Safety techniques for motivating skill learning in electrical and electronics workshops and laboratories for competency in electrical and electronics works.

Abstract

The study is designed to investigate the safety technique needed to motivate skill learning in electrical and electronics workshops and laboratories. In doing this, three (3) research questions were generated; two (2) null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance were also formulated to help guide the study. A 59 items questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents consisting of 30 Lecturers, 7 Technicians and 560 students from electrical and electronics engineering departments in the two polytechnics in Niger State. 320 students were sample but no sampling was carried out for Lecturers and Technicians since the population was not large enough. The result of responses from the respondents served as the data which was analyzed using frequency count, mean and analysis of variance (ANOVA) known as the f-test. The findings revealed that there is a need of safeguarding all hazardous equipment, organizing and directing learners work stations to avert any form of accident, keeping the shop clean, using colours for various demarcations and teaching safety whenever and wherever it is necessary, so that safety must be in the minds of learners. It was recommended among others that; This will in turn motivate students to effectively learn the expected skill and attitude in the workshop.