Necessity of protective equipment measure for tannery workers

Workers among tannery industries suffer from dangerous diseases, skin and respiratory diseases due to hazardous uses of chemicals. The wastewater of tanneriescontains; animal flesh, sulphuric acid, chromium and lead, and these are disposed into nearby river that pollute the environment and eventually affects humans. 

The highest prevalence of diseases among the tannery workers is extremely associated with different working areas of leather processing, due to lack of proper personal protective equipment measures.The ability of chromium binding with skin proteins may produce complex antigen leading to hypersensitivity. The primary health impacts from chromium are damage to the gastrointestinal, respiratory, and immunological systems, as well as reproductive and developmental problem. Read more>>>>>>>>>>>>>