They also suggested the local melamine manufacturers to use 100 percent melamine powder instead of urea as raw material to produce melamine products.

PPE is designed to protect employees from serious workplace injuries or illness resulting from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Besides face shields, safety glasses, hard hats, and safety shoes, PPE includes a variety of devices and garments such as goggles, coveralls, gloves, vests, earplugs, and respirators.

The speakers recommended these at a seminar on safe use of melamine powder in melamine industry organised on Thursday in Dhaka. Royal Thai Embassy in Bangladesh organised the seminar in a bid to raise awareness among the melamine product manufacturers of Bangladesh regarding quality and safety issues in production.

Suphat Chitranukroh, ambassador of Royal Thai Embassy to Bangladesh, Md Safiqur Rahman, director general of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI), Charoenchai Prathuangsuksri, managing director of Thai MFC Manufacturer, Rashed Maksud Khan, president of Thai and Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce, were present at the seminar.

Bangladesh has six export-oriented melamine manufacturing companies, where lack of knowledge about the use of raw materials properly exposes the workers to different health hazards, said BSTI Director General Safiqur Rahman.

He said, "If Bangladeshi melamine producers become more aware of the use of raw materials, the country can get more GSP (Generalised System of Preference) facility from the international market".

Thai ambassador said Thailand has improved a lot in melamine sector in the last few years. So, Bangladeshi entrepreneurs can take help from Thailand to boost its melamine export.

Thailand has 30 percent market share in Bangladesh's melamine sector.