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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Family Resource Management × Author: Pooja × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2016 ×
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    Occupational hazards among beauty parlour workers
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Pooja; Mehta, Manju
    The beauty care industry is one of the fastest growing industries of country. People are realizing the importance of good health and presentation and thus becoming more and more concerned about their health and beauty and visiting the beauty parlour. Women’s participation in the beauty activity shows the importance and contribution of women to economic productivity, there is need for occupational health and safety practices covering beauty parlor process. In the light of all these the present study was taken to investigate use of beauty parlours services by rural and urban families and appraisal of the work profile, work place, work environment and occupational hazards of beauticians. A sample of 50 customers from rural area and 50 from urban area were selected who were taking the services of beauty parlour and all the beauticians from 40 beauty parlours were selected purposively from Hisar city through snowball technique. The distance of parlour from home for preponderance of the customers was 0-2 Km. the thumping majority of customers were visiting to parlour for threading, followed by waxing. All the 100% of the beauticians had acquired training for beauty parlour service. 56% of the beauticians were not taking the rest during the work of beauty activity. Mean working year of the beauticians was 6.28 years and were spending 6-8 hours/day. All were using same types of instruments/tools and various brands of cosmetics. The extent of problems faced by the beauticians were long working hours (mean score 2.68), unnatural body posture (mean score 2.65) and ventilation not in sufficient amounts (mean score 2.53). Various furniture pieces were used to carry out the treatment and also during resting and waiting period. Most frequently occurred hazards was numbness followed by skin burn, skin itching, injury and swelling. Light, SPM was less than recommended value whereas, temperature, noise and carbon dioxide was more than recommended level in the most of the parlours. Most frequently occurred hazards was numbness (mean score 2.43) followed by skin burn, skin itching, injury and swelling. As per OWAS as well as RULA posture used in facial, hair treatment, hair cutting, make up, body massage and pedicure-manicure was not suitable and it needs to be changed instantly. The intensity of musculoskeletal discomfort as per human body map was highest in wrist/hand & neck (mean score 3.98) and facial activity got the highest VAD score of 9.77. The facial activity got highest posture load (posture load factor of 62), time load (time load factor of 97) and repetitive strain (repetitive strain load of 9). Hair treatment had highest physical load (physical load factor of 7.58). Body massage got highest pain load (pain load of 14.63). As per pain load maximum discomfort was in wrist, neck and lower back, trailed by shoulders, ankle/feet and fingers. Overall maximum occupational hazards of the beauticians were in facial with total score of 278.74, followed by hair treatment, body massage and waxing. The medium hazardous activities were pedicure-manicure, make-up and hair cutting. Bleaching and threading were least hazardous activity.