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Ogbuehi Desmond, Ntegun Emmanuel Lawson.

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ABSTRACT The study job-related hazards associated with traffic wardens in Port Harcourt metropolis sought to examine the physical hazards, chemical hazards, psychosocial hazards, biological hazards and the ergonomic hazards associated with traffic wardens in Port Harcourt metropolis, Rivers State. Three objectives, three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The study was carried out in Rivers State. This study adopted a Descriptive cross-sectional survey design. The population of the study was 846 traffic wardens and the sample size was 400 respondents, comprising 280 Male Wardens and 110 Female wardens’ officers in Port Harcourt metropolis. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled “Occupational Hazards Associated with Traffic Warden”. The instrument was structured on five point likert type rating scale of Strongly agree (SA), Agree (A), Undecided (U), Disagree (D) and Strongly Disagree (SD). The instrument was subjected to face and content validation by three experts. A reliability coefficient of 0.76 was established with the aid of SPSS software. The findings reveals that traffic wardens are associated with physical hazards with a grand mean value of 3.982 and 3.983 for male and female wardens, psychosocial hazard with grand mean value of 3.955 and 3.933, biological hazards with grand mean value of 4.202 and 4.117 and ergonomic hazard with grand mean value of 4.011 and 3.992 for male and female wardens respectively. Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations were made: Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) should embark on road traffic education, training and prevention of hazard, which are the best methods for managing the adverse health effects that are common among male and female traffic wardens, Ministries in charge of labour and productivity should from time to time go for inspection of male and female traffic wardens on duties and ascertain the hazards that are prevalent to them and adopt proper preventive measures and suggestion for further studies were also made. Keywords: Job-related hazards, traffic wardens.

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