Proactive safety culture in Nigeria through engineering education: A key to the prevention of catastrophic incidents in the industry

Advances made in promoting a culture of preparedness through disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives are strong building blocks to promote more comprehensive changes at the policy level and strengthen resilience everyday lives children, families, schools, communities they serve. Proactive safety entails constantly ensuring efficacy systems, procedures, people. Process identification understanding potential hazards, evaluation consequences, safeguards, risks, addition layers protection prevent and/or mitigate incidents. The purpose this study is review proactive Nigeria engineering education as key prevention catastrophic incidents industry. A required protect employees, but it especially important for protecting students developing their skills awareness safety. questionnaire was developed obtain feedback from industry experts other stakeholders on appropriate contents an undergraduate course that will produce safety-conscious graduates ultimately Nigeria. These questions were asked following areas: assessment Nigeria, importance education, courses students. Based responses 250 questionnaires distributed 208 responses, curriculum suggested with possible 30 outlines could support different stages development, such, would be expected students’ improve progress degree.