Waste workers
Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Status in Nigerian E-waste Workers: A Cancer Risk Predictive Study
... GPx is a selenium dependent enzyme with peroxidase activity whose main biological role is to protect the organism from oxidative damage. The biochemical function of glutathione peroxidase is to reduce lipid ...
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The health risks of informal waste workers in the Kathmandu Valley: a cross-sectional survey
... female waste workers had poorer uptake of antenatal care and there was lower awareness of how to prevent sexually-transmitted ...migrant workers from ...
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Prevalence of Adverse Health Effects among Municipal Solid Waste Workers, Southern Thailand
... solid waste workers. They were recruited from workers who worked on 5 sanitary landfill areas in southern Thailand, between January and May ...solid waste workers were significantly ...
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Health Assessment of Electronic Waste Workers in Chile: Study Design and Participant Characterization
... electronic waste (e-waste) recycling work, which is increasingly common in low- and middle-income countries, and very little is known about this in high-income ...recycling workers in Chile, which ...
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Prevalence and injury patterns among electronic waste workers in the informal sector in Nigeria
... e-waste workers were interviewed, comprising 55% of repairers and 45% of ...the workers was 30±9 years (repairers: 32±8 and dismantlers: ...the workers had some training on e-waste ...
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Health Risks Awareness of Electronic Waste Workers in the Informal Sector in Nigeria
... To evaluate the differences in the mean knowledge, attitudes and practices scores between job designations, a series of one-way ANOVA (for categorical variables) and linear regressions (for continuous variables) were run ...
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Health Assessment of Electronic Waste Workers in Chile: Study Design and Participant Characterization
... Self-report noise exposure in the study population, by job type and site Table S 6.. Self-report injuries in the study population, by job type and site.[r] ...
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Investigating the Oral Health of Individuals with Depression: Finding from the 2015 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
... in waste work as an ...the waste workers, which included the waster workers’ self-proclaimed ‘hustler’ identity, which Thieme points out is an accurate description of their work, where the ...
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Achieving sustainable safety and health aspect in solid waste management
... solid waste workers rarely complain about the injuries that they get during working especially physical effect such as musculoskeletal, slip and trip, struck or hit by vehicles and ...solid waste ...
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Stress, health, noise exposures, and injuries among electronic waste recycling workers in Ghana
... recycling workers collect, sort, and re- pair or dismantle e-waste using crude de-manufacturing methods and very basic, non-specialized hand ...tools. Workers often remove plastic or rubber coatings ...
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Heavy Metal and Air Quality Assessment around a Healthcare Waste Incinerator Facility in Nigeria
... Abstract: Waste incineration represents a prominent waste treatment strategy applied towards the treatment of hospital waste in many developing ...of waste workers and the community to ...
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Performance and health assessment of the solid waste recycling centers in Jouybar and Qaemshahr counties, Iran (2018)
... of waste from the source could reduce the amount of unusable ...waste. Workers in this sector are exposed to severe health ...of waste recycling workshops in Jouybar and Ghaemshahr, Iran in ...
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Pulmonary functionality among workers of a Central Italy waste-to-energy plant: a retrospective study
... Decrease of lung function parameters after the 5 years period was recorded. Worsening in FEV1, FEV1/VC ra- tio (Tiffeneau Index) and in FEF 25 – 75% were consid- ered as a possible dust exposure effect [19]. Decrease in ...
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How a Nuclear Reactor Works Reading.docx
... release, many people began to see reactors as overly complicated and vulnerable to human and equipment failures, with potentially catastrophic consequences. They also worried about the radioactive waste from ...
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Psychological Resilience and Occupational Injuries
... The participants were 197 drivers from two Finnish waste transport companies. All of them were males. Most of drivers were middle-aged (26-50 years, 66%), whereas 22% were under 26 years of age and 12% over 50 ...
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The protracted waste crisis and physical health of workers in Beirut: a comparative cross-sectional study
... This is a rigorous epidemiological study controlling for many potential confounders. One potential variable that was not taken into account is the installment and usage of ventilation systems. We also minimized recall ...
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Knowledge, Attitude, Practices among Sanitary Workers Regarding Waste Disposal at Nisther Hospital Multan
... Medical Waste Management and its handling of steps like strict implementation of bio medical waste rules; compulsory training for their health care personnel, from accredited training ...
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BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE USE OF RESOURCES
... to go. Our job is to set Hong Kong and our citizens on that path now so that by 2022, the targets we have set in the Action Blueprint can be met. This requires many decisions to be made today – not tomorrow – so that ...
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Challenges and Prospects of Solid Waste Management in Ghana
... for waste management is not coping with the growth of urban areas (around ...and waste management is aimed at developing and maintaining a clean, safe, and pleasant physical and natural environment in all ...
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A workers’ inquiry or an inquiry of workers?
... the workers teaching them of their ‘historic responsibility’ and evaluating strategic points for ...of workers in the face of the latest assault on living and working conditions derive centrally from ...
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