A Descriptive Study on Prevalence of Occupational Health Hazards among Employees of Selected Sugarcane Factory in Deharadun, Uttarakhand

Occupational health hazards have deleterious effect on the individual health and safety as well as the organizational effectiveness. Emerging occupational health problems are to be tackled along with existing public health problems like communicable disease, malnutrition and inadequate medical care. Globalization and rapid industrial growth in the past few years have added further to complexities of occupational health related issues. Quantitative approach was used and research design was descriptive survey research design. Sample were factory employees of sugarcane factory, sample size was 100 and sample technique was convenient sampling, setting for the study was sugarcane factory of Doiwala, Dehradun, and tool used were checklist related to occupational health hazards. Majority (36%) of the subjects were between 47 to 56 years, majority (39%) subjects had educational status up to primary, majority (57%) of the subjects having monthly income more than 15000, majority (55%) of the subjects were from nuclear family, majority (55%) of the subjects were non vegetarian, majority (77%) of subjects were living in rural areas, majority (33%) of subjects were consuming tobacco, majority (81%) of subjects were having working experience more than 10 years, majority (95%) of the subjects were having working hours more than 8. Through this checklist we found that (42%) of subjects were having back ache, joint or muscles problems, (52%) of subjects were suffering from vision problems and (81%) of a subject says that PPE is not available for all workers.