Occupational Health Hazards and Safety Measures

Occupational Health Hazards and Safety Measures

Oviya Utheyakumar

G. Selvaraj, R.Kandasamy

Masters in Industrial Safety Engineering,

Selvam College of Technology, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu.

ABTRACT

Occupational safety and health is an area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goals of occupational safety and health programs include fostering a safe and healthy work environment. This study was to assess the existing situation of occupational health and safety in the textile industries of Lahore. The study also focused to analyze the health and safety related issues in the industries along with their risk assessment and to evaluate work related diseases which affects the health of labors. Health, safety and risk analysis were carried out in large scale textile industries of Lahore. To carry out this assessment survey was conducted from workers in both industries. The questionnaire was based on working time, number of accidents, cause of accident, affected part of body, nature of injury, use of personal protection equipment’s(PPE), health safety policy, first aid facility and risk analysis was based on severity and likelihood of workers. Results showed that the mostly noise level, illumination level, humidity level, and stack emission values were within the NEQS and OSHA values. Pearson’s chi-square showed the significance (p = 0.05) relation between affected part of respondent and working section, nature of injury and working section. The overall health safety policy was not well applied and mostly workers were unaware about PPE.

Keywords: safety, work, health, accidents.