Health Hazards in the Oil Industry

Health Hazards in the Oil Industry.

Health hazards of the pharmaceutical industry.

Extensive research is conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of candidate drugs prior to marketing and distribution, but few epidemiological studies have examined the occupational health of production workers who manufacture these drugs. This paper reviewed the occupational health research published during 1973-2014 regarding adverse health outcomes in pharmaceutical manufacturing worker...

Occupational and environmental health hazards in the plastics industry.

A brief description of the potential occupational health hazards encountered in the manufacture of plastics (polymers) is given. In general, these hazards are due to the monomers used to make the various plastics, to unreacted monomer contained within the finished products, and to the fillers, stabilizers, pigments, inhibitors, and initiators used in fabricating the finished products. They run ...

FORMALDEHYDE EXPOSURE AND ITS HEALTH HAZARDS IN A MELAMINE DINNERWARE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

This paper reports on formaldehyde exposure and its health hazards in a melamine manufacturing industry. The mean of workers' exposure was measured according to 3500 NJOSH and was found to be 1.44±O.2l, and 2. 17±O.24 ppm in morning and evening shifts, respectively. For stationary ones it was 1.37±O.20, and 2.06±O.25ppm, respectively. The results show that formaldehyde concentration at the...

Thermal Hazards in the Chemical Industry

Thermal hazards can be broadly divided into two categories: energy released during desired reaction and energy released during unwanted reaction. The first of these encompasses enthalpies of reaction, crystallisation, melting, and dissolution whilst the second is usually associated with heats of decomposition reaction. The majority of incidents are caused by either equipment failure (e.g. loss ...