Provide potable drinking water on their work-sites.

Most of the time, no attention at all is given to this aspect. Water for drinking purposes should be from municipal sources. If it is from well, or tube well, it should be soft, and free from hard salts or harmful coli. Cheaper arrangements of filtration could be undertaken on site by keeping 18" dia (or bigger) hume pipe, vertical, full of sand, and passing water from this sand media. Boiling water, and adding chlorine in required quantities, could also help. Many diseases come from the quality of water. Equal attention is required in storing the water, and periodically cleaning the storage tanks. Providing potable water to working labor will greatly help in keeping them healthy.

Provide hygienic toilet facilities on site.

Laborers are also humans. If we can have indigestion or bad stomach, why can't they have the same? Providing reasonable toilet facilities on site, will save lot of their time and increase productivity. It will keep surrounding sites clean. Besides, site-toilets will give dignity to labor.

Provide Training.

Provide adequate site training to labor, in whatever work, they carry out. Increase their skills; increase their knowledge of that particular subject. In short, go on hammering "dos and don'ts" to them almost daily. Give a person same type of work, day in day out. By this he shall acquire some skill in it. This exercise will greatly reduce mistakes, and greatly help in achieving quality and productivity.

Provide Crèches, if possible.

Where sufficient labor force is employed, learn to provide crèches. This will take care of children on site, and reduce wastage of materials. It will reduce accidents. Parents will be able to work without any tension of their children, and thus give better productivity. Children, who are future citizens, will start learning, including hygiene, manners at the very young age. It will make them responsible and law abiding citizen, when they grow. Small child, when he wishes you good-morning, or Namaste, it gives altogether a different joy. When children learn, they also pass on learning to their parents. Parents start loving their children, and caring for them. It creates a notable social uplift cycle.

Teach Labor to be Hygienic and un-alcoholic.

Small lectures in the labor-colonies (irrespective of the number) on hygiene will make them aware of the pitfalls. Once-in-a-while a movie on hygiene could be shown to them. Or regular movie (it could be even small parties on pay-day etc) could be arranged to be screened on site, where lessons on hygiene; negative points of alcoholic addiction, issues on beating of spouse, saving habits etc, could be hammered- in, in small doses. Care should be taken that this kind of teaching should be casual and in small lectures, so that subject is properly absorbed by them.

Make them save.

In a very freak fire on small site labor camp, Woman labor lost Rs. 50,000/-, a note bundle half burned. She was saving to repay loan, which she had taken from a moneylender, back in her village. You regularly read of suicides of farmers. They do not have savings. Whenever they need money, they borrow from sahukar, at very high rates of interest. They get caught in the web. Encourage them to open bank accounts. Bank accounts can be opened with Rs 10/- deposit only, without hassles and on mere recommendation in writing from the Builder/ contractor. Once they know that their money is safe and cannot be withdrawn, or appropriated by others, they will get habit of saving. This is a tried method. They will not loose money to loafers, money cannot be stolen, or burnt; money will not always be handy for liquor. After they start saving, next step will be to guide them to invest properly. They will indeed be a happier lot.