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Knitting industry occupies a pivotal position in the economic dynamism of various countries. The workers in the knitting industry suffer from various types of health risk factors. The risk in the knitting industry is higher and the ability to control it is lower. The majority of the problems are due to poor work environment, manual work condition and long hours of static working posture in the knitting industry. The present study was conducted to study the health and nutritional status of the workers in knitting industry, located in the city Kanpur, India. Body mass index (BMI) technique was used to study the health and nutritional status of the workers. The 300 workers of knitting industry from four different sectors (spinning, knitting, dyeing, and printing) of the industry who worked in a knitting sector were randomly selected from each unit of industry. The anthropometric measurements viz., height in cm, weight in kg of each respondent was recorded. The results revealed that the selected sample was suffering from occupational stress and health problems. Out of total 300 workers, majority of the respondents (22.00%) were in CED Grade III (Severe) category followed by 16.00% in CED grade IV (Moderate), 14.00% in low weight normal, 12.00% in CED Grade I (Mild), 11.00% in obese grade I and 10.00% in obese grade II. Only 17.00% respondents were observed under normal nutritional status. Thus, the respondents were suffering from occupational stress and health problems.

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:The present paper is outcome of the research work under taken in All India Coordinated Research Project -Clothing and Textile (AICRP-CT) on mitigating occupational hazards. Here protective clothing and accessories were developed and field tested to assess the suitability among ginning mill workers. Two aprons, five masks, two types of hand gloves and ear muff for male workers were designed, developed and field tested during threshing to find out the suitability. The results of study revealed that developed functional clothing and accessories were found highly suitable by the cotton ginning workers.

Yarn spinning is a process of making or converting fibre materials into yarns for making textile fabric or products. In spinning mills, the fibres pass through various processes to convert them into yarn. Every spinning mill has different sections like opening, where the bails are opened. After that, fibres are fed to machines which pass through carding, combining machine finally twisting is done to convert into yarn. Every department has different number of workers to carry or supervise the work. All these processes lead to fibre dust and its quantum vary from section to section. Opening section has maximum fibre dust and it is minimum in spinning section. The workers engaged in spinning mills encounter different occupational health problems and for identification of their health problems, a questionnaire was developed. Thirty respondents were interviewed and observation of work environment was made. The results revealed that spinning mill workers were facing the problems related to coughing and sneezing, eye irritation, breathlessness due to presence of dust in the work environment. Sweating was due to work pressure. Workers were taking no precautionary measures to avoid the inhale the fibre dust. This being the predisposing factor causing health problem. Hence, the need arises for the use of appropriate protective clothing for preventive them to exposed to fibre dust.