Журнал исследований эргономики

Health and Safety Conditions of Gypsum Industries Workers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

Zafar Ullah*, Shahid Maqsood and Fakhre Alam

Mining may be a dangerous profession in which labors are wide-open to unfavorable environments. In Pakistan gypsum excavating is primarily passed out within the territory of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan which contributes to the major chunk of the whole country. This investigation study was carried out in 20 diverse gypsum excavations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa five districts to define the occupational health and safety conditions of the gypsum mineworkers. Two hundred workers involved in mining works about occupational disease status were matched with that of 93 office groups of similar mines works. The occupational health disease grade of the workers was assessed employing a standardized medical survey and aspiratory work testing. The independent t-test was utilized to choose whether there was any basic difference amongst the mines laborers and the controls and the chi-square test to compare the prevalence of distinctive respiratory impedances in professionals with that in controls; additionally assessed the contrasts amongst smokers and nonsmokers. The study uncovers that the literacy rate is low (21%) among the miners. Aspiratory intense and unremitting inability was higher among smokers as compared to nonsmokers in both miners and office staff. Hypertension (19%) diabetes (6%) and musculoskeletal disorders (3%) were the common diseases in mines laborers. From the study, it appears that there's high illness among mineworkers hence showing a requirement for standard occupational health disease checkups occupational health disease instruction utilization of individual personal protective equipment, and proper control measures for control or minimization of the workplace hazards.