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A STUDY OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES: ASTUDY OF SELECTED EMPLOYEES IN OCL INDIA LTD

Due to rapid industrialization, industrial workers are exposed to several typesof hazards and accidents. Every year lakhs of workers are injured due tomechanical, chemical, electrical and radiation hazards and it leads to partialor total disablement. So in recent years, greater attention is given to healthand safety due to pressure from government, trade unions, labor laws andawareness of employers. he e!ciency of workers depends to a great extends on the environment inwhich the work. "ork environment consists of all the factors, which act andreact on the body and mind of an employee. he primary aim is to create anenvironment, which ensures the greatest ease of work and removes allcauses of worries.Objectives of the stu!:

  o study the awareness of the workers about health and safety in the workplace.

  o #nd the occurrence of accidents happened at work place.  o identify the role of management in implementing health $ safety.  o #nd out satisfaction level of the respondents towards health $ safety

measure.  o give suggestions to improve the health $ safety in the organization.  o ascertain the health and safety measures adopted in %&' (ndia 'imited.

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 his study was to carry out a broad survey and analysis of relevant researcharticles about piece rate wages and their e*ects on health and safety. + totalof - research articles were examined extensively and / of these werefound relevant and had su!cient 0uality to serve the purpose of this study. he #ndings of these relevant articles are summarized and analyzed in thesurvey. 1ore recent research shows a clear interest for health,musculoskeletal injuries, physical workload, pains and occupational injuries. he fact that 2 of the / studied articles found negative e*ects of piecerates on di*erent aspects of health and safety does not prove causality, buttogether they give very strong support that in most situations piece rates

have negative e*ects on health and safety.

"e reviewed the occupational health and safety intervention literature tosynthesize evidence on #nancial merits of such interventions. + literaturesearch included journal databases, existing systematic reviews, and studiesidenti#ed by content experts. "e found strong evidence that ergonomic andother musculoskeletal injury prevention intervention in manufacturing andwarehousing are worth undertaking in terms of their #nancial merits. he

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economic evaluation of interventions in this literature warrants furtherexpansion. he review also provided insights into how the methodological0uality of economic evaluations in this literature could be improved.

3icycling has the potential to improve #tness. 4nderstanding ways of making

bicycling safer is important to improving population health. "e reviewedstudies of the impact of transportation infrastructure on bicyclist safety. oassess safety, studies examining the following outcomes were included5injuries6 injury severity6 and crashes. 7esults to date suggest that sidewalksand multi8use trails pose the highest risk, major roads are more hazardousthan minor roads, and the presence of bicycle facilities 9e.g. on8road bikeroutes, on8road marked bike lanes, and o*8road bike paths: was associatedwith the lowest risk. Street lighting, paved surfaces, and low8angled gradesare additional factors that appear to improve cyclist safety.

 he objective of this study was to identify family and job characteristics

associated with long work hours. he sample was composed of all salariedworkers aged /;- men and 2- women: interviewed in the2?/ @ational Aamily Bealth Survey, (ndia. Aactors associated with longworking hours di*ered by gender. (n men, working -/

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7(1+7 D++5 he primary data has been obtained from the selected employees $ seniorexecutive of %&' (ndia vt. 'td. through circulation of the structured non8

disguised 0uestionnaire.SE&%@D+7 D++5 he secondary data has been obtained from published as well asunpublished literature on the topic and from 3ooks, Fournals, @ews apers,7esearch +rticles, hesis, "ebsites, and 1agazines etc.S+1'E S(GE5+ppropriate number of sample size 9i.e. ;?: was put to used for the purposeof collecting primary data from the selected employees of the %&' (ndia 'td.S+1'(@H 1EB%D5@on8probability sampling design based on convenient sampling method hasbeen used for this research study.

S+1'(@H A7+1E5 he representative sampling units in appropriate $ justi#ed size has beenconveniently drawn from amongst di*erent employees across variousheterogeneous socio8 economic age groups, occupations, gender who haveavailed health $ safety measures as o*ered the %&' (ndia 'td.

7ESE+7&B (@S741E@5+ structured non8disguised 0uestionnaire has been prepared to get therelevant information from the respondents. he 0uestionnaire consists ofvariety of 0uestions presented to the respondents for their responses. heresearcher has been used 0uestionnaire with the support $ cooperation of

the selected respondents of various departments at managerial and non8managerial level of %&' (ndia 'td.