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ABSTRACT Health and Safety (H&S) training is one of the most widely adopted practices for improving workplace safety. Existing H&S literature focuses more on the training of workers in construction firms of developed nations. This leaves out issues of H&S training of workers in the construction firms of developing nations such as Nigeria. The result of this is the problem of poor safety performance in the form of higher rate ...

ABSTRACT   Given the high proportion of fatal and non-fatal accidents occurring in the construction industry, construction companies constantly seek different and novel strategies to reduce the number of work-related accidents. One such strategy that is mentioned often in the literature is formal, well organized and effective safety training. However, the current safety management literature reported on the effectiveness of health & safety training of large construction firms only operating ...