Abstract:
The study was carried out to determine safety practice skills required by metalwork students of technical colleges for effective operation in the workshop. A Survey research design was used. The population for the study comprised 64 experienced and less experienced metal work teachers in five technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire. Six research questions and hypotheses were formulated. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data for answering research questions while t-test analysis was used to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05 level of significance. The study found that 10 safety practice skills were required by students in using metalwork hand tools, 10 for effective operation of machine tools, 13 for handling metalwork materials, six for welding operations, five for forging operations and 10 for foundry operations. There was no significant difference between the mean responses of respondents on the safety practice skills required by metalwork students in: using hand tools, operating machine tools effectively, handling Metalwork Materials, welding operations, forging operations and foundry operations. Based on these findings, it was recommended that all the identified safety practice skills should be integrated into metal work curriculum of technical colleges in Nigeria.
