Access to Occupational Health and Safety Rights of Tannery Workers in Bangladesh

Abstract

The leather industry is a significant contributor to Bangladesh’s economy, with tanneries playing a crucial role in this sector. However, tannery workers in Bangladesh face substantial occupational health and safety (OHS) risks due to the use of hazardous chemicals and poor working conditions. So what is the way to protect the OHS’s rights of the tannery workers of Bangladesh is a question. In the present situation, the tannery workers are the most suffering groups and their protection is one of the main concern issues. For solving the problem there have been a lot of laws and guidelines but those are not implemented properly. The purpose of the research is to ensure that those laws and policies are enough to protect the rights of tannery workers. This research is qualitative and there is both primary and secondary data. The labor laws and policies are not well enough to protect their rights. Those laws and policies failed to provide.