Assessment of Occupational Safety and Health Management Practices and Workplace Safety Satisfaction among Healthcare Workers in Two Tertiary Hospitals in Rivers State, Nigeria

Background: Healthcare workers face occupational hazards that require coordinated prevention, reporting, and management responses. This study described healthcare workers' assessments of occupational safety and health management practices and their satisfaction with workplace safety in two teaching hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey included demographic information from 385 staff. Each of the 15 management-system items, 10 safety-satisfaction items, and two 10-item domains addressing organisational and employee-related factors had 315 tabulated binary responses. Descriptive frequencies and percentages were summarised using the recorded item-specific denominators. Results: Across 15 management-system items, 1,265 of 4,725 responses (26.8%) were affirmative. Positive responses were least common for perceived management commitment (13.7%), clear safety policies (18.1%), and emergency response training (19.7%). Across safety-satisfaction items, 1,094 of 3,150 responses (34.7%) were affirmative; the overall satisfaction statement received 39.4% affirmative responses. Organisational and employee-related statements received 33.6% and 30.9% affirmative responses, respectively, although negatively phrased employee items preclude interpreting that aggregate as a favourable-factor score. Conclusions: The recorded item responses indicate substantial perceived gaps in several occupational safety practices in these two hospitals. Item-level frequencies should not be interpreted as the proportion of individuals with effective management systems or satisfactory overall safety. The difference between the 385 demographic respondents and 315 tabulated item responses limits interpretation of representativeness and scale-level outcomes.