Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Use of personal protection equipment's for the workers

  • Author:
  • Iti Dubey1,*, Sudha Babel1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Published Online: Jan 4, 2020
  • Page Number: 142 to 144

1Department of Textile and Apparel Designing, College of Community and Applied Sciences, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur-313001, Rajasthan

*Corresponding author email id: itidubey15@gmail.com

Online published on 18 September, 2020.

Abstract

Personal Protective Equipment plays an important role to take care of the health problems faced by the workers. Different surveys reported that the workers are affected more exposure of chemical and other harmful elements which they continuously in contact during work. In this paper researcher analyses the problems faced by workers and exposure area of the chemicals and how to protect themselves to the exposure of harmful chemicals which are hazardous to their health. There are various kinds of physical, chemical, and biological hazards in the workplace face by the workers. To protect workers from these hazards, it is not controversial that environmental management measures to remove or reduce these harmful factors and to improve the quality of workplace. Any type of accidents brings several consequences such as loss of time, costs for medical treatment, injuries, disabilities and potential fatalities to the workers. Personal protective equipment can be used to reduce illness and injuries. This study aimed to assess the use of personal protection equipment and how it protect the workers from getting injured.

Keywords

Health problems, Industrial workers, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Protective equipment, Safety