The carpet industry is one of the most rapidly growing traditional industries in India. This is a handicraft and cottage industry that provides jobs right at doorstep of more than 100,000 workers, belonging to economically backward class of society. In the global carpet scenerio, the market share of Indian carpets is expanding rapidly. Jaipur and its adjacent districts are the major manufacturi...

the carpet industry developed various types of respiratory and musculoskeletal disorders, eyesight problems,  carpal tunnel syndrome and skin problems. healthy behavior of carpet weavers is not in a desirable level. we recommended appropriate interventions such as health service, education improvement and advocacy for promoting healthy behaviors of carpet weavers.

Since the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) wrote the first carpet cleaning standard in 1991, preconditioning carpet to maximize soil suspension prior to soil removal has been an industry-accepted practice. However, not until The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) implemented its Seal of Approval (SOA) program, which included spectrophotometer measurement of li...

results the mean age and work experience of workers were 31.39 ± 5.6 and 4.35 ± 2.5 years, respectively. among the exposed-to-noise personnel, 7.35% used hpds constantly; 75% used hpds for only short periods of time (less than four hours) and 17.65% did not make use of them at all. regarding the sound intensity and the level of noise reduction of hpds, among the 112 workers who used such device...

Youjiang Wang School a/Textile & Fiber Engineering Baik-Soon Cho and Abdul-Hamid Zureick School o/Civil Engineering Georgia Institute a/Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 The U.S. carPet industry consumes about 1.2 million tons of fibers annually and about 70% of the carpet produced is for replacement. The waste generated by the industry and from used carpet is estimated at about 2 million tons per y...

the cost of drying carpet which is done toward the end of the manufacturing process, is quite high. the carpet industry has been using convection drying for many years. little attention has been given to quantifying the effect of microwave power during the drying of carpet. an experimental system was developed whereby air was introduced into the cavity of a domestic microwave oven. the results ...

This paper reviews the role and importance of small-scale industries together with the issue of occupational health problems and their causes in Iranian hand-woven carpet industry as a typical informal small-scale industry in an industrially developing country. The objective of this paper is to review health risk factors and related occupational health and ergonomic problems in the carpet indus...