GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The study assess the availability and use of safety equipment in workshops in technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State. The population of the study consist of 373 teacher in the six public technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State. A sample of 148 teachers was randomly selected from these technical colleges. Two research questions were formulated to guide the study. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire and was first validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronback’s alpha reliability coefficient for Likert type scales which yielded a reliability collected coefficient result of 0.83. Data collected were analysed using mean and frequency counts. Result shows that safety equipment in technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State was not always available to support training and that teachers do not use safety equipments during training. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others that training of academic staff should be a continuous exercise to ensure consistent improvement in the quality of technical teachers and government at all levels should be adequately funded and supported for safety programmes through scholarship awards, supply of safety equipments, finding of research programmes and works through grants, provide current books and journals in order to meet the required needs for competent staff performance in handling safety equipments.