & Environment in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Science in Environmental Health and Safety Management at the Institute of Petroleum Studies Kampala in Affiliation to UCU 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/95 Title: An Assessment of The Health and Safety Practices in Faecal Sludge Management in The Urban and Slum Areas of Kampala. Authors: Juliet, Nansikombi Abstract: Safe faecal sludge management has increasingly become an issue of public health concern in the development agenda. This study assessed the health and safety practices in faecal sludge management in the urban and slum areas of Kampala. A mixed research design was employed in this study. Data was collected at both the household level and from the sanitary operators working in the study areas. Both semi-structured and structured interviews were used to collect data using a questionnaire and interview guides as tools. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Multiple Regression Model. Results showed that some respondents at household level largely have good knowledge and attitude towards faecal sludge management with 98.4% stating that the activity is necessary, 74.1% own an onsite sanitary facility, 97.2% were aware of the need for emptiers to wear appropriate PPE when emptying toilets/latrines and 77.3% perceived the importance of latrine/toilet emptying. Ensuring good mechanical condition of vehicles (32%) and tightening barrel valves/covers (17.30%) were common sanitation practices amongst sanitary operators at the transportation stage although unsanitary practices such as leakage of horse pipes (30.3%) and entering the pit latrines or septic tanks during emptying (12%) also existed. The socio-economic factors were found to have a statistically significant influence on the safe feacal sludge management practices amongst the households in the study area. Human and or non- development and knowledge dissemination should be undertaken by relevant authorities such as National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) and Kampala Capital Authority (KCCA) to increase awareness on safe faecal sludge management amongst sludge emptiers and households respectively. Description: A Dissertation Submitted to The Faculty of Science Technology, Department of Engineering & Environment in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for The Award of The Degree of Master of Science in Environmental Health and Safety Management at The Institute of Petroleum Studies Kampala in Affiliation To UCU. 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z