Compliance towards health safety practices by students at the dyeing studio in Ghana
Abstract
Purpose
Safety-related issues are prominent in dyeing workplaces and studios that result in accidents. The purpose of this study is to investigate the compliance towards health safety practices by students at the dyeing studios in selected universities in Ghana.
Design/methodology/approach
A structured online questionnaire was developed and used to collect 285 responses from students studying at the textile and fashion department of ten universities in Ghana. The study used the partial least square (PLS) algorithm of the structural equational modelling (SEM) by bootstrapping with 5,000 samples in the SmartPLS-SEM version 4.0.
Findings
Students exhibited good attitudes with significant knowledge regarding health safety hazards at the dyeing studio. Results revealed that students’ attitudes significantly and positively affect their knowledge of health safety hazards; hence, as attitude increases, their knowledge of health safety hazards also increases. However, institutional support significantly and negatively affects the knowledge of health safety hazards by students at the dyeing studio. Subsequently, institutional support significantly and positively affects students’ attitudes towards health safety hazards at the dyeing studio; hence, as institutional support increases, their attitude towards health safety hazards also increases. In the moderation analysis, results showed that students’ attitude dampens the negative relationship between institutional support and student’s knowledge.
Practical implications
Work-related safety at the dyeing studios is very important to help drive for an injurious free hands-on practice with dyeing activities. Hence, the findings of this study call on institutions to provide appropriate personal protective equipments and first aid kits, effective training and supervision for workspace safety at the dyeing studios for students. This would go a long way to maintain good health safety practices during students’ dyeing activities at the studio, hence eliminating possible hazards.
Originality/value
The present study provides an in-depth understanding of how key variables such as institutional support influence the knowledge and attitude of students towards studio dyeing practices. Key findings from the study reiterated the importance of training workshops, state-of-the-art studios and adherence to safety by students to prevent injuries.
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Acknowledgements
The authors expressed sincere appreciation to all respondents who provided their responses (as data) for this research. They also thank the reviewers for their comments to improve the research.
Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Funding: There is no funding for this study.
Conflict of interest disclosure: The authors declared no financial or any conflict of interest in this study.
Ethics approval statement: Respondents were informed about the purpose of the study; hence, their consent was taken before they proceeded to answer the online questionnaire on their electronic devices.
Citation
Seidu, R.K., Fobiri, G.K., Tekper, E., Ofori, E.A., Eghan, B., Afriyie, A.O., Acquaye, R., Asinyo, B.K. and Howard, E.K. (2024), "Compliance towards health safety practices by students at the dyeing studio in Ghana", Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/RJTA-05-2024-0061
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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