Cement Industry Workers Health Status: A Sociological Study

Abstract

The Indian cement industry is the second largest producer of cement in the world just behind China, but ahead of the United States and Japan. The health and safety performance of the cement industry as a whole is lagging behind that of other, more proactive, sectors of manufacturing industry. Within the sector, there is a wide range of performances. The better companies have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve injury rates similar to the average for the manufacturing industry. However even the best have room for further improvement. The main objectives of the studies are to study the socio-educational and economic background of workers in cements industries. To understand the working conditions of workers in cement industries, to study the health status of workers conditions maintained by the cement industries at the work places. The data was used in 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. 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 Seadam Taluka were surveyed. The Factories Act has mentioned different conditions to ensure health of the labour in industries and these promote hygienic conditions at industries.