Abstract
The study investigated the willingness and compliance on the use of safety
protective clothing by road cleaners in Samaru and Sabon-Gari areas of Kaduna,
North-West Nigeria. Specifically, the study determined indicators of road
cleaners’ willingness to use protective clothing and indicators of road cleaners’
willingness to comply with instructions of usage/wearing of protective clothing.
Two research questions and one hypothesis was tested in this study. The study
adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population for the study
was two hundred and seven road cleaners assigned to the study area. Random-
convenience sampling was used to select 80 road cleaners from the population.
Data was collected using a questionnaire and was analysed using mean. The
benchmark for acceptance was 2.50. The grand mean of the results in the Tables 1
and 2 were 2.54 and 2.56 respectively. The findings of the study revealed that
majority of the road cleaners were willing to use the safety protective clothing
but they were unwilling to comply with the usage/wearing instructions. The
hypothesis test revealed that willingness to use had a negatively weak
relationship with willingness to comply with usage instructions (r = -0.311, P<
0.000). The study therefore among others recommended that supervisors of road
cleaners should not only be concerned about the quality of work done by the
road cleaners but should also monitor their compliance to usage instructions of
their protective clothing.