Leather industry
Debashish Roy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Bangladesh earns a lot of foreign currency by exporting leather and leather products but nobody thinks about the health risks of the workers. The leather industries use a lot of potential toxic chemicals. Both workers and owners ignore the risks. Due to the health risks and high labour cost, most of the European leather industries are moving to India and China. The research we have done at the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, suggested us to take immediate action regarding these health risks. The workers suffer from a lot of known and unknown diseases. We also got some expert (from Bangladesh, UK , and India) opinions regarding this problem. The threat is that if we fail to control this problem, leather export could be stopped in the near future. Because, according to the coming law, the exporter should not only see the leather quality, they also need to see the working environment.Someone should speak about this matter to the whole nation or to the government. As a leading newspaper, DS can play a role here.
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