In order to balance an economic growth along with the need to protect the environment, a wide range of green jobs emerged, but to ensure that those jobs are truly sustainable one must shore up they are providing healthy and safe working conditions.
This work aimed to know the risk of occupational exposure
to physical, chemical and biological agents in a waste management industry of
ferrous and non-ferrous.
The noise level that some workers were exposed was above
the exposure limit values but with the use of personal protective equipment the
noise levels were within the values established by law.
As far as vibrations are concerned, all workers are
exposed to a level of vibrations transmitted to the hand-arm system of the
lower exposure action value and regarding the level of vibrations transmitted
to the whole body, the levels were within established by law. Concerning the
assessment of the levels of illuminance, all jobs are within the recommended
values, ie, all evaluated jobs have enough lighting .
The level of the chemical or the level of total dust or
respirable dust levels, they were all within the exposure limits established by
law.
Total concentration of airborne bacteria and
fungi were determined as well as the prevalent species that could be
identified. The environmental micro flora is mostly composed of fungi although
the average counts of viable bacteria are slightly lower.
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