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Health hazard of women employed in small scale seafood processing units

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Title Health hazard of women employed in small scale seafood processing units
 
Creator Amaravathi, Thirumoorthy
Parimalam, Paramasivam
Premalatha, Mundanganthu Ragavan
Hemalatha, Ganapathysamy
Ganguli, Anind Kumar
 
Subject Seafood processing units
Women workers
Occupational related health hazards
Safety measures
 
Description 574-582
A survey was initiated to understand the occupational related health hazards in the seafood processing units of southern India. One hundred and forty women workers from Tuticorin district were selected randomly. Skin temperature was measured using Infrared Thermography. Temperature of the phalanges (fingers) of hand areas during work were as low as 26.57±3.06 º C , i.e. 8ºC less than the pre exposure values and the temperature of the phalanges (toes) of feet areas (without gumboots) during work were as low as 25.70±
3.14º C , i.e. 9ºC less than the pre exposure values. Drop in temperature during work were statistically significant (P
 
Date 2016-07-25T08:19:26Z
2016-07-25T08:19:26Z
2016-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/35094
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.45(04) [April 2016]