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 techniques needed to motivate skill learning in electrical and electronic workshops and laboratories for competency in electrical and electronic work. 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 the respondents consisting of 30 lecturers, technicians and 160 students from electrical/electronic engineering departments in the two polytechnics in Niger State. No sampling was used since the population was not large enough for sampling. 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. This will in turn motivate students to effectively learn the expected skill and attitude in the workshop.