As a trained petroleum engineer, I have critically appraised many industries in my locality, Nigeria, especially in the oil and gas during my period of industrial training. From my evaluation, I have observed that most industries’ knowledge about and attitude to occupational health are very limited. It is common knowledge that both human and material resources are asset an industry has to assist in achieving business objectives, as well as meeting legal and moral obligations in providing. Yet, my experience on the field with many workers in petroleum industries revealed to me that ‘these assets’ care less about occupational health. Further, in my five years on the training to become a certified petroleum engineer, I have been an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. In several meeting of the society in Nigeria, the issue of occupational health has always been raised but this is done without tenacity. This makes it appear to me as if the problem starts from lack of adequate knowledge as well as poor orientation toward meaning and benefit of occupational health both to the industry and its resources (human and non-human). In my quest for knowledge about efficiency and productivity in the oil and gas industry, I have realised that creating a safe work environment is critical to the success of any business/industry, and one of the best ways to retain staff and maximise productivity ensuring occupational health. Knowing full well that occupational health refers to the ‘identification’ and ‘control’ of the risks arising from physical, chemical, and other workplace hazards in order to establish and maintain a safe and healthy working environment, I consider it a promising area for me to acquire knowledge by which I may mitigate the problems I have identified above in industries. The common hazards I have recurrently seen in industries include chemical agents and solvents, heavy metals such as lead and mercury, physical agents such as loud noise or vibration, and physical hazards such as electricity or dangerous machinery. All these are inimical to the occupational life of industrial labor. I therefore consider it necessary to channel knowledge acquisition in the line that will address this problem of occupational hazards. Against this background, I seek an opportunity to research into causes and management of occupational hazard especially in mechanized industries such as the oil and gas. This will provide opportunities to investigate the relationships between hazardous working conditions and associated occupational hazard as well as acquiring knowledge about methods for measuring early markers of adverse health effects and injuries.

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