Primary prevention for worker health and safety: cleaner production and toxics use reduction in Massachusetts

Armenti, Karla; Moure‐Eraso, Rafael; Slatin, Craig; Geiser, Ken

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.07.006

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“…So, the bacteriocin can be used for leather preservation and handling of bacteriocin for leather preservation did not cause any health problem to the workers. Bacteriocin can trust 100% safe in health aspects and also no researchers have reported about the toxicity of bacteriocin so far [18].…”

Section: Worker Health Safety While Handling Of Bacteriocinmentioning

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Evaluation of New Bacteriocin as a Potential Short-Term Preservative for Goat Skin

Kanagaraj¹,

Selvi²,

Senthilvelan³

et al. 2014

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Common salt (sodium chloride) and chemical preservatives are used for preservation of skins and leather to protect from microbial attacks, which leads to severe pollution problem. Bacteriocin is an eco-friendly option for skin and leather preservation in leather industry, which contains antimicrobial and antifungal components their fluid. Bacteriocin was extracted from Lactobacillus plantarum isolated from chicken meat by submerged fermentation method. The bacteriocin was tested against the skin putrefying organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus putrefaciens by plate assay method, which showed the activity of 200 AU/ml for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and 340AU/ml for Bacillus putrefaciens. These two cultures were further analysed by SEM, which showed cleavage of bacterial cell walls due to action of bacteriocin. This study revealed the presence of antimicrobial activity in bacteriocin. Then the bacteriocin was tested for preservation of goat skin infected by skin putrefying organisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus putrefaciens, and its efficacy was studied. The microbial infected goat skin was preserved with 15% bacteriocin solution and stored for seven days at room temperature, which showed the complete inhibition of microbial growth even after seven days of storage. Then the goat skin was further processed into crust leather and which was analysed by SEM and physical testing data. The SEM analysis and physical testing data revealed no significant changes in the fiber structure of the skin due to preservation by bacteriocin. The pollution load generation (Total Dissolved solvents) has reduced at the level of 94.4% and 95.6% (of chlorides) during soaking process. The overall experiments revealed that the bacteriocin can be used as potential bio preservatives for preservation of skin and leather.

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Section: Worker Health Safety While Handling Of Bacteriocinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of New Bacteriocin as a Potential Short-Term Preservative for Goat Skin

Kanagaraj¹,

Selvi²,

Senthilvelan³

et al. 2014

AJMR

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“…[13] Particularly, occupational health and safety aspects seek to protect and enhance the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of workers in their jobs. [14] This article provides relevant results of a cleaner production program with the intention of contributing to the prevention, elimination, and/or reduction of occupational risks generated in a company dedicated to remanufacturing air compressors in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cleaner production in a remanufacturing process of air compressors

Esquer

Arvayo

Álvarez-Chávez

et al. 2016

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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This article provides relevant results of a cleaner production program conducted in a company dedicated to remanufacturing air compressors in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. The overall study design was based on an integration of acknowledged cleaner production and pollution prevention programs. Although this kind of program also involves environmental issues, this study focused on occupational health and safety by addressing different aspects of the work environment: ergonomic, physical (noise and lighting), and chemical. Particularly, ergonomic aspects were evaluated through the Modular Arrangement of Predetermined Time Standards (MODAPTS) method. For physical aspects, noise and lighting were addressed through Standard No. NOM-011-STPS-2001 and Standard No. NOM-025-STPS-2008 respectively. In addition, chemical aspects were analyzed through material safety data sheets and different search tools. Root causes of each risk were identified, and options to prevent, eliminate, and/or reduce each risk have been provided.

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“…For example, efforts to eliminate hazardous material releases to the environment through emission controls increase exposures to workers in some industries (Gray and Hartwell ; Ashford ; Armenti et al. ). Regulatory limits on particulate matter, metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and other pollutants emitted from industrial facilities reduce the overall risk for adverse community health impacts and environmental health impacts; however, workers are more likely to come into contact with these pollutants while performing maintenance to ensure proper operation of emission controls (National Research Council ; Hours et al.…”

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An Approach to Integrating Occupational Safety and Health into Life Cycle Assessment: Development and Application of Work Environment Characterization Factors

Scanlon¹,

Lloyd

Gray

et al. 2014

J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary Integrating occupational safety and health (OSH) into life cycle assessment (LCA) may provide decision makers with insights and opportunities to prevent burden shifting of human health impacts between the nonwork environment and the work environment. We propose an integration approach that uses industry‐level work environment characterization factors (WE‐CFs) to convert industry activity into damage to human health attributable to the work environment, assessed as disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs). WE‐CFs are ratios of work‐related fatal and nonfatal injuries and illnesses occurring in the U.S. worker population to the amount of physical output from U.S. industries; they represent workplace hazards and exposures and are compatible with the life cycle inventory (LCI) structure common to process‐based LCA. A proof of concept demonstrates application of the WE‐CFs in an LCA of municipal solid waste landfill and incineration systems. Results from the proof of concept indicate that estimates of DALYs attributable to the work environment are comparable in magnitude to DALYs attributable to environmental emissions. Construction and infrastructure‐related work processes contributed the most to the work environment DALYs. A sensitivity analysis revealed that uncertainty in the physical output from industries had the most effect on the WE‐CFs. The results encourage implementation of WE‐CFs in future LCA studies, additional refinement of LCI processes to accurately capture industry outputs, and inclusion of infrastructure‐related processes in LCAs that evaluate OSH impacts.

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Primary prevention for worker health and safety: cleaner production and toxics use reduction in Massachusetts

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

Evaluation of New Bacteriocin as a Potential Short-Term Preservative for Goat Skin

Evaluation of New Bacteriocin as a Potential Short-Term Preservative for Goat Skin

Cleaner production in a remanufacturing process of air compressors

An Approach to Integrating Occupational Safety and Health into Life Cycle Assessment: Development and Application of Work Environment Characterization Factors

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