Terms of Reference
Role: Project Associate - Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh
Swasti is a global public health organisation committed to improving health outcomes for vulnerable communities by strengthening systems, building capacities, and enabling community-centered solutions. With a mission to add 100 million healthy days by 2030, Swasti works across multiple states in India and several countries globally, partnering with governments, communities, and institutions to address complex health and development challenges.

About the Project
Globally, the ILO estimates that heat stress contributes to nearly 23 million workplace injuries and 19,000 deaths each year, underscoring the urgent need to treat extreme heat as a responsible occupational health and safety risk. For apparel and textile workers, prolonged exposure to heat can increase the risk of dehydration, fatigue, heat exhaustion, fainting, reduced concentration, and workplace accidents.
It is in response to this growing risk that the Heat-Resilient Workforce Project has been designed to address these challenges,



under the aegis of Health@Work model. This project is a worker health and climate resilience initiative aimed at protecting apparel and textile workers from extreme heat-related harm across industrial clusters in India. The project focuses on embedding heat safety into everyday factory operations through Heat Action Plans, worker and supervisor training, early-warning dashboards, and practical workplace protections such as hydration, rest, cooling, and referral systems.
Swasti, with multistakeholders, will work with factories, district administrations, industry associations, brands, and technical partners etc to build a cluster-level model for coordinated heat preparedness and implementation. The initiative seeks to strengthen worker health, safety, and agency while creating a tested, evidence-backed Heat-Resilient Workforce Model that can be replicated across other labour-intensive supply chains.l
Key Responsibi

📌 Project Associate (Hindupuram)
🏢 Catalyst Group
📍 Hindupuram