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Health problems of the leather industry workers

A healthy, productive and well-motivated workforce is the key agent for overall socioeconomic development. To assess the health of leather industry workers, selection of nine leather industries from Kanpur was done purposively by taking a sample of three units each from leather processing, leather production and combined leather units having both leather processing and production. Similarly, 90 workers were selected randomly, taking 30 each from selected three leather units to assess their health hazards. Structured interview schedule was used for data collection. Survey was carried out to collect the desired information. Frequency, percentage were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that majority of the leather units were located in Jajmau area of Kanpur. Regarding profile of workers highlights that majority (55.55%) of respondent were in the age group of 41-45 years, educated upto primary level (35.55%). Majority of the respondents (66.67%) had smoking habit. Researcher found that 73.33 percent respondents of leather processing units, 76.66 percent respondents of leather production units and 80 percent respondents of combine leather units had no past record of any health issues/illness. Majority of the respondents (76.67%) family members did not suffer from any disease which is hereditary by nature. | Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci 2019 8 7 2089-2107 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 07 2019 Journal homepage http www.ijcmas.com Original Research Article https doi.org 10.20546 ijcmas.2019.807.252 Health Problems of the Leather Industry Workers Iti Dubey and Meenu Shrivastava Department of Textiles Apparel Designing College of Community and Applied Sciences MPUAT Udaipur India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Occupational Health hazards Industry workers Leather processing unit Leather production unit Combined leather units Article Info Accepted 17 June 2019 Available Online 10 July 2019 A healthy productive and well-motivated workforce is the key agent for overall socioeconomic development. To assess the health of leather industry workers selection of nine leather industries from Kanpur was done purposively by taking a sample of three units each from leather processing leather production and combined leather units having both leather processing and production. Similarly 90 workers were selected randomly taking 30 each from selected three leather units to assess their health hazards. Structured interview schedule was used for data collection. Survey was carried out to collect the desired information. Frequency percentage were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that majority of the leather units were located in Jajmau area of Kanpur. Regarding profile of workers highlights that majority 55.55 of respondent were in the age group of 41-45 years educated upto primary level 35.55 . Majority of the respondents 66.67 had smoking habit. Researcher found that 73.33 percent respondents of leather processing units 76.66 percent respondents of leather production units and 80 percent respondents of combine leather units had no past record of any health issues illness. Majority of the respondents 76.67 family members did not suffer from any disease which is hereditary by nature. .