OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Praveen Kumar M, Mugundhan.K, Visagavel.K

Abstract: The study of Occupational Health and Safety in Textile industry examines to promote Health and safety to the workers in India. The Hazards and risk involved in the textile industry is high compared with other industries and least importance are given to textile industries. Most of accident do not come to the legal formalities. The People are not aware of Health & safety is due to the workers are uneducated and management not given importance due to promote OHS in Textile industry becomes a barriers in implementing OHS. The major hazards happen are physical, chemical, ergonomically & physiologically hazards along with these some of things which can create hazards are more working hours, improper ventilation. The RPN(Risk priority number) has been find out for all the hazards in the textile industry and FEA(fault tree analysis) is done for the hazard with highest RPN no.

Keywords: occupational health safety, Hazards, risk, legal formalities, working hours, RPN.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0323037