Ergonomic Principles and Its Application on Physical Equipment Used in Hotel Establishment in Lagos State, Nigeria

This study focus on the effect of Ergonomic principles and its application on physical equipments used in selected hotels in Lagos state Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the awareness of types of physical equipment used among staffs in the selected hotel, determine Ergonomic-related hazards in the hotel and recommend better ways of using physical equipments in hotels. The researchers adopted cross sectional survey research design. The study population consist of all the three thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven (3,487) hotels from the five (5) administrative divisions, often referred to as zones, these are Ikeja, Badagry, Ikorodu, Lagos Island and Epe which comprising different categories/classes Accessibility sampling technique was use for the study. The researchers made use of well-structured questionnaire in obtaining the needed information from the respondents. . The Krejcie and Morgan table was used to select the sample size for the study. To ensure reliability of the instrument, it was subjected to Cronbach Alpha reliability test. Simple descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentage, mean and standard deviation was used to analyze respondents’ personal data and research questions while correlation analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The findings showed that majority of the hotels in lagos State are aware of the types physical equipment with regards to ergonomics practices with the highest response of 336(74,7%)in training on the use of physical equipment in their workplace. Hotels should conduct comprehensive ergonomic assessments of their workspaces to identify potential hazards and areas for improvement. These assessments should be performed regularly to adapt to any changes in the work environment and staff needs