Study of occupational health hazards among flour mill workers of Uttarakhand
| dc.contributor.advisor | Deepa Vinay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lohani, Dipti | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-30T04:59:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-30T04:59:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Flour mill industry is one of the oldest established industries in the country. The majority of units have an average installed capacity of 70 tons per day and only around 10 percent of the mills are above the capacity of 120 tons per day. The flour milling industry in India has grown to become over the years the largest organized sector for utilization of wheat in the country. Workers in the flour mill industry are highly exposed to dust and allergies. Due to dust allergies and repetitive tasks in the mill, fatigue is increased and it also leads to occupational health hazards among workers. Therefore, need was felt to provide flour mill workers simple interventions which can significantly reduce the rate of exposure to dust, allergies and occupational health hazards. Thus, the objectives of the current research was to investigate various activities performed by the workers of flour mill, to assess their allergic disorder caused by dust, and to provide them some personal protective equipment which was being adopted from various institutions. The purposive cum random sampling was used to select 120 respondents who were working in the flour mill and were engaged in different activities such as loading-unloading, packing and cleaning. Descriptive data was collected from 120 workers, 10% of the workers were selected for experimental data using medspiror. All the workers were selected from Guru Nanak Roller Flour Mills Pvt. Ltd. and R.K. Flour Mills, situated in Kichha and Lalpur, district Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand. An allergic disorder questionnaire was being developed. Findings of present research investigation revealed that workers of flour mills were of poor socio-economic status. Most workers were suffering from low back pain and musculoskeletal disorders due to working in the flour mill. Majority 53.33 percent respondents suffered of dust allergy. Majority (91.67%) were highly stressed of their work environment. Mostly workers were using physical coping stress management strategies to lower their fatigued. Experimental data collected with the help of ‘Medspiror’ which is an electronic computerized machine. It was revealed that respiratory parameters such as forced vital capacity peak expiratory flow rate, forced expiratory volume and forced expiratory flow before and during activity were assessed and were found that there is deference in pulmonary functions before activity and after working for eight hours in the flour mill. The workers working for long time were found highly exposed to dust than the workers who had not started work in the morning. To protect the workers from exposure to dust, personal protective equipment such as capron, beak mask and pleated masks were adopted from Department of Clothing and Textiles, Hissar Agriculture University, Hissar. These personal protective equipments were being suggested to the workers of flour mill. Workers tried to work after wearing capron, beak mask and pleated masks and they felt comfortable in doing work when exposed to flour dust. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810006383 | |
| dc.keywords | occupational health, occupational hazards, flour mills, industrial workers, factory workers, Uttarakhand | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 226 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand) | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Industrial Workers | en_US |
| dc.sub | Family Resource Management | en_US |
| dc.theme | Environmental Sciences | en_US |
| dc.these.type | Ph.D | en_US |
| dc.title | Study of occupational health hazards among flour mill workers of Uttarakhand | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |