OBSERVANCE OF HEALTH, SAFETY, SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES BY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT FIRMS ON COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IN LAGOS
Kazeem .B. AKINBOLA, PhD; Iyabo .A. OLADENI AND Adeleye .G. ODEWANDE, Volume 6 Issue 1, 2022 Pages 53-68, Published: 2023-06-23
Abstract
Generally, workplace dynamics which encapsulates among other things, inter and intra movements of persons, materials, goods and even services, all with targential requirements that call for FM concerns in terms of health, safety, security and environmental safeguards, with central motives revolving around tranquillity in workplace thereby increasing the per capital productivity of individual workers, as well as overall collective turn-over of the organisation. Hence the need to assess the level of observance of HSSE policies and practices of FM services providers with respect to the commercial real estate sub-sector of the Lagos property market, as it was established that, availability of health, safety, security and environmental policies, notwithstanding, risks and accidents of unimaginable dimensions are still prevalent among commercial real estate in particular, leading to casualties sometimes, especially among the high-rise multi-users commercially held properties, with overall suspicion to doubt the observance of HSSE policies by FM service providers, the assessment of which forms the basis for conducting this research.. Survey research design was adopted and data were collected using 125 copies of 5- point Likert scale questionnaires. From which 106 copies were retrieved, translating to 84.8% distributionretrieval rate. Descriptive and inferential statistics laced with mean and standard deviation were used for the analysis. Results show that there are significant levels of observance of health, safety, health and environmental policies by FM services providers on commercial real estate via institutionalisation of HSSE procedural framework FM service providers to key into, as well as upskilling of commercial real estate users’ understanding of HSSE policies and practice through bespoke trainings, with standard deviation output of 0.798 and 0.795 respectively, but paradoxically, the observance failed to impressively translate to expected contributions of HSSE policies in terms of values and eases the stringency of the safety tasks of FM service providers with a somewhat low standard deviation output of 0.451. The study concluded by suggesting among other things, that there is need for increased sensitisation as well as regulatory monitoring by relevant government agencies on HSSE with a view to improving upon the present appalling state of impact of the HSSE policies observance by FM service providers on the real estate industry