A Qualitative Investigation about Awareness of Occupational Health and Safety among Sawmill Workers in the City of Temples, Jammu

Authors

  • Johny Khajuria Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B.R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3759/joise.v4i1.1922

Abstract

The lightning growth of industries has become the major cause of health issues. Sawmill workers are not an exemption from being sufferers of various occupational diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate the awareness of sawmill workers with regard to their occupational health and felt requirements and issues towards use of protective gears. A qualitative study was conducted among thirty-eight sawmill workers. Majority of the workers were engaged in their work for 7–8 h/day. The majority of the participants (sawmill workers) were aware about PPEs but there were concerns over the expected and constant usage of them. It was also observed that none of the sawmill owners or sawmill workers followed the safety policies. Consumer friendly PPEs were not available for the sawmill workers.

References

Joshi TK, Smith KR. Occupational Health in India. Occup Med. 2001; 17: 371–389p.

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Wood Dust and Formaldehyde. Geneva/Lyon, France: International Agency For Re-search On Cancer/WHO; 1995. Available at: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/ vol62/mono62.pdf.

Dahlqvist M, Palmberg L, Malmberg P, et al. Acute Effects of Exposure to Air Contaminants in a Sawmill on Healthy Volunteers. Occup Environ Med. 1996; 53: 586–590p.

Barcenas Carlos H, Delclos George L, Randa El‐Zein Guillermo Tortolero‐Luna, et al. Wood Dust Exposure and the Association with Lung Cancer Risk. Am J Ind Med. 2005; 47(4): 349–357p.

Kacha Y, Nayak Y, Varu M, et al. Effects of Wood Dust on Respiratory Functions in Saw Mill Workers. Int J Basic Appl Physiol. 2014; 3(1): 122–128p.

Ali A, Qutubuddin SM, Hebbal SS, et al. An Ergonomic Study of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among the Workers Working in Typical Indian Saw Mills. International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD). 2012; 3: 38–45p.

Ugbebor JN, Yorkor B. Assessment and Evaluation of Noise Pollution Levels in Selected Sawmill Factories in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. International Journal on Emerging Technologies (IJET). 2015; 6(2): 1p.

Agbalagba EO, Akpata ANO, Olali SA. Investigation of Noise Pollution Levels of Four Selected Sawmill Factories in Delta State, Nigeria. Advances in Applied Acoustics (AIAAS). 2013; 2(3): 83–90p.

Bello SR, Mijinyawa Y. Assessment of Injuries in Small Scale Sawmill Industry of South Western Nigeria. Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal. Mar 2010; 12(1): 151–157p.

Funmbi AC. Influence of Sawmill Industries on the Health of Sawmill Workers and Inhabitant of the Environment in Ondo State Nigeria. Journal of Educational and Social Research (JESR). May 2015; 5(2): 299–304p.

Downloads

Published

2019-04-02

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Research Article

License

Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form

(to be completed by authors)

I/ We, the undersigned author(s) of the submitted manuscript, hereby declare, that the above manuscript which is submitted for publication in the STM Journals(s), is not published already in part or whole (except in the form of abstract) in any journal or magazine for private or public circulation, and, is not under consideration of publication elsewhere.

  • I/We will not withdraw the manuscript after 1 week of submission as I have read the Author Guidelines and will adhere to the guidelines.
  • I/We Author(s ) have niether given nor will give this manuscript elsewhere for publishing after submitting in STM Journal(s).
  • I/ We have read the original version of the manuscript and am/ are responsible for the thought contents embodied in it. The work dealt in the manuscript is my/ our own, and my/ our individual contribution to this work is significant enough to qualify for authorship.
  •  I/We also agree to the authorship of the article in the following order:

Author’s name                                    

 

1. ________________

2. ________________

3. ________________

4. ________________

 

We  Author(s) tick this box and would request you to consider it as our signature as we agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission if and when it is published by this journal.