Vol.1, No 4, 1999 pp. 107 - 113
UDC 331.45:677

THE SOURCES OF DANGERS AND THE CHARACTER
OF INJURIES AT WORK IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY
Cvetko Z. Trajković, Dragan M. Djordjević
Faculty of Technology, Leskovac, Bulevar oslobodjenja 124, 16000 Leskovac Yugoslavia

Abstract. The garment industry is a specific branch because more than 70 % of time is spent on dealing with work objects. It demands great concentration of workers because, while doing basic movements with arm, hand, fingers, eyes, body, leg, foot, a lot of injury causing mistakes can be made. Since the level and results of protection at work have been experimented, especially concerning the level of injuries at work, the most frequent characteristics of technological processes in the garment industry are described in this essay with a special review the sources of dangers. Five years long observing of injuries at work in the garment industry  "Inkol" in Leskovac has revealed some very interesting data about kinds and number of injuries. It's established that the number of injured workers ranges from 2.5 % to 4.8 % related to the average number of the employed and most frequent injuries are caused by machine pinpricks. Approximately 202 working days have been lost a year because of these injuries.
Key words: injuries, garment industry, protection.

IZVORI OPASNOSTI I KARAKTER POVREDA NA RADU
U KONFEKCIJSKOJ INDUSTRIJI
Industrija konfekcije je specifična grana po tome što se pri obavljanju pojedinih operacija rada troši i više od 70 % vremena na rukovanje predmetima rada. To zahteva veliku koncentraciju radnika, jer se pri obavljanju osnovnih pokreta rukama, šakom, prstima, očima, telom, nogom i stopalom mogu napraviti greške koje mogu izazvati povrede. Kako se nivo i rezultati zaštite na radu ogledaju, pre svega u kretanju povreda na radu, to su u ovom radu opisane najznačajnije karakteristike tehnoloških procesa izrade odeće sa posebnim osvrtom na izvore opasnosti. Praćenjem povreda na radu za period od 5 godina u konfekciji "Inkol" u Leskovcu, došlo se do vrlo zanimljivih podataka o vrsti i broju povreda. Ustanovljeno je da se broj povredjenih radnika u toku godine kreće od 2,5 do 4,8 % u odnosu na prosečan broj zapošljenih i da najviše povreda nastaju usled uboda mašinske igle. Zbog zadobijenih povreda na radu izgubljeno je prosečno 202 radnih dana godišnje.