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- Occupational Health Problems among Female Sewing Machine Operators
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1 Department of Family Resource Management, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
1 Department of Family Resource Management, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 8, No 2 (2017), Pagination: 122-126Abstract
A vast majority of women working in textile and apparel industries serve as sewing machine operators. Sitting in a fixed position constantly because of the sight requirements at the machine, leads to a static burden that threatens the health of the worker. Although the sewing process could provide a qualitative improvement and a flexible work style to the worker when it is treated as a whole, but female sewing machine operators as an individual in the workplace, are limited by the simple and repetitive tasks because of highly advanced labour divisions and no defined workplace setup. The present study was formulated with the objective of exploring the work profile of female sewing machine operators. The objective of the study also includes the investigation of health problems of female sewing machine operators. The present study was conducted in Hisar city of Haryana states, where 80 female sewing machine operators were selected, who were performing sewing activity from last 4 years. A pre tested and well planned questionnaire was used to along with interview schedule to collect the responses of the respondents.Keywords
Workplace, Sitting Position, Work Profile, Health Problems.- Assessment of Workplace Environment for Sewing Machine Activity
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1 Department of Family Resource Management, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
1 Department of Family Resource Management, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 8, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 55-58Abstract
A comfortable and well managed work environment without much clutter allows employees to focus on their goals. This paper describes the results of a study conducted to assess the workplace environment of the female sewing machine operators. A comfortable work environment is very important to perform the task easily and to increase the productivity with reduced number of errors. Hence, the workplace environment of the sewing activity was assessed with environmental parameters which include temperature, light, humidity, and noise. The mean temperature of the workplace was 28.59 which was above the recommended level and the mean illumination level at workplace was found 228.56 which was below the recommended level which was contributing to headache and eye strain for the female sewing machine operators. Workplace assessment for ventilation facility, storage of garments, storage of tools, proximity of clothes and tools, clearance of traffic lanes, hazardous things at workplace, workplace hygiene and workplace management also performed. The results of the study showed that only one fourth sewing machine operators had good storage facility for storage of stitched and unstitched garments.Keywords
Workplace, Sewing Machine Operators, Environmental Parameters, Illumination Level.References
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- Perception of Sewing Operators Regarding Work Worker and Workplace
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1 Department of Family Resource Management, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
1 Department of Family Resource Management, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN