scholarly journals Health and Safety Issues of Industry Workmen

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3184-3188
Author(s):  
F. Siddiqui ◽  
M. A. Akhund ◽  
A. H. Memon ◽  
A. R. Khoso ◽  
H. U. Imad
Keyword(s):  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Milling Process ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Flour Milling ◽  
Outer Covering ◽  
Flour Dust ◽  
Health And Safety Issues

Flour milling is considered the oldest trade industry, initiated at least 6000 years ago. Like every other industry, numerous problems arise during functioning and maintenance operations. The production process involves the breakdown of grains to separate their outer covering and inner endosperm grinding to fine flour particles. Workers serving in the industry have been in an environment exposed to flour dust. After conducting several interviews and a questionnaire survey to the workers and sales managers of flour mills within Hyderabad in Pakistan, the workforce was found to be suffering from sensitization, occupational asthma, allergic rhinitis, obstructive lung diseases and eye infection. The core reason was the inhaled and swallowed flour dust. The majority of the respondents highlighted improper flour milling process including intake and final product collection systems as the main causes of these health problems. The other part of the research work revealed that the majority of safety issues emerged due to the unavailability, the failure to use and the unawareness of personal protective equipment. Regarding the suggestions received during the survey from respective stakeholders, the health and safety issues can be controlled by improving feeding and collection systems and by wearing personal protective equipment.

CONTRACTOR SAFETY IN SPILL RESPONSE1

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-247
Author(s):  
Quek Qiuhui ◽  
Zerlina Toh
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spills ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Training Standards ◽  
Health And Safety Risks ◽  
Actual Response ◽  
Health And Safety Issues

ABSTRACT Oil spills are fortunately not a daily event. However, when they do occur, many people are emotionally stirred into wanting to contribute to the clean up. These volunteers (e.g. Nakohdka, Erika, Prestige spills) and contractors come from a myriad of backgrounds and skills. They want to be assigned meaningful roles so they can feel ‘useful’. The additional risks imposed on the overall management of the spill response must be carefully assessed and managed. All responders will inevitably be exposed to health and safety issues in the response. It is important to advocate health and safety during peace time to eliminate the exposure of the responders and contractors to potential hazards during an actual response. The challenge is to identify appropriate training standards that will ensure the competence of contractors’ knowledge and awareness of safety protocols during a response. Properly trained contractors are an invaluable asset during a spill response where they are effectively integrated into the overall response structure. Trained contractors in Singapore have been tested in real time exercises and were incorporated successfully in actual spill responses. During spill response, contractors have safely participated in the response and clean-up activities. It has been demonstrated that contractors who have undergone training have a higher level of safety awareness as compared to those that have not undergone training. This paper will discuss generally our training for contractors during peace time and specifically the health and safety modules, personal protective equipment (PPE) usage, safe handling of oil spill equipment / chemical dispersants and expectations of an individual in a spill. The paper will also briefly discuss the assignment of ‘volunteers’ during a spill response on how their skills can be best deployed and utilized with keeping health and safety risks as low as possible.

Policy Recommendations to Reduce Toxic Exposures for Nail Salon Workers

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Liou ◽  
Catherine Porter ◽  
Thu Quach
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Government Oversight ◽  
Regulatory Perspective ◽  
Nail Salon ◽  
Health And Safety Issues ◽  
Nail Salon Workers

The nail salon sector is growing rapidly. Nail salon workers are predominantly Vietnamese immigrant women who are exposed to numerous harmful chemicals in nail care products. The situation is exacerbated by limited safety information, language barriers to information, and lack of government oversight. This brief discusses the health and safety issues faced by workers at the nexus of environmental and worker justice and the policy recommendations by which to address these issues from a public health and regulatory perspective. Although these policy recommendations pertain to California where the sector is largest, they also have far-reaching implications at the national level.

scholarly journals The postcode lottery of safety: COVID-19 guidance and shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for UK police officers

2021 ◽  
pp. 0032258X2110187
Author(s):  
Camilla De Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Police Forces

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant changes to police working practices involving the enhanced wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE), and ways of working inside and outside of police stations. The safety guidance released by the various government agencies has been conflicting, confusing and unhelpfully flexible, and there are significant discrepancies between some of the 43 forces of England and Wales. This article draws on primary interview data with 18 police officers from 11 UK police forces to explore the problems that officers faced in accessing appropriate PPE and the difficulties in obtaining and understanding accurate coronavirus health and safety information.

scholarly journals Nursing morale: what does the literature reveal?

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary E Day ◽  
Victor Minichiello ◽  
Jeanne Madison
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Quality Patient Care ◽  
Considerable Cost ◽  
Workforce Issues ◽  
Health And Safety Issues

There is increasing attention to nursing workforce issues such as recruitment, retention, turnover, workplace health and safety issues and their impact on quality patient care. A number of these problems have been linked to poor morale. While there has been a lack of consensus on the determinants of morale, it is clear that the outcomes of poor morale not only add considerable cost to the organisation but also impact negatively on patient care. This article provides a systematic overview of the literature surrounding nursing morale and the variables identified in the literature that impact upon morale, and discusses the implications for future research.

scholarly journals Nanoexposure, Unusual Diseases, and New Health and Safety Concerns

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1821-1828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuguo Song ◽  
Shichuan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Fibrosis ◽  
Lung Injury ◽  
Silica Nanoparticles ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Nanoparticle Exposure ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Accumulating studies in animals have shown that nanoparticles could cause unusual rapid lung injury and extrapulmonary toxicity. Whether exposure of workers to nanoparticles may result in some unexpected damage as seen in animals is still a big concern. We previously reported findings regarding a group of patients exposed to nanoparticles and presenting with an unusual disease. The reported disease was characterized by bilateral chest fluid, pulmonary fibrosis, pleural granuloma, and multiorgan damage and was highly associated with the nanoparticle exposure. To strengthen this association, further information on exposure and the disease was collected and discussed. Our studies show that some kinds of nanomaterials, such as silica nanoparticles and nanosilicates, may be very toxic and even fatal to occupational workers exposed to them without any effective personal protective equipment. More research and collaborative efforts on nanosafety are required in order to prevent and minimize the potential hazards of nanomaterials to humans and the environment.

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