RESEARCH JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
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DOI: 10.31248/RJBEM
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Employees’ safety training and management support: Safety management Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for organisational performance in Champion Breweries Plc, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
https://doi.org/10.31248/RJBEM2025.107 | Article Number: 810ADC611 | Vol.8 (3) - October 2025
Received Date: 28 January 2025 | Accepted Date: 20 August 2025 | Published Date: 30 October 2025
Authors: Augustine Brendan Inyang* and Madubuike, Emmanuel Soludo
Keywords: Safety management culture, safety leaders, safety-conscious attitudes, safety behaviours.
In today’s contemporary business landscape, safety management is strategic towards the attainment of organisational aims and objectives. As safety management critical success factors, employees’ safety training and management support contributes immensely towards the actualization of a safe work system in an organisation. The main objective of this study is to examine employees’ safety training and management support as safety management critical success factors (CSFs) for organisational performance of Champion Breweries Plc, Uyo, Nigeria. One research objective, which was transformed into a research question and research hypothesis was designed for the study. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 347 and was adopted as the sample size with the aid of the census sampling technique. Multiple regression analysis was used for data analysis. Results from the analysis showed that employees’ safety training and management support have a significant positive combined influence on the performance of the studied firm (R2 = 0.814, P<0.05). It was concluded that employees’ safety training and management support are safety management critical success factors that could enhance the performance of Champion Breweries Plc, Uyo, Nigeria. The researchers recommended that the management of the firm should ensure that safety training that is designed for employees is tailored to their safety needs as this will naturally elicit active involvement and participation among them. Also, safety training should be arranged periodically in the organisation as this will help management to acquire needed safety skills, competencies, and abilities that will enable them to support safety efforts in the organisation.
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