A study on workers’ attitude towards the safety, health and welfare measures in pyrotechnics industry at Sivakasi

Abstract

Fireworks industry is a developing rapidly and successfully one in Virudhunagar District especially in Sivakasi. In this industry, the employees are not given acceptable in quality welfare measures for their health and safe working. In fireworks the employees have lot of difficulty on their welfare measures, safety equipments and well-being. In fireworks industry, safety is most important for the employees. Generally the quality of work life of workers is based on Hours of work and arrangements of working time; Work organization and job content; Impact of new technologies on working conditions; Working conditions of women, young workers, old workers and other special categories; Work-related welfare services and facilities. So the study is referring to the main intention of to discover the welfare measures in the fireworks industry. According to the factories act the welfare measures and safety equipment should be very important because the safety of the employees is extremely important. In fireworks industry lot of fire disaster is happening this is a time to identify the safety equipments and well-being of the employees. This study mainly focused on the Employees welfare measures and well-being.