ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK AND THE SATISFACTION OF EMPLOYEES IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Safety and health at work involves the exercise of such working conditions that take certain measures and activities in order to protect the life and health of employees. The interest of society, of all stakeholders and every individual is to achieve the highest level of safety and health at work,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Trakia University
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Applied Researches in Technics, Technologies and Education |
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| Online Access: | https://sites.google.com/a/trakia-uni.bg/artte/articles/artte-vol-4-no-3/Snezana%20Urosevic.%20ACHIEVEMENT%20OF%20THE%20HIGHEST%20LEVEL%20OF%20SAFETY%20AND%20HEALTH%20AT%20WORK%20AND%20THE%20SATISFACTION%20OF%20EMPLOYEES%20IN%20THE%20TEXTILE%20INDUSTRY.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1 |
| Summary: | Safety and health at work involves the exercise of such working conditions that take certain
measures and activities in order to protect the life and health of employees. The interest of society, of
all stakeholders and every individual is to achieve the highest level of safety and health at work, to
unwanted consequences such as injuries, occupational diseases and diseases related to work are
reduced to a minimum, and to create the conditions work in which employees have a sense of
satisfaction in the performance of their professional duties. Textile industry is a sector with higher risk,
because the plants of textile industry prevailing unfavorable microclimate conditions: high air
temperature and high humidity, and often insufficient illumination of rooms and increased noise. The
whole line of production in the textile industry, there is a risk of injury, the most common with
mechanical force, or gaining burns from heat or chemicals. All of these factors are present in the
process of production and processing of textiles and the same may affect the incidence of
occupational diseases of workers, absenteeism, reduction of their working capacity and productivity.
With the progress of the textile industry production increases in the number of hazardous and harmful
substances that may pose a potential danger to the employee in this branch of the economy as well as
the harmful impact on the environment. Therefore, it is important to give special attention to these
problems. |
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| ISSN: | 1314-8796 1314-8796 |