Assessment of Workplace and Health Hazards in Steel Industry a Review Article

Steel as the world’s most recycled material have its great influence in everyday life. Globally, over 6 million people are working in steel industry. Steel industry provide raw materials to many industries such as energy, construction, automotive, transportation, infrastructure, packaging and machinery. Besides, its major role in industrialization, steel production operations and handling possess a number of hazards for workers in steel industry. Because of lack of safety measures and continuous working in same environment there are several kind of workplace hazards that are found in workplace environment such as physical hazards of slips, trips, falls, overhead cranes, high temperature in working environment and manual handling of heavy objects. The respective health impacts caused by workplace hazards include respiratory issues, heat stress impacts, noise related problems, lungs infections, and number of injuries to fingers, hands and to other body parts. By implementing occupational health and safety regulations and by actively using personnel protective equipment’s any kind of accident can be handled efficiently.

Author(s): Aatika Murtaza

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