OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES WITH REFERENCE TO TYRE INDUSTRY: THEORY PROSPECTIVE

Abstract

Health and safety in manufacturing industries are important to protect the working conditions and overall safety and health of employees in the workplace. Rubber and tyre manufacturing industries with large manufacturing processes due to these various processes and working with rubber leads to high risk, health and safety hazards like Physical, Chemical and Biological etc. The rubber and tyre industries major issues and challenges are proper handling, storage and transport of chemical substances with safe and without risks to health, controlling the risks from fire and hazard identification and corrective action to minimize the risk or avoid risk. Many effective measures of OHS regulations exist to avoid hazards and risks but still rubber and tyre industries are facing serious issues and challenges. The present paper emphasizes Occupational health and safety measures, issues and challenges in rubber and tyre manufacturing industries. Basic element Occupational health and safety, the manufacturing process and occupational health and safety aspects, safety measures in tyre manufacturing, role of employer in occupational health and safety, role of employees in OHS, common safety measures in tyre industries, SWOT analysis of OHSE, challenges faced by the tyre industries during Covid-19, major changes in human resource policies towards occupational health and safety.