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This research evaluates how workplace strain affects safety outcomes among personnel in Niger Delta oil and gas operations. Data gathered from 400 randomly selected employees across purposively chosen companies was examined through structural equation modelling, correlation, and regression techniques. The assessment demonstrated that elevated occupational stress and job burnout both lead to marked decreases in safe working practices and overall safety performance. Statistical analyses confirmed negative relationships across these variables, identifying safety behaviour as an important mediating factor between employee exhaustion and organisational safety records. Consequently, unmanaged stress and burnout amongst staff actively diminish compliance with safety procedures and compromise institutional safety targets in the extractive sector.
In high-risk settings like the oil and gas industry, workplace accidents can cause serious environmental and physical harm. This study highlights that technical rules alone are not enough to maintain safety standards: psychological factors like fatigue and stress directly undermine compliance, meaning employee wellbeing must be addressed to prevent costly industrial incidents.
The findings are applied and tested through survey data, offering evidence that could inform occupational health programmes and risk management interventions for energy companies. Potential end users include oil and gas human resource departments, safety managers, and workplace wellness consultants looking to design targeted stress-mitigation policies to improve field safety.
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Occupational stress and work burnout may influence workers’ engagement in safe work practices and the safety performance of oil and gas organisations. This study investigated the impact of occupational stress and work burnout on the safety behaviour and safety performance of workers in oil and gas companies in the Niger Delta. A structured questionnaire was administered to 400 employees selected through random sampling, while the oil and gas companies were selected purposively. Data were analysed using SPSS version 16 and AMOS. The analysis revealed good internal consistency across all measures, with Cronbach's alpha values ranging from 0.72 to 0.83. A structural equation model was developed using IBM AMOS. Descriptive statistics (means, percentages, and weighted mean scores), correlation analysis, regression analysis, and structural equation modelling were used. These methods were suitable because they quantified respondents' opinions or perceptions of the constructs related to occupational stress, safety behaviour, and safety performance in the sampled oil and gas firms. Regarding safety performance, the coefficients for occupational stress (OCS) and work burnout (WB) were -0.389 and -0.317, respectively. Regarding safety behaviour, the corresponding coefficients were -0.452 and -0.374. Occupational stress and work burnout had significant negative impacts on workers' safety behaviour and safety performance. Overall, occupational stress and work burnout substantially and negatively affected safety performance and safety behaviour among workers in oil and gas firms in the Niger Delta. The findings indicate that safety behaviour plays a substantial mediating role in the impact of occupational stress and work burnout on the safety performance of oil and gas firms in the Niger Delta.
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DOI: 10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i94439
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