Impact of Dust Pollution on Worker’s Health in Textile Industry: A Case Study of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Journal Title: Research Journal Social Sciences (Online) - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The textile industry in Pakistan has largest share in the manufacturing industry sector. The textile sector is one of the most polluting industrial sectors. Cotton dust is present in the air during the handling and processing of cotton which threatens the health of labours working in this industry. This study estimated the impact of the dust pollution on workers’ health and cost of illness in the textile industry of the Faisalabad, Pakistan. This was the cross sectional research conducted among the 200 randomly selected textile workers. Both health and opportunity cost of textile workers estimated by using the structural equation model (SEM) with observed and latent variables. This paper used the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to interlink the latent factor diseases with their indicators symptoms. The results of the SEM model on age, respiratory diseases, overtime work, duration of employment, use of masks and dust level are significant. Study finds that 62 percent workers beard the cost of illness and 43 percent workers miss the work last two weeks. The 69 percent workers reported that due to the illness their work performance in industry is not normal, they suffered the problems during the work such as muscle aches, asthma, cough; respiratory allergy etc. It also calculated the prevalence of the respiratory diseases among the textile workers was high. Result revealed that 35.5 percent workers had wheezing, 65.5 percent phlegm, 58 percent chest tightness, 72 percent had a throat irritation problems. Paper concluded that there is a high prevalence of respiratory diseases among the textile workers due to the exposure of dust pollution and if successfully reduction in dust pollution occurs in textile industry; the worker will gained the benefits in term of the reduction in medical cost and gain in terms of wages.
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NAZIA MEHWISH, USMAN MUSTAFA
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