An Ergonomics Study on Work-related Disorders and Rehabilitational Intervention of Women Unorganized Sector Workers in West Bengal India

Beedi rolling activity is one of the major unorganized sector in India, which employees a large number of female. The beedi industry is the fourth largest employers of workers in India, after agriculture, hand loom and construction. The beedi rolling activity industry majority of them are home based female workers. Beedi rolling has become an instrumental in generating supplementary income among the poor families in the west Bengal. In India beedi rolling activity is an age old industry and one of the largest job providers for female in the unorganized sector. The job is mainly done by weaker economic class in the country who don’t have adequate education and skill to took for alternate job.Lack of adequate physical infrastructures, poor working conditions with nonexistent safety procedures have posed risk to physical, mental and overall well-being of workers. The study identifies work related musculoskeletal disorders and discomforts dominate beedi industries of west Bengal. The study has been conducted in Nadia and Murshidabad District of west Bengal with a selection of the subjects were divided into two groups (n-25) namely control and experimental.