This research assesses the factors influencing construction site operative training in Nigeria with a view to enhancing safety practices among construction sites operatives. | Factors influencing construction site operative training in Nigeria International Journal of Management IJM Volume 10 Issue 1 January February 2018 93 Article ID IJM_10_01_012 Available online at http ijm JType IJM amp VType 10 amp IType 1 Journal Impact Factor 2018 Calculated by GISI ISSN Print 0976-6502 and ISSN Online 0976-6510 IAEME Publication FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSTRUCTION SITE OPERATIVE TRAINING IN NIGERIA Oni Amusan Akinbile Owolabi Ogundipe Department of Building Technology Covenant University Ota Ogun State Nigeria. ABSTRACT This research assesses the factors influencing construction site operative training in Nigeria with a view to enhancing safety practices among construction sites operatives. A cross-sectional research design was adopted where snowballing and random sampling techniques were used to select the construction company and the respondents. Respondents to be sampled were drawn from the list of professionals in the built environments such as Architect Quantity surveyors Builder and the Engineers and site operatives such as skilled unskilled semi-skilled labors and operators working with each construction company. Data were collected using a well-structured close- ended questionnaires designed based on the stated objectives of the study. 188 copies of questionnaires were distributed out of which 137 was completely filled and returned representing response rate. Returned data were analyzed using percentile Relative Important Index RII and independent Sample T-Test with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS software version . The result revealed that changes in government policy poor job performance quality improvement high rate of rework and technological changes were the major ranked factors influencing construction site operative training in Oyo State. It further show that there are significant difference in the opinion of site .
