Statutory Provisions of Employees Health and Safety Measures of Food Industry with Special Reference to Bakery Foods, Madurai, Tamilnadu

Abstract

The health of corporate India has taken a dump over the last era owed to their inactive lifestyle, growing work pressures, and lack of harmony between personal and professional lives, among other reasons. As revealed in a 2016 study, one out of every two employees in the country suffers from stress while 43 percent of them have skewed BMI. It was found that a large proportion of people in the corporate sector face the risk of diabetes, hypertension, and other lifestyle-related disorders. In this study the researcher collected 135 samples with non -probability sampling about the statutory provisions of employees health and safety measures adopted in foods industry with special reference to bakery industry in Madurai and to find out the satisfaction level of the respondents towards health and safety measures. By Chi - Square Analysis the researcher found that there is a relationship between the awareness of workers and the Health and safety training and there is no relationship existing between the effective disciplinary procedures and safe working environment. By Correlation, since the correlation value is 0.813, there is a high degree of positive relationship that exists between the maintenance of machines and the accidents happened. By Spearman’s Rank Correlation, since the correlation value is 0.875, the relationship that exists between the health check-up provided and stress towards work is good. By Anova, there is a significant difference existing between the health and safety measures provided to the workers.