What do us by occupational hazards?
Industrial development,
no doubt, is very essential for the national development to provide jobs,
increase production and there raise the standard of the living of the people.
But there is an ugly side of the industrial development as well. In our efforts
to make out a living through a number of processions we have ignored many
important aspects of life and made several mistakes. These are: creating
unhealthy conditions of work. Increasing risk of diseases, risk of accidents in
the factories and other industrial establishments and spoiling the environment,
by creating pollution and even by ignoring the safety norms, which threats to
create serious problems of heath, both physical and mental. Thus such potential
risks which we create while pursuing our occupations are known as `occupational
hazards.’
High rate of
industrial accidents
Every three minutes a
worker dies of an occupational injury or illness in the world. Every second at
least four workers are hurt, according to a report of the international labor
organization (ILO).
India is one of the
countries in taking care of industrial accidents.
Being going in the
mines, the mine workers should ensure that proper safety measures been taken to
face any accidents, if it takes place in the mine.
Who is eligible for the
excise exemption?
Various excise duty
concessions can be availed by a small scale manufacture whose value of
clearance of excisable goods did not exceed rupees 1.5 crores in the preceding financial
year.