Saha, Asim and Nag, Anjali and Nag, Pranab Kumar (2006) Occupational injury proneness in Indian women: A Survey in fish processing industries. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology.
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A cross sectional survey was initiated to understand the frequency of occupational injury occurence and the associated factors in the fish processing industries of western India involving 185 randomly selected women subjects. All the subjects were interviewed with the help of an interviewer-administered questionnaire to collect information regarding their personal, occupational and work related morbidity details ( including details of occupational injuries). Logistic regression method was used to analyze the data in order to obtain the contribution of individual factors on occupational injuries. This study has shown that work related morbidity like blanching of hand ( OR; 2.30, 95 per cent CI; 1.12-4.74) and nature of job like grading ( OR; 3.99, 95 per cent CI; 1.41-11.27) and packing ( OR; 5.68, 95 per cent CI; 1.65-19.57) had a significant impact on injury causation. This study eventually concludes that apart from nature of job of fish processing workers, occupational hazards prevailing in the work environment contribute significantly to the occurence of work related injuries and prevention of such occupational hazards may help in protecting workers from occupational injurues also.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 300.OCC001 |
| Keywords: | India, Women, Occupational Safety, Occupational Hazards, Labour, Safety at Work, Marine Fisheries, Conditions of Work, Processing Units, Seafood Industry, Fish Processing, Fishing Industry, Databases |
| Subjects: | Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Dec 2021 08:05 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Dec 2021 08:05 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/8109 |
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