This presentation discusses the health and environmental issues related to the tannery industry in Bangladesh. It begins with an introduction to the economic importance of the leather industry in Bangladesh. It then provides background on the tannery industry, including the tanning process and its role in the national economy. The presentation outlines some of the key health and environmental problems caused by tanneries, such as impacts on workers, local communities, water, soil, and air pollution. It discusses the historical development of tanneries in Bangladesh and provides statistics on waste generation. The presentation also covers problems faced by the industry like environmental effects and diseases as well as prospects like export opportunities. It concludes by providing recommendations to various government ministries and other stakeholders to

1. Welcome to
Presentation

2. Presentation Title:
“Health and Environmental Security
of Tannery Industry In Bangladesh”

3. Introduction
Leather is the basis of one of the oldest industries in Bangladesh and
plays a significant role in the national economy with a good reputation
worldwide. Bangladesh leather is widely known around the world for its
high qualities of fine grain, uniform fiber structure, smooth feel and
natural texture. The tanning industry has two opposing aspects; it brings
economic prosperity for the country, on the other hand, it causes health
and environmental problems.

4. Concept of Tannery Industry in
Bangladesh
Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce
leather. This is an agro-based by-product industry with locally available
indigenous raw materials having a potential for export development and
sustained growth over the coming years.

5. Conceptual Framework of Health and
Environmental Security of Tannery Industry in
Bangladesh

6. Pictorial Aspects of Health Security of
Tannery Industry in Bangladesh:
 The health of the workers can be affected by the environment, workplace,
kinds of work, way of work, society and culture, and personal behaviors and
lifestyle. The health problems of the workers involve a holistic process, rather
than just one factor, and all factors are integrated with the workers’ lives.
The workers control machines and tools, and also the other way around,
machines and tools control the workers’ body. The physical body is the main
asset for the workers. They invest it in order to achieve better lives but
tannery industry hampers their health severely.

7. Pictorial Aspects of Environmental Security
of Tannery Industry in Bangladesh:
 Annually huge amount of solid and liquid wastes are generated from the
tannery house operations during the process of wet salted animals’ skins in
Bangladesh. All these solid and liquid wastes have the negative impact on the
aquatic life as well as ecological balance. . Moreover, the current waste
management system of the tannery industries is very suspect due to outdated
technology, defective drainage systems, lack of financial input, and the
exploitative attitude of their owners.

8. Historical Background of Tannery Industry
in Bangladesh:
 Global Background of Tannery Industry:
 Leather tanning is without a doubt one of the oldest human activities.
 In the beginning, skins obtained from hunting and livestock breeding could be
used for clothing or tents.
 During Roman times, leather was widely used in all the provinces of the
empire.
 Tanning was being carried out by the inhabitants of Mehrgarh in India
between 7000 and 3300 BC.

9. Background of Tannery Industry in
Bangladesh:
 The first tannery in Bangladesh territory was set up at Narayanganj by rp saha
sometime in the 1940s. It was later shifted to Hazaribag area of Dhaka, which
eventually turned into a place packed with various tanneries.
 Tannery industrial estate has been transferred in Savar with a view to providing all
sorts of infrastructural facilities and to make it environment friendly.

10. Environmental impact of tannery industry in
Bangladesh:
1.Impact on worker:

11. 2.Impact on neighboring:

12.  3.Impact on water
 4.Impact on soil
 5.impact on air
 6.Impact on others

13. "Problems and prospects of Tannery Industry
in Bangladesh"
Problems of Tannery Industry in Bangladesh
 (1) Environmental effects
 (2) Human Diseases
 (3) Effects on livestock sector
 (4) River pollution
 (5)Fisheries Sector
 (6) Lack of skilled workforces

14. PROSPECTS OF TANNERY INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH:
 (1) Availability of Raw Materials
 (2) Export incentives
 (3)Low cost labor
 (4)Focus on International business
 (5)Using skilled labor
 (6) Relocation of the industry
 (7)Developing Business Strategy

15. Recommendation:
 To the Government of Bangladesh:
 1.Order all Hazaribagh tanneries to immediately begin relocating outside
Dhaka city.
 2.Revise the Labour Act to strengthen penalties for the following offences:
 To the Ministry of Environment and Forests:
 1.Ensure all tanneries have an environmental clearance certificate for
industrial units.
 2.Design a comprehensive environmental strategy for the Savar relocation .

16.  To the Ministry of Labour and Employment:
 Take immediate action to enforce compliance by all tanneries with the
Labour Act (2006).
 To the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare:
 Design a comprehensive public health strategy to tackle the health problems
of residents in Hazaribagh
 To Foreign Companies Sourcing Leather or Leather Goods from Hazaribagh:
 Ensure all tanneries to maintainin international standards and Bangladeshi
environmental and labor law.
 To Bangladesh’s Bilateral and Multilateral Donors:
 Support a comprehensive environmental clean-up strategy for all tanneries.

17. Conclusion:
 Bangladesh has a wide range of social safety net programs targeting almost all
segments of the society who are at risk. But the transfers are often too small,
and programmed coverage too low, to have any noticeable effect on overall
poverty. The expansion of the SSNPs is a direct outcome of the recent
democratic form of government in Bangladesh. The government has been
reflecting on the political economy of the country for two decades where the
issue for poverty alleviation received special attention. However, with a
budget of 2.5% of GDP these programmed are highly inadequate in terms of
satisfactory coverage. These programmed are also inflexible in terms of
political commitment, unable to absorb all segments of poor, and
characterized by corruption and nepotism.

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