SYNOPSIS OF

FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT ON

IMPLIMENTATION OF HEALTH AND
SAFETY MEASURE UNDER FACTORY
ACT 1950 AT HIMALAYA DRUGS
(DEHRADUN)
SUBMITTED TO:
SUBMTTED BY:
DR. ANAMIKA CHETRI
NAGALIA

AMAN

B.B.A.
VI SEM
HR
INTRODUCTION:
Organized efforts and procedures for identifying workplace hazards and reducing
accidents and exposure to harmful situations and substances. It also includes training of
personnel in accident prevention, accident response, emergency preparedness, and use of
protective clothing and equipment.
Due to rapid industrialization, industrial workers are exposed to several types of hazards
and accidents. Every year lakhs of workers are injured due to mechanical, chemical, electrical
and radiation hazards and it leads to partial or total disablement. So in recent years, greater
attention is given to health and safety due to pressure from government, trade unions, labour
laws and awareness of employers.
The efficiency of workers depends to a great extends on the environment in which the
work. Work environment consists of all the factors, which act and react on the body and mind of
an employee. The primary aim is to create an environment, which ensures the greatest ease of
work and removes all causes of worries.
Occupational health and safety is a discipline with a broad scope involving many specialized
fields. In its broadest sense, it should aim at:
a) The promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social
well-being of workers in all occupations.
b) The prevention among workers of adverse effects on health caused by their working
conditions.
c) The protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse
to health.

d) The placing and maintenance of workers in an occupational environment adapted to

physical and mental needs.
e) The adaptation of work to humans.

NEED FOR THE STUDY:

Health and Safety measures are inevitable to any organization where workers are
involved. Its an organizations responsibility to provide to its workers beyond the payment of
wages for their services. The workers health and safety on and off the job within the
organization is a vital concern of the employer. The working environment in a factory adversely
affects the workers health and safety because of the excessive heat or cold, noise, odors, fumes,
dust and lack of sanitation and pure air etc., which leads to accident or injury or disablement or
loss of life to the workers. Providing a health and safer environment is a pre-requisite for any
productive effort. These must be held in check by providing regular health check-up, protective
devices and compensatory benefits to the workers.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

To Study the health and safety measure adopted in HIMALAYA DRUGS.

To study the awareness of the workers about health and safety in the work place
To find out the Occurrence of Accident Happened at the work place.
To find out the Satisfaction Laval of Employee towards health and safety measures

provided by HIMALAYA.
To Give Suggestions to improve the Health and safety In the Organization.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

Research methodology describes how the research study was undertaken. This includes
the specifications of source of data, research design, and method of data collection, the sampling
method and the tools used.
SAMPLE DESIGN:
Geographical area:
The study will be conducted in DEHRADUN..
Sample units:
The sampling units used by the low and middle level employees in production
department in Himalaya employees.
SAMPLE SIZE
The number of samples to be collected by the researcher is 135.
Sampling procedure / Sampling method:
The sampling method that will be used for this study is Convenience sampling method,
which is selected according to the easy and convenience of the researcher.

SOURCE OF DATA:

Primary data:
The researcher will collect both by direct survey from the employees through
questionnaire. The researcher will use structured questionnaire.
Secondary data:
Here the researcher will collect secondary data from the company profile, industry
profile and official web sites.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT:
Research instrument that will be used for data collecting is questionnaire and interview
schedule.
Questionnaire
The questionnaire will be prepared in a well-structured and non disguised form so that it
is easily understandable and answerable by everyone. The type of questions include in the
questionnaire will be open-ended questions, multiple choice questions and dichotomous
questions.
Interview Schedule
The interview method of collecting data involves presentation of oral-verbal stimuli and
reply in terms of oral-verbal responses. Then the responses are filled up in the questionnaire, for
further analysis.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
House of Lords Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee (2009) This report
evaluated the impact of the 2005 Work at Height regulation in the UK as part of an
evaluation of a body of secondary legislation conducted by the House of Lords. The
report concluded that the legislation appeared to have achieved its key objective of
a reduction in the number of falls from height although this conclusion is based only
on a change in the outcome measure without consideration of any other changes
that may have occurred in the industry. A key finding of the evaluation was that
there were a number of unintended consequences associated with introduction of
the legislation. Sales of ladders fell significantly due to a rumour that they were
banned under the legislation which was not correct. There were also a number of
cases of alternative products being introduced to replace ladders that actually
increased the risks and resulted in some accidents.
Vickers, et al. (2005) This study investigated small firms awareness of and
responses to health and safety legislation. The key findings were that awareness
varied by industry sector, by the ethnic background of the owner/manager of the
business and size of the business. Retail businesses were less likely to be able to
identify relevant health and safety legislation and micro businesses were less likely
to be aware of legislation. The study found no overall differences between whiteowned and ethnic minorityowned/managed businesses however there were
significant differences between ethnic minority groups. Pakistani and Bangladeshi
businesses were the least likely to be aware of legislation. The authors do not
identify a clear explanation for this finding but suggest it might be linked with other
cultural variables including acceptance of authority. Vickers et al (205) note that

some small businesses may actually work in relatively safe manner while being
unaware of work health and safety regulations. Inspectors described these
businesses as lacking in formal systems and paperwork but showing good health
and safety practice. This was seen as being due to a commitment to good
housekeeping and organisation of the business as well as a concern for the
workforce. Where these businesses had significant problems this tended to be due
to less obvious issues such as exposure to hazardous substances.
Nielsen (2007) Nielsen (2007) investigated the effect of the communicative
interaction between inspectors and businesses in a sample of Danish businesses.
The study looked at how the amount of communication between the inspector and
the business influenced the treatment that businesses received from the inspector.
The aim of the study was to explore factors leading to differential treatment of
businesses by inspectors. The study involved a detailed analysis of the records of
communication between inspectors and businesses. Nielsens analyses showed that
higher levels of communicative interaction between the inspector and the company
resulted in the company receiving more lenient treatment from the inspector.
Higher levels of communication also resulted in businesses being more likely to
make changes as a result of the inspection.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.google.com.
www.yahoo.com.

www.humanresources.about.com.
www.himalayawellness.com.