Dedicated efforts with a humanitarian approach are required for industrial health and safety in State, said labour Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu.
He was addressing a day-long state-level workshop on 'Silicosis and Industrial Safety' held here on Wednesday at New Circuit House under the joint aegis of labour Department and Directorate of Industrial Health and Safety.
Referring to the ‘Mukhyamantri Helmet Suraksha Yojana’, the Minister said that these small yet important safety measures should be taken seriously in order to ensure security of industrial labourers.
‘Such factories and mines, where silicosis poses threat to the labourers deployed, should be marked and identified and the labourers there should be made aware of the safety measures required for prevention of silicosis’, he said.
Sahu assured the participants of the workshop that soon a special X-ray machine for diagnosis of silicosis will be facilitated. ‘The provision for the same has already been made in the budget.’
Additional Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, in his address said that efforts are being made to establish a 'hygiene lab for labourers', where they will be provided complete health check-up facilities.He said that labour Department is deliberating to purchase a bus worth Rs 25 lakh which will be equipped with X-ray machine and other required medical equipments for eye, ear and complete health check-up of labourers.
The bus will facilitate regular visits to the factories for conducting health check-up of the labourers, Dhand added.