Consideration of social behaviour of women workers while designing a dust protection face mask, to be used in a highly dusty environment


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Creator/Artist: Apurba Mondal

Category: Product Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. G. G. Ray


Detailed Description

India is the world’s second-largest producer of bricks, with over 200 million bricks manufactured a year in the 100,000 units across the country, where 65 per percent of it gets manufactured in the Indo-Gangetic plains. The workers in the unorganised brick-making sector are most vulnerable to physical, economic and mental exploitation with no systematic record of them. Fixed chimney bull trenches and the clamp are the two types of kilns which are used in India which have higher black carbon and dust emissions compared to the Hoffman kilns being used in China. The paper focuses on the workplace-related hazards faced by the workers, which results in respiratory disorders, and to create design interventions in the clothing of the female workers with and without the usage of standard filter fabrics which would be socially accepted by the workers.