Child Labour and Health Hazards

The document titled “Child Labour and Health Hazards” has been prepared with the objective to generate awareness on the dangers faced by children at the workplace through various training and other interventions leading to sensitization of different sections of populace. It covers the agriculture sector, manufacturing sector and the service sector and attempts to highlight working conditions and the associated health hazards and risks for select occupations in these sectors where there is concentration of child labour. Occupations such as the Coal mining where children work in rat holes and suffer risk of death by inundation, or suffocation. In Automobile workshops children are exposed to toxic fumes. In Brick Kilns where children are made to carry excessive loads resulting in muscular pain. occupational hazards at the ground-level, underground and under water have formed a part of this document.