Assessment of work place and lung function test among the brick industry workers in Wardha District.

Occupational Health problems among the workers in various industries in India are on the rise which shows a lot needs to be done in order to protect the health of workers. Present article wishes to draw attention to such workers who work in extreme environment that is the Brick workers. This study began with the objective to first assess the work place of the brick industry workers and to evaluate lung function test among the brick industry workers. A semi-structured interview schedule was prepared comprising of socio-demographic profile, clinical examination and pulmonary function test. 38% workers were found to have pallor. 68% workers had normal BMI while 32% were underweight. 93% workers were Afebrile and 7% were found febrile. As the duration of work increases the abnormality in pulmonary function test was observed to increase. More than 2/3rd workers had normal BMI and 1/3rd were found underweight. Only a few reportedly had fever, more than 1/3rd had findings of pallor.