An investigation of Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) programmes costs to the performance of UNKI mine

Abstract

The study is on investigation of SHE programmes costs to the performance of Unki Mine. The problem was that the firm experienced decreases in profits and major finding was that there were no blue prints for cost cutting strategies implementation resulting in continuous increase in costs since the introduction of SHE programmes to the firm in 1995 and decrease of income and profits due to the changes in the market. Literature review was carried out in an attempt to explore on what authors said on SHE policies and programmes. The main sources of related literature were internet journals, accounting text books and accounting package developers websites. The researcher made use of descriptive research design where both qualitative and quantitative research design were made use of on questionnaires and interviews. A sample size of forty one was carried out. Both primary and secondary data were analyse, presented and interpreted. Presentation was in form of tables, graphs and pie charts that was simplified through the use of the Likert Scaling model. Conclusion and recommendations were made to the organisation to implement and communicate SHE policies regularly as well as job safety analysis on each specific task or job.