Occupational Health and Safety Complications with Tea Workers in Assam

Abstract

The possible dangers to the safety and health of tea plantation employees in their workplace are referred to as Occupational Hazards. By evaluating work that requires human capacities or standards defined in the research literature, the stressfulness of a professional worker's manual actions is assessed. A work is considered harsh if its demands surpass capabilities or established norms, posing a risk of workplace health hazards. In a rising nation like India, when a vocational worker is accessible at a lower cost with restricted employment possibilities, deviations from the skills or norms are typical. Furthermore, a worker's goal is to maximize his profits by putting himself under severe working circumstances for economic reasons. Long working hours, insufficient rest intervals, and other factors harm employees' health. Physical, mechanical, chemical, biological and socio-psychosocial reasons expose tea plantation workers to a variety of hazards in the workplace. The current study aims to examine the numerous occupational health dangers experienced by tea plantation workers in Assam, as well as the safety precautions adopted by them. Tea plantation labourers had to make a living in unsanitary and cruel situations, and such a lifestyle pattern would regularly expose them to serious infections.  Various criteria such as income, worker education levels, medical facility availability, personal cleanliness and sanitation, and general analysis of dissimilar occupational health concerns have all been engaged into account when the study's conclusions were reached. The study was mostly done with the use of primary data acquired via a questionnaire. A total of 228 Tea plantation employees, both male and female, were questioned using Random Sampling Techniques.