Introduction
infection, deaths, injuries
INFECTION, HAND INFECTION, DISEASES
The waste and sanitation workers in South Asian countries often face vulnerability to various occupational injuries and diseases and are financially and culturally marginalized (The COVID-19 pandemic has become a burden for their existing occupational health situation. Although the waste and sanitation workers served as the frontline workers during the pandemic, they became the overlooked group for COVID-19-specific training, support, and protective equipment distribution (Bangladesh is one of the hotspots of COVID-19, with 1,699,964 positive tested cases and 28,238 reported deaths till 25 January 2022 (To address the issue and ensure the occupational health and safety of the workers, the Department of Public Health Engineering Bangladesh, in collaboration with the International Training Network Centre of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (ITN-BUET), provided a capacity-building intervention considering their occupational health and safety (OHS), and infection prevention and control (IPC). The intervention included PPE delivery to the workers to ensure PPE use and training to enhance their personal and occupational safety management behaviour.While the high risk of infection and diseases among waste and sanitation workers and the recommendations for interventions have been identified through several studies in different LMIC settings (