Impact of International Standard System Application: In the context of ship recycling industry of Bangladesh

ABSTRACT Bangladesh is a developing country in which ship recycling industry plays an important role to make the economy strong. The opportunities for skill development are few with less-availability of safety measure create a great challenge through enhancing uncertainties and risks. As a result, many workers are being affected to serious diseases/injuries and have been killed in accidents. Environment is also seriously been polluted by this industry. Recently, govt. has taken some major steps to allay the problem. One of the major steps is international standardization of the industry. The study tried to explore how the working class is reacting to the new rules and actually what type of improvement happened in the ship breaking yards. To evaluate this, I have used some statistical analysis like, Data representation, cross tabulation, chi-square test, logistic regression model. The results show that most of the workers are now aware about risk and pollution caused by this sector and they are trying to adopt the rules and regulations formed for them. Yet, majority of the workers are not apprised of the rules of ship recycling industry. So, training for the workers should organize regularly both internally and externally. 1 1 This article is permitted to unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.