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Manual scavengers

A study on occupational hazards faced by manual scavengers: with special reference to social work intervention model. its about the scavengers and their occupational related problems and their health issues. here the researcher practiced a social work intervention model to rehabilitate the scavengers.

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Manual scavengers

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  1. SOCIAL WORKER A Study on Occupational Hazards faced by Manual Scavengers: With Special Reference to the Application of Social Work Intervention SATHISHKUMAR K

  2. Manual scavenging is the worst surviving symbol of untouchability. - National Advisory Council resolution, October 23, 2010

  3. INTRODUCTION

  4. Research Methodology

  5. Conceptual Framework

  6. Occupational Hazards • Conceptual Definition A substantial risk to a worker’s physical, social or mental well-being which is present in a certain task, job, or profession. English wiktionary • Operational Definition According to the researcher perspective occupational hazards means a substantial risk to workers physical, social or mental well- being which present in a manual scavenging work.

  7. Manual Scavengers • Conceptual Definition “Manual scavenger” means a person engaged or employed, at the commencement of this Act or at any time thereafter, by an individual or a local authority or an agency or a contractor, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit into which the human excreta from the insanitary latrines is disposed of, or on a railway track or in such other spaces or premises, as the Central Government or a State Government may notify, before the excreta fully decomposes in such manner as may be prescribed, and the expression “manual scavenging” shall be construed accordingly. - Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act 2013

  8. Operational Definition Manual Scavengers means a person engaged in or employed for manually clean the manhole or night soil without using any proper safety measurements in Chennai, Tamilnadu.

  9. AGE EDUCATIONAL STATUS

  10. 14 Suffocation (Gas Affect) Issues Faced by the Respondents

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  12. Main Findings • Caste and Religion - Hinduism and Muslim – Adi dravidar, Parayar, Vanniyar, Nadar. • Early Marriage • Generation Workers • Basic needs • Place discrimination

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  17. Thank you ! Where there is a will there a way!!!!!!!!!!

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