ABSTRACT

OSHA,(Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is designed to ensure that every working man and woman is safe and have a healthy working condition.

There are a lot of factors that are associated with OSHA and need to be considered. This work used factorial analysis to examine these factors affecting occupational safety.

The essence was to ascertain the individual and collective role of these factors so as to help safety practitioners on what to do and what they need not do.

KCC was used to rank 32 variables identified from literature in descending order of importance. The PCA was used to analyze a set of questionnaire crafted with the variables which was then administered to knowledgeable respondents. The statistiXL saw several outputs like correlation matrix, case-wise factor scores, varimax rotated factor loadings, scree plot among others.

Finally, interpretation was rendered. The results gavhe five clusters named organizational culture, safety rules implementation, work situation, human error and emergency approach

This research work has provided us the opportunity to further know some factors and variables dealing with occupational safety.