Staff Reporter

Most of the country’s factory owners are indifferent to the safety of their workers and though the laws are in place in this regard, their enforcement is not monitored, said a report of the Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation, an NGO.
The report pointed out that the factory workers themselves take precautionary measures before going to workplace. The workers, both male and female, wrap their legs and feet with old rags and bags to protect themselves from the heat of the steel foundries, or from the burns that could be caused by the explosion of a boiler, one of the leading reasons for accidents, according to the report. [Read more]