Occupational safety and health risk of the workers of selected garments factory in Bangladesh.

Abstract

Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) broadly works in protecting the health, safety and welfare of people engaged in work. For this reason, OSH rules and regulation is needed to be followed in garments industry. Ready-made garments industry has made significant contributions to the country’s economic development. But the workers of these industry are not doing well. So, this study aimed to identify the risk of the workers of selected garments factory in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study design was used in this study. Face to face survey was done with 250 garments worker of sewing section who were selected by convenience sampling technique. Risk rating matrix tool were used for data collection. Descriptive analysis and multiple response analysis were used to analyze the survey result. Result indicated that 62% participants were female and 38% male where their mean age was 27 years. Most of the participants were married and completed primary education. The participants were in medium risk in ergonomics (46.4%), physical (64.8%) and psychological category (48%). Most of the participant’s severity rate was moderate in physical (30.8%); minor in ergonomics (26%) and psychological (31.6%); negligible in chemical (84%) and biological (86.4%). Most of the participants reported different health related problems where they mainly had back pain, headache, neck pain and other problems. In terms of safety measure they didn’t have any noise suppression system, no worker’s rotation and rest breaks. The participants also used Personal Protective Equipment sometimes. More effective control measures should be taken to control the risk and minimize the health problem. Abstract