Health Hazards among Children Labor in Car Repair Workshops in Rural Community

Abstract

Child labor is much uncontrolled in our society. It may be any society, if it is not regulated, child labor employed there. Specially, Automobile repairing workshops was observed that, lots of Automobile repairing workshops are seen in every city, town, suburban areas in the roadside of national highways, etc. They are not regulated and maximum of them use child labor. It is required to find out the scenario of child labor in Automobile repairing workshops. In Egypt, there are thousands of car repair workshops, where huge numbers of children work without any safety measures. A considerable number of children work in these workshops out of financial necessity because of the low socioeconomic status of their families (DHS, 2016). Car repair working children have higher rates of occupational health hazards compared to workers in other occupations. Work stressors are ultraviolet and thermal radiation, hot environments, noise, presence of dust, fumes, oils, grease and other chemicals, strenuous work postures, improperly designed tools and machinery and work in poor psycho-social environments (Vyas et al., 2014). Car repair workshops working children are exposed to various health hazards which result in various occupational or environmental illness including chemical, physical, biological and psychological health hazards (Nuwayhid et al., 2015).