PURPOSE This study aims to investigate the occupational hazards among the abattoir workers associated with noncompliance to the meat processing and waste disposal laws in Terengganu State, Malaysia. Occupational hazards are the major source of morbidity and mortality among the animal workers due to exposure to many hazardous situations in their daily practices. Occupational infections mostly co...

Nursing assistants (NAs) make up a large share of the healthcare provider workforce and their numbers are expected to grow. NAs are predominantly women who earn a low wage and report financial, work, and family demands. Working as a NA is hazardous; this manuscript specifically examines the biological/infectious, chemical, enviromechanical, physical and psychosocial hazards that appear in the l...

The environmental consequences are defined as consequences of accidental release of hazardous substances to the natural environment. This release can lead to many hazards depending on the material stored. The consequences of these hazards to the environment are widespread and have significant importance to human communities living in the surroundings. The mathematical models are extremely usefu...

Insects are a promising future source of sustainable proteins within circular economy. Proving the safety insects for food and feed is necessary prior to supplying them market. This literature review provides state-of-the-art overview chemical hazards reared feed, focusing mainly on transfer contaminants from substrate. Contaminants covered are: heavy metals, dioxins polychlorinated biphenyls, ...

The paper describes the development of a comprehensive decision logic for selection and use of biological and chemical protective clothing (BCPC). The decision logic recognizes the separate areas of BCPC use among emergency, biological, and chemical hazards. The proposed decision logic provides a system for type classifying BCPC in terms of its compliance with existing standards (for emergency ...

The skin is an important organ of defense adaptation and a portal of entry for xenobiotics. It is vulnerable to physical, chemical, and biologic agents and capable of expressing responses to these agents in a variety of pathologic patterns. These patterns are characterized by morphologic and functional features which are elicited by careful examination and test procedures. Cutaneous cancer may ...

Health-based targets are measurable health, water quality, or performance objectives that are established based on a judgement of safety and on risk assessments of waterborne hazards. The Guidelines for Drinkingwater Quality (the Guidelines) describe four distinct types of health-based targets, applicable to all types of hazards and water supplies: • health outcome targets (e.g. tolerable burde...

INTRODUCTION Time-sensitive chemicals are those chemicals that when stored for prolonged periods can develop hazards that were not present in the original formulation. These additional hazards develop from inappropriate and improper storage conditions as well as simply storing the chemicals too long. In the field of chemical management, unfortunately we all too often hear of incidents involving...