Developing a screening method for the evaluation of environmental and human health risks of synthetic chemicals in the mining industry

Environmental Risks in Open Pit Mines: Representation of a Temporal Evolution Related to Water Factor

“…The increase of industrial activity in recent decades has revolutionized many lifestyles since the industrial revolution. The various ores processing levels into products of public or individual utility are known to be a source of a whole range of risks most of whom start at every step of ore extraction from its natural environment (Kříbeka, De Vivob, & Davies, 2014;Peck & Sinding, 2003;Singh, Ihlenfeld, Oates, Plant, & Voulvoulis, 2011). Accordingly, several environmental factors (EFs) are affected despite the diversity of environmental management tools available.…”

“…In open pit (OP) mines case, risks evolve and have different consequences on the living environment. Many studies expose the mining ecological challenges despite the solutions developed (Lintukangasa, Suihkonena, Salomäkia, & Selonen, 2012;Singh et al, 2011). Do they depend on the degree of influence on EF?…”

Highlights from the literature on risk assessment techniques adopted in the mining industry: A review of past contributions, recent developments and future scope

“…The results were indicative; the records of above average and below average safety records were compared and it was found that workers with above average safety records more strongly aligned with safety principles. The risk assessment system is developed for mining industry specifically to control chemical exposure and its ill effects [16]. The factors considered for the development of the new framework for risk assessment for synthetic chemicals used in the mining industry are: selection of hazardous property categories, the method for scoring the hazardous properties of the chemicals considered, the assessment of data quality, etc.…”

Explosion impacts during transport of hazardous cargo: GIS-based characterization of overpressure impacts and delineation of flammable zones for ammonia

“…Researches regarding the risk associated with hazardous material transport are quite extensive (Leonelli et al, 2000;Glickman et al, 2007;Zografos and Androutsopoulos, 2008;Reniers et al, 2010;Toumazis and Kwon, 2013;Kang et al, 2014;Saat et al, 2014;Chakrabarti and Parikh, 2013b;Van Raemdonck et al, 2013). Several studies focused on routing of the hazardous material cargos, the key approach was taking into account scheduling, location, and perhaps high risk routes and nods (Beroggi, 1994;Guo and Verma, 2010;Karkazis and Boffey, 1995;Erkut, 1995;Frank et al, 2000;Leonelli et al, 2000;Gunasekera and Edwards, 2003;Bubbico et al, 2004;Carotenuto et al, 2007;Singh et al, 2011;Mahmoudabadi and Seyedhosseini, 2014).…”