Occupational health safety is an essential requirement for waste workers’ health safety. In order to enlighten them on waste segregation and health safety, ESDO organized capacity-building training for city waste workers in order to enlighten them on waste segregation and health-safety on June 19 2021 at Lalmatia Housing Society School and College, Lalmatia, Dhaka, and on 21 June at Rangpur. A total of 40 waste workers took part in the physical training session in both locations.

In this training session, waste workers were educated about distinct hazardous wastes. It was also displayed through a flipchart that by not wearing safety equipment at the time of waste collection they can be infected by waste. They proposed to make use of four colors of bins (green, red, yellow, and blue) to segregate different types of waste. All of the participants in this capacity-building training complied with the proposal and exhibited their interest in using different bins for waste segregation.

At the beginning of the session, relevant posters and reading materials were provided to all participants and at the end, ESDO provided health and safety equipment containing rubber gloves, gum boots, masks and hand sanitizer to every waste worker.