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    Evaluation of use of safety measures on occupational health of workers of textile mills of Pakistan
    (Library Information Services COMSATS University Islamabad Lahore Campus, 2016-02-02) Hafiz Muhammad Abaidullah Yousaf; FA13-MSPM-022; Dr. Muhammad Khan; LHR TP 4371
    Textile is the major value added sector of Pakistan. The significance of this sector can be judged from Pakistan's GDP (8.5%). This important sector is also one of the polluted sectors of Pakistan. It lacks basic hygiene requirements and work conditions are not favorable for work in most of the organizations. In spinning mills, workers inhale cotton dust in their daily life and suffer from different kind of occupational illness like shortness of breath, asthma, chronic cough, bronchitis and wheezing etc. Occupational illnesses ultimately affect worker’s health, productivity, quality of life and hence overall welfare very seriously. Occupational health and safety (OHS) has been viewed primarily as a technical phenomenon in textile mills which can be improved by better monitoring of worksites. Research has suggested that after a certain point technology cannot achieve further improvements in occupational health and safety. Rather, organizational and cultural factors maybe important - yet these have not been widely explored. Therefore, research should examine how managerial style and culture, use of safety gadgets and organizational philosophy on health and safety and characteristics of the workforce and other variables are related to occupational health and safety. Therefore, the current work was aimed ‘to examine the effects of organizational factors on development of respiratory diseases among textile industry workers’. For this purpose, a sample of 100 workers was collected from 4 textile mills in Lahore region. A detailed questionnaire involving worker age, education, work experience, use of safety masks, safety training in the organization, incentive/punishment program, emergency planning, safety inspection system and respiratory diseases at workplace was used for this purpose. In this study, we have checked the relation of use of facemask, safety training, incentive/punishment program, emergency planning and safety inspection in the organization with occupational illness. This study analyzed descriptive statistics, Chi-Square test and Logistic Regression for the variables. This study finds the positive relation of control variable of work experience with occupational illness. This study draws the conclusion that organizational factors helps to improve occupational health and safety in textile mills. So, there should be a proper administrative actions for the use of safety masks at workplace, safety training for the workers to educate them for occupational health and safety risks, incentive/punishment program as a motivation for workers to take part in health and safety activities, emergency planning at workplace for controlling the adverse effects of occupational illness and safety inspection system in the textile mills to improve occupational health and safety.