LAHORE, Dec 31: Speakers at a seminar have stressed the need for adopting necessary safety measures to check and minimize ‘health risk’ in industrial and commercial units in accordance with the relevant ILO conventions.

The seminar held under the aegis of the All-Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions here on Monday noted with concern the plight of workers who mostly suffered due to occupational diseases at their work places.

Trade union leaders, including Amin Rathore, Khurshid Ahmad and Osama Tariq, said millions of workers all over the world were reported to be affected by such diseases while performing their duties. Similarly, they said, a big number of workers became victim of accidents.

The speakers said workers in their establishments, more or less, were deprived of adequate heath facilities. The causes of workers’ ‘bad health’ also included the installation of modern machinery besides their poor dietary habits, they said.

Many workers belonging to low-income groups usually got suffered from physical and mental tension, pains in small joints, backache besides their being hard of hearing, they said.