LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:8 August 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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Occupational Health Hazards of Women Construction Workers:
A Critical Survey of the Literature

T. Thenguzhali, Ph.D. Research Scholar and Dr. P. Veerachamy

Abstract

This paper surveys and critically reviews of the major research works on occupational health hazards of women construction workers in non-farm sector. These papers analyze how various hazards affect the women workers in construction industry. The studies cover major hazards like mechanical, chemical, mental, biological and physical ones, in the field of community medicine, environmental studies, psychological, sociological and general medicine point of view. Only a few studies have been done to incorporate the ideologies of occupational health hazards within an economic point of view. This research gap opens a new avenue of research for the study on an economic analysis of occupational health hazards in the construction industry.

Keywords: women construction workers, construction industry, occupational health hazards

Introduction

Modernization and industrialization have paved a good path to the construction industry. There are more than 20 million construction workers in India at present. The construction sector is one of the largest employers of women next to agriculture in India. Construction work is often described as a dirty, difficult and dangerous job. It is one of the most hazardous and accident- prone activities as reported by International Labour Organization (ILO). Construction sectors involves work that are highly unsafe like working in extreme heights, welding, cutting, centering, carrying stuff to high places without the use of any kind of technology. Globally, 17% of all work-related fatalities are in the construction sector (ILO). So far as women construction workers are concerned their conditions are even worse. Women construction workers may carry single loads of up to 51 kg, far more than the weight limit recommended by occupation safety and health standards for women. They also tend to carry heavier loads when they have to climb up a job site and a repetition of this kind of work takes a toll on the women, and their bodies.

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T. Thenguzhali, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar-608002
Tamilnadu
India
thenguzhali21@gmail.com

Dr. P. Veerachamy (Corresponding author)
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar-608002
Tamilnadu
India
veerasamy_p@yahoo.co.in

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