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Working women pickup, a considerable measure of new skill and abilities associated with driving an organization as well as with personal improvement. In this study, we assess the "Workplace Risk and Safety Practices Among Women Employees Working in Food Processing Industries". The field study was conducted to focus on their personal information, anthropometric measurement, job-related information, health status, workplace risk their facilities and safety practices to be followed in food industry. The data was collected by face-to-face interview method using a standard questionnaire with a simple random sampling method. The Selected samples were collected from the districts of Dindigul, Madurai and Tiruvannamalai. Among the selected women employees most of them in the age range of 20-30 from this 88% of samples were married. In this study, it is noted that 23% people are in normal BMI, 18% samples are overweight. 92% of employees are having weekly off and regular day shift time. Among them 98% of women workers haven't felt any gender discrimination, 8% people are having skin related problems and 44% are facing workplace hazard. The 50% of female workers are working with heavy machines never faced any chemical exposure, equipment's/machinery accidents and physical hazards. Among the samples are 100% of selected samples showed that industries provide safety gears for the women workers. Among the samples 92% of employees stated that in their industry they prioritize the women's workplace safety. 82% of selected samples told that they didn't provide any transport facilities for women workers is the only disadvantage for them to reach on time to the industry. The selected samples showed that 100% of the women workers are trained in basic first aid to handle immediate injuries, burn and so on. The samples showed that 80% of industries have medical facilities, 100% of the employees consider that the industries provide safety audit orientation program, continuous power supply, proper toilet facility, sanitizing facility and drainage facility.