Vocational and Technical Education Journal

The study was focused on ergonomic practices of hazards prevention of technologists in the electrical/electronic workplaces in Enugu State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significant. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The population for the study consisted of 69 respondents (supervisors and lecturers) generated from 18 electrical industries in Enugu State and there was no sampling for the study. Questionnaire which is in four point responses strongly agreed, Agreed, Disagreed and Strongly Disagreed was used for data collection which consists of 57 items developed from the reviewed literature. The instrument was validated by three experts in the Department of Industrial Technical Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach alpha reliability method and a coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. Data was collected by the researcher with 98% returned rate. Data collected was analyzed to answer the research questions. The major findings shows that handling power and hand tools like; tester, soldering iron, drier, pliers, screw driver, chisel, hammer, stepping on obstructions left on floors such as nails, pieces of irons or bare conductor, operating an unguarded electrical machine can cause hazard. Therefore the study recommended among others that Electrical/electronic technologists should be encouraged to put on their personal protective equipments (PPE) in other to prevent hazards

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