Creating Awareness on Occupational Health anti Safety among Workers Employed in Garment Industries

dc.categoryJournal Article
dc.contributor.authorVeninathi, A
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-04T22:19:50Z
dc.date.available2017-03-04T22:19:50Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.departmentFamily Resource Managementen_US
dc.description.abstractAwar'eness o f the need to impleinent, maintain and improve a system o f occupational health and safety (OHS) management has been initiated among worke7s employed in gaiirtent indusn‘ies located in Tirupitr, India. The awareness prograrntrie corisisted o f two parts. In the fir s t part, public meeting was conducted in collaboration with Hon- Covernrnenta I Organization (NGO- involving experts invarious field s o f occupational hea lth) twice in two consecutive y e a r s to crea te a wareness f o r g a nnen t w orkers as well a s public In the second part, a\w reness p rogramrne fo r wo rkers v,'as o rganized in selected fiv e g a rm en t industries by the investigator using d eveloped course content with the help o f resource persons specia liz ed in lab ou r laws, physiotherapy, pulmonology, nutrition, y o g a and field publicity. Differer^t m ass media wer-e used in the awareness programme. The impact o f the pi'ogramme was evaluated using a checklist which was administered before and a fte r the programme. The analysis o f the checklist rev ea led that 80 p e r cent o f the participants g a in ed knowledge from a\\.xireness programme. Hence, there waj; a signific am improvernerit in the knowledge o f the wor'kers after the awareness progryamme.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/1867
dc.langEnglishen_US
dc.publisher.nameINTERNATIONAL JOURNAl OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHen_US
dc.publisher.typeInternationalen_US
dc.titleCreating Awareness on Occupational Health anti Safety among Workers Employed in Garment Industriesen_US
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