Occupational Safety of Workers in Cement Industry

Abstract

The cement industry is an energy-intensive and significant contributor to climate change. The major environmental, health and safety issues associated with cement production are emissions to air and energy use. Cement manufacturing requires huge amount of non-renewable resources like raw material and fossil fuels. Safety of the Workers, while working with the machines in the plant or factory is essential, which protect the workers from accidents, hazards and such other harmful events. Hence, the corporate organizations and companies should maintain different safety measures so as to avoid industrial accidents. 

The main objectives of the studies are to study the socio-economic status of the cement industry workers. To know whether management of cement industries is serious about health and safety of their workers. To study the occupational safety for the workers in cement industries and to know about the safety equipments provided by management at their work places. The methodology of the study is the present research work is mainly based on primary data collected from workers in cement industries of Kalaburagi district. Hence, the primary data was collected from the workers working in cement industries located in Kalaburagi district. Vasavadatta Cement is one of the modern and efficient cement plants in India, producing best quality of cement to the complete satisfaction of its customers. It produces Gold 53, Super 43 Grade Cement and Birla Shakti Cement. The company possesses ISO-9002 and ISO-14001. This company is introducing latest management methods like Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) from Japan. Further, there are more than 10 cement industries in the Kalaburagi district, of which 3-4 are large scale industries. Hence, due to limited time frame, it was decided to select four large scale cement industries in Kalaburagi district and even the number of workers is also more and hence, totally 70 Cement industry workers selected in Vasavadatta cement industry in Sedam Taluka were surveyed. Due to such preventive measures, there are no records of death of any workers in the last five to ten years at cement industries. But there are minor security threats incidents which made a few of the workers disabled.