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Workers in the most chemical process industries are exposed to various toxic chemicals without considering health...

Workers in the most chemical process industries are exposed to various
toxic chemicals without considering health and safety measures that could
lead to different harmful symptoms. If you will be given a task to work as a
chemical engineer, for health and safety in the process industries, what
necessary measures and risk assessment techniques would you
implement in order to control and reduce the level of risk?

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As chemical engineers, we should take several steps for the safety of workers:-

A Safety Committee will be formed with the task of working regularly with safety issues. Itwill start to work with the following:-

assess chemical hazards and set priorities concerning the safety in the organization

contacts with authorities/laboratories to create a monitoring system for chemical hazards, and to reliably measure and/or estimate occupational exposures to chemicals when needed.

start collecting case studies of accidents and sickness records in the enterprise to create a basis for priority measures in the control of hazards.

identify chemicals in use and obtain information about their hazards. collect this data and make an inventory list of all chemicals used in the factory: create a Register for Workplace Chemicals.

use technical measures to prevent chemical hazards at source, and to prevent the transfer of dangerous chemicals.

If hazardous chemicals can be replaced by less dangerous ones then use less hazardous chemicals.

Amanda K answered 3 months ago
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