Occupational safety and working conditions provided by the Municipality of the capital for waste removal workers: study in one of the municipal departments

Abstract

The study which was carried out in the cleanliness department of the Karrada municipality department, related to the workers of waste removal, showed that there is a lack of awareness on the part of waste workers towards the occupational health and safety equipment that serves them for the purpose of maintaining health and protecting them from work hazards, such as gloves, occupational safety shoes, head cover and rain suits. In the winter and other equipment and showed the lack of several first aid in the wheels of lifting waste and the lack of periodic checks for workers from infectious diseases and heavy elements and that most workers work daily wages and few of them on a temporary contract, as well as between the study Not to participate in training courses in the field of waste lifting and occupational health and safety The study showed the interest of officials to maintain the health and safety of workers and achieve their satisfaction and the adoption of complaints submitted by them and there are amounts calculated on the basis of the wages of lifting waste and cleaning sewage and written in the lists of wages of pure water, but spend on other things.