TITLE:
The Effect of Working Place on Worker’s Health in a Tannery in Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Salauddin Biswas, Tawhidur Rahman
KEYWORDS:
Tannery; Hazaribagh; Workers’ Health; Environment; Pollution; Workplace; Heavy Work; Chemical Exposures; Personal Behaviors
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.3 No.1,
February
28,
2013
ABSTRACT:
This article investigates
the causes of workers’ health problems which are integrated with their daily
work in the tanning industry, and with their daily life style pattern. The
tanning industry has two opposing aspects; it brings economic prosperity for
the country, on the other hand, it causes health problems for the workers.
Moreover, it has detrimental effects on surrounding environment as well. The
workers labor in polluted workplace inside of the industry, and live in
unhygienic dwelling outside of the industry. While the workers practice daily
life culture in personal life, they practice tannery culture in their work
place, and both create health problems for them. Workers’ health has
relationship with surrounding areas, equipments, workplace floor, chemicals,
ways of dealing with the machines, and so on, and all variables determine the
workers’ health individually or as a whole. Notably, one matter is not
responsible for the suffering of the tannery workers. We need to consider it
from the holistic point of view.