TITLE:
Impact of Safety-Maintenance Practices on the Overall Performance of an Industry
AUTHORS:
Kwame Dubik, Cletus Akasika, Nicholas Naawie, Francis Dery, Francis Azum Abunkudugu
KEYWORDS:
Safety-Maintenance Practices, Mechanical Engineering Industry, Ghana, Maintenance Engineering, Organizational Culture, Equipment Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Maintenance Strategies
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Engineering and Technology,
Vol.12 No.3,
August
26,
2024
ABSTRACT: The study aims to evaluate how safety-maintenance practices affect the mechanical engineering industry’s overall performance in Ghana. The study used a descriptive survey design technique to ascertain the type of maintenance engineering that was practiced in Ghanaian mechanical engineering workshops at the time of the study. In the mechanical engineering workshops, respondents provided both qualitative and quantitative data using a variety of data collecting instruments, with the quantitative approach being more common. The study employed Kumasi, Tamale, and Accra’s mechanical engineering workshops as a case study. The number of mechanical engineering workshop enterprises that made up the sample size for the questionnaire administration was sixty (60), chosen at random from the AGI membership registry. Primary data was gathered using interview guides and questionnaires. To analyse the data, descriptive statistics were employed. According to the study’s findings, mechanical engineering companies combined different maintenance techniques in order to best fit their organisational culture and equipment. Preventive shut-down, with a mean score of 4.78 and RII = 0.98, placing first (1st) in the Likert rating order, is the most frequently used maintenance system by respondents. The maintenance procedures employed by mechanical engineering organisations were influenced not only by their equipment and organisational culture but also by other factors such as cost, personnel expertise and external partnerships.