Safety Measure Practices In Tirupur Garment Industry.

Abstract

“Tirupur, located in Western Tamil Nadu, South India, is one of the largest knitwear garment manufacturing and exporting clusters in South Asia. It has boomed almost without interruption since the early 1970s when manufacturers began to export to Europe and today it is a leading centre of garment exports for the world market. Tirupur is also known as “T-shirt city”, accounts for approximately 80% of India’s total production of knitwear for export. The work environment in the garment industries is unhealthy and unsafe for the workers resulting in several health problems. Various workers employed in large, medium and small scale garment industries in the present study the workers are participated in a face-to-face confidential interview. Hence this study aims to find the safety measure practices in Tirupur garment industry