The work environment disability-adjusted life year for use with life cycle assessment: a methodological approach

Scanlon, Kelly; Gray, George M.; Francis, Royce A.; Lloyd, Shannon M.; LaPuma, Peter

doi:10.1186/1476-069x-12-21

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“…Chemical intake in each sector can be assessed by multiplying the number of hours worked by measured concentrations (Kijko et al 2013). For accidents at workplace, Scanlon et al (2013Scanlon et al ( , 2014 directly relate accident and health statistics in a sector to corresponding numbers of DALY, yielding DALYs per unit physical output of each sector. • Pesticide residues in food crops can be assessed using a dynamic model to determine the intake fraction, since dynamics of pesticides in the cropenvironment system and resulting residues in harvested crop parts depend on the time lag between application of the pesticide and harvest of the crop (Fantke et al 2011a(Fantke et al , b, 2012a.…”

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Life Cycle Impact Assessment

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LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment

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Aims and ScopeLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become the recognized instrument to assess the ecological burdens and human health impacts connected with the complete life cycle (creation, use, end-of-life) of products, processes and activities, enabling the assessor to model the entire system from which products are derived or in which processes and activities operate. Due to the steady, world-wide growth of the field of LCA, the wealth of information produced in journals, reports, books and electronic media has made it difficult for readers to stay abreast of activity and recent developments in the field. This led to the realization of the need for a comprehensive and authoritative publication.The LCA Compendium Book Series will discuss the main drivers in LCA (SETAC, UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, etc.), the strengths and limitations of LCA, the LCA phases as defined by ISO standards, specific applications of LCA, Life Cycle Management (LCM) and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Further volumes, which are closely related to these themes will cover examples of exemplary LCA studies ordered according to the importance of the fields of application. They will also present new insights and new developments and will keep the whole work current. The aim of the series is to provide a well-structured treatise of the field of LCA to give orientation and guidance through detailed descriptions on all steps necessary to conduct an LCA study according to the state of the art and in full agreement with the standards.

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“…An example is the interaction between different active ingredients or between the active ingredient and adjuvants in pesticide formulations (Benachour et al 2007;Benachour and Sralini 2009;Sanborn et al 2004). This is facilitated by assessing substances individually in available LCIA models.…”

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“…A holistic framework in which to consider the relationship between sustainability, green chemistry, and occupational health is the product life cycle [61]. The life cycle includes the supply chain as defined by Handfield and Nichols as encompassing “all activities associated with the flow and transmission of goods through the end user, as well as the associated information flows,” and also activities associated with recycling and end-of-life [62].…”

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“…Identifying and eliminating hazards to workers at the beginning of any manufacturing or production process design or redesign, including those informed by the principles of green chemistry, affords the opportunity to maximize health gains, as well as environmental benefits and cost savings [9,51,61]. Ultimately, public policies designed to promote green chemistry technologies can protect worker health by including occupational safety and health criteria.…”

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Occupational safety and health, green chemistry, and sustainability: a review of areas of convergence

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With increasing numbers and quantities of chemicals in commerce and use, scientific attention continues to focus on the environmental and public health consequences of chemical production processes and exposures. Concerns about environmental stewardship have been gaining broader traction through emphases on sustainability and “green chemistry” principles. Occupational safety and health has not been fully promoted as a component of environmental sustainability. However, there is a natural convergence of green chemistry/sustainability and occupational safety and health efforts. Addressing both together can have a synergistic effect. Failure to promote this convergence could lead to increasing worker hazards and lack of support for sustainability efforts. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has made a concerted effort involving multiple stakeholders to anticipate and identify potential hazards associated with sustainable practices and green jobs for workers. Examples of potential hazards are presented in case studies with suggested solutions such as implementing the hierarchy of controls and prevention through design principles in green chemistry and green building practices. Practical considerations and strategies for green chemistry, and environmental stewardship could benefit from the incorporation of occupational safety and health concepts which in turn protect affected workers.

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“…DALY is the measure of damage to human health by the summation of the metrics years of life lost and years of life disabled. DALY is classically applied to quantify the damage inflicted by diseases, but has proven useful in LCAs [26]. The loss of species per year is a measurement of the damage to the eco-system and represents the fraction of species lost over an area and time multiplied by species density.…”

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A Sustainable Design Repository for Influencing the Eco-Design of New Consumer Products

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Engineering designers are constantly seeking ways to be more innovative, decisive, and informed of emerging technologies in the design of consumer products. Design tools, such as functional decomposition, morphology, and Pugh charts help stimulate the design process. However, many earlydesign-phase design tools require designers to have experiential or empirical design knowledge; many of these approaches are intractable for use by novice designers or designers with little experience designing for certain new objectives. In contrast to these current tools, using repositories to store product design information can provide additional and extensive design knowledge to the global design community. Using repository data-and resultant data-driven design approaches-in the design of new products can be especially impactful for DfX design objectives such as product sustainability, about which many engineering designers have limited knowledge. In this paper, we discuss the creation of a sustainable design repository -a collection of product data that includes environmental impact information. Through the initialization of a 47-product repository case study, we seek to create data-driven design processes that can influence designers to consider environmental sustainability. We found, for example, that in the first year of a product's life, 29-64% of the environmental impact occurs during the product's use phase, and that uncertainty in input data (such as component manufacturing location and disposal method) can significantly contribute to environmental impact variation. The creation of this sustainable design repository highlights the need for the consideration of input uncertainties when conducting environmental impact analysis. Additionally, the repository has also been used in tandem with machine learning to understand design decisions that lead to more sustainable products. This sustainable design repository enables subsequent data-driven design research in that it provides a large dataset on which machine learning approaches can operate.

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The work environment disability-adjusted life year for use with life cycle assessment: a methodological approach

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Occupational safety and health, green chemistry, and sustainability: a review of areas of convergence

A Sustainable Design Repository for Influencing the Eco-Design of New Consumer Products

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