Occupational Health and Safety among Street Traders in, Nigeria
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This study examined two important types of occupational hazards in the street trading activities in Nigeria which
are (i) injuries sustained from road traffic accident and (ii) harassment of traders through indiscriminate arrest,
seizure and confiscation of merchandise and occasional incarceration of sellers in police cells. The data for the
study was generated from a 2011 national survey of 3,873 street traders in Nigeria which was made possible
through a research grant provided by the Covenant University's Centre for Research and Development. In
addition to the descriptive statistics used in profiling the street traders, the binary logistic regression approach
-was also used to estimate the log of odds of experiencing occupational hazards in street trading activities. The
study found out that 25 percent of the traders have suffered injury, while 49.1 percent have experienced
harassment from public authority officials. Given these findings, policy measures that would focus on integrated
national development, provide alternative selling points off the main streets for traders who cannot hire a shop,
create more decent jobs for educated youths who are forced to take up street trading due to long spell of
. unemployment, among others, were proposed.
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H Social Sciences (General)