Nkolimwa, D2022-06-212022-06-212020Nkolimwa, D (2020)The influence of management practices on occupation health and safety in the tanzania’s small scale mining firms,Doctoral dissertation,University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaamhttp://41.86.172.12:8090/xmlui/handle/123456789/16645Available in print form, East Africana collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, class mark (THS EAF HD7651.3.N564)The influence of management practices on occupation health and safety in the tanzania’s small scale mining firms Dominic Nkolimwa Phd (Business Administration) University of Dar es Salaam, University of Dar es salaam Business School, 2020 This study examines how management practices can influence the implementation of occupation health and safety at the workplace in the Tanzania’s small scale mining firms by considering the mediating effects of perceived compliance cost. The thrust of the study were to: analyse the influence of employee’s involvement in occupational health and safety at workplace; establish the influence of safety training on occupational health and safety workplace; delineate the influence of employees’ communication on occupational health and safety at the workplace and assess the mediating effect of perceived compliance costs on the relationship between management practices and occupational health as well as safety at the workplace. It sequentially deployed quantitative and qualitative approaches. The small scale mining employees operating in Tanzania were the population of this study. The unity of inquiry was small scale mining employees. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyse data gathered from 297 small scale mining firms’ employees. They study tested the models and verified all hypotheses on direct and indirect effect of management practices on occupational health and safety at workplace. Also 18 interviewees were interviwed to provide the incorporated qualitative findings. Using the ERG Theory, the results demonstrate that safety training (ST) and Employees’ Communication (EC) have positive influence on the implementation of Organization of Safety Support (OSS) and Proactive Hazard Control (PHC) which are shown by the implementation of health and safety at workplace. In relation to the contingency. Theory, the findings further revealed that perceived compliance cost full mediated the relationship between EC and the implementation of OSS and PHC at the workplace. It was also found out that the perceived compliance cost full mediated the relationship between ST programmes and the implementation of OSS and PHC at the workplace. These results imply that safety training and employees’ communication should be enhanced by managers so as to improve the implementation of the health and safety at workplace.enIndustrial hygiene,Small business,Mineral industries,TanzaniaThesis