Critical assessment of occupational health hazard in hospitality industry in Kano state, Nigeria

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> It is a known fact that different occupations are occupied with different forms of hazard. Regardless to the nature, size and the enterprise scope of operation, the occupations available in the enterprise are no doubt associated with one form of hazard or the other. The purpose of this study was to critically assess the occupational hazard in hospitality industry in Kano state.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A total of 384 people from the selected hotels were recruited to form the sample of the study using simple random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection in the study was self-administered semi-structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) version 20. </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> In this study…