Abstract

Manu P. R., Chethan Kumar T. and Vikneshwari A.*

ABSTRACT

Occupational health hazards or occupational disease as a source or situation with potential for harm in terms of injury or ill health, damage to property, damage to the workplace environment, or a combination of these. The workers are working in sugar industries are prone to face a number of stress. Repeated attacks can cause fine scarring of the lungs and impaired breathing. This study is conducted with the aim to assess the knowledge about health illness and medication use among sugar factory workers in Bharathinagar. This is a cross sectional study, conducted in a sugar factory at Bharathinagar, Mandya district, over a period of 6 months. The workers were selected by convenient sampling technique. Out of 140 workers, majority of the workers are in the age group of 51-60 years (48.57%), All are male workers. Majority (68.57%) of the workers having monthly income between 20000- 25000, majority (44.29%) of the workers are having the working experience between 21-30 years, majority (42.86%) of the workers have the habits of both alcohol and smoking. From the study we revealed that (57.14%) of the workers are suffering from the musculoskeletal problem and majority (89.28%) of the workers are having the knowledge of risk of exposure to noise, (61.42%) of the workers are having the knowledge of risk of exposure to heat, (85.71%) of the workers are having the knowledge of risk of exposure to dust. Most of the workers had poor knowledge about self-reported practice regarding personal protective equipment. The finding of this study shows that most of the workers had knowledge about occupational health hazards, and unsatisfactory self-reported practice.