Kingpin Milieu of Safety and Occupational Health Hazards-The Unorganized Sector and Women Labourers
| dc.category | Conference Proceedings | |
| dc.contributor.author | Visalakshi Rajeswari, S | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-06T19:51:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-06T19:51:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.department | Family Resource Management | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Unorganised sector with its telltale features of fatiguing job patterns, non-ergonomic work environments, work overload, mental and physical stresses, humiliation, insult, harassment, unsafe work environments, job insecurity and social isolation, render women labourers in these sectors - the maximum represented group - vulnerable, physically strained and mentally/emotionally trapped. They are helpless with lesser possibility for social security and health insurance. They live the lives of the victims of destiny and suffer many occupation impacted distresses including work related musculo-skeletal disorders (WMSDs), orthopaedic, gynaecological, pulmonary and skin related diseases. Women, again, are the victims of multi-tasking as they bear the responsibilities of the household and the work spot alike. In both the situations, they emerge the invisible, but the conspicuous contributors. For these women, domestic work, perhaps, is yet another unorganized sector to which they switch over alternately from the work spot. The cumulative effects of these environments definitely leave a negative signature in the form of health hazards and an eternal strife for visibility and identity. This paper discusses the plight of women labourers in three such unorganized sectors. The findings focussed that all the labourers (irrespective of the sector working in) were prone to WMSDs, Chemical pollutants and ergonomic problems. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/1881 | |
| dc.lang | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher.name | National Conference on Occupational Health and Stress | en_US |
| dc.publisher.type | National | en_US |
| dc.title | Kingpin Milieu of Safety and Occupational Health Hazards-The Unorganized Sector and Women Labourers | en_US |
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