Influence of occupational safety, health and environment on teachers' performance of duties in selected secondary schools of Limuru District, Kenya

Abstract

Today technological progress and intense competitive pressures bring rapid change in working conditions work processes and organization. These have consequently led to new hazards and risks to which workers are exposed to. Recently there has been a sustained focus on understanding the school as an organization in which all sectors are looking to maximize productivity and efficiency and ensure long term sustainability of their business, to achieve this; the well being of workers is of great importance, especially when sickness presence is costing more than absence. It is imperative that employers focus on employees' safety, health and environment in the workplace, and tackle occupational safety, health and environment challenges continuously, and build effective responses into dynamic management strategies.

Teachers have always played a crucial role in all educational processes, this has all along been recognized and stressed in all recent evaluations of the educational setup in this country, their performance is however, the most crucial input in education field, whatever policies one may lay down in the ultimate analyses these has to be interpreted and implemented by teachers. The promotion of their occupational wellbeing is very important as this; together with the school practices may go a long way in promoting healthy learning

Efforts to predict and explain differences in level of performance among teachers has dominated the work of psychologists, researchers and policymakers from this one thing is clear, that performance of teachers is not commensurate with their qualifications and professional training possessed by them, but rather a sum of many contributory factors.

Based on this reason, this study therefore will investigate the O.S.H.E of teachers in public secondary schools in limuru district as well as establish the influence these have on teachers' performance of duties