A Study on Employees ’Safety and Health Hazards ’Measures of Leather Goods Manufacturing Companies

The study of employees ’safety and health hazards measures of leather goods manufacturing companies in chennai. The development of welfare at work should contribute not only to strengthen the company's position on the market. Environmental aspects which affect the workers current behavior as well as the state of things among employees ‘needs: job security, welfare etc. The aim of this study was to evaluating and determining the exiting safety and health hazards of various small scale leather industries with the overall population of 50 employees. To gather the required data, a questionnaire was developed and analyzed by using simple percentage, correlation, chi-square and t-test was done to determine the effectiveness on safety and health between organization and employees ’. Based on the findings, conducting safety training programs, Guiding employee on health hazards, Review & respond to employees ’safety suggestions, Job safety analysis (JSA), Periodic safety and health inspections are having a positive and significant relationship with organization and employees ’, housekeeping area of the workplace, providing personal protective equipment and using of safety posters, health fairs, etc., for promoting health & safety are not having a significant relationship with employees ’. Conclusions as well as implications are discussed.