Industrial Health Management and Safety in the Textile Industry
* Ajeet Jaiswal, **Sapna Jaiswal
*Dr. Ajeet Jaiswal, Assistant Professor, Department of
Anthropology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. Email: rpgajeet@gmail.com, Phone no. : 09791201427,
08122594335.
**Mrs Sapna Jaiswal, MBA, Indira Gandhi National Open University,
New Delhi.
Abstract:
Industrial health management and safety also commonly referred to
as Industrial health and safety or workplace health and safety is an area
concerned with the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or
employment. The goals of occupational safety and health programs include to foster
a safe and healthy work environment. Industrial health and safety may also
protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and many others who
might be affected by the workplace environment. Industrial health is a
multidisciplinary field of healthcare concerned with enabling an individual to
undertake their occupation, in the way that causes least harm to their health.
Health has been defined as it contrasts, for example, with the promotion of
health and safety at work, which is concerned with preventing harm from any
incidental hazards, arising in the workplace. This article aims at studying Industrial
Health Management and Safety issues in relation to the US and Indian textile industries
in detail, along with the possible solutions for these problems describing the
major safety and health issues in the textile industry like Workplace hazards, Exposure
to cotton dust, Exposure to chemicals, Exposure to noise, Ergonomic issues and Healthcare
and Social Assistance.
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Key words: Industrial Health
Management, Textile industry, Occupational Safety and Health programs.
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