Question

What are some of the ways that new manufacturing plants in a port town might lead to new health challenges for the local area? What do you think the local policy makers’ priorities should be? In your response please indicate why you have given this answer and support your answer with research and examples.

Answer 1

Manufacturing Plants: A manufacturing plant or a factory is an Industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another.

Purpose of Manufacturing: The process of converting raw materials, cmponents, or parts into finished goods that meet a customers' expectations or specifications.Manufacturing commonly employs a man machine set up with divisions of labour in a lsrge scale production.

Port Town: is a town by the sea or on a river.

Great 10 Products that are manufactured in USA are as follows:

1. Computer hardware
2. Airplanes
3. Automobiles
4. Toiletries
5. Medical products
6. Clothing
7. Steel
8. Kitchen products
9. Furniture
10. Toys

Health challenges:

• It may damage the wellbeing of humans and other species.For example, manufacturing plants wastes can pollute drinking water supplies or poison plants and animals.It may interfere with natural processess.For example Pollution of the sea will affect the people who are involved in the fishing and tourism industries.
• Soil pollution is a result of land degradation, and it is caused because of human made chemicals as result of industrial activity, the improper disposing of waste and various agricultural chemicals.Soil pollution poisons agriculture and sometimes kills local vegetation.

Some examples of industrial wastes are chemical solvents, pigments, sludge, metals, ash, paints, sand papers, paper products, industrial by products,metals,and radioactive wastes.

Researches and Examples

1. A study was carried out in Oman to assess the link between environmental exposure and health.The study aim was to assess the health effects in a popullation of less or more than 20years of age, living in the residential area around the Sohar Industrial Zone.Results showed that people living within the high and intermediate exposure was associated with a greater risk ratio for ARD-Acute Respiratory Distress, Asthma,Conjunctivitis and dermatitis. These findings hope to contribute to building up evidence for environmental health and sustainable development policy in the country.
2. A study was conducted in Bommasandra and Jigani industrial areas , Bangalore, India during the period of Feb 2011 to May 2011.The study was conducted among human beings with an age group of 18 to 55 yearswho were living around the area.The results showed that about 40 to 70 persons with an average age of about 35 yrs who were exposed to air pollution for about 10 hours per day and with no family history of breathlessness, were selected for the study .The study results showed that people developed eye and nose irritation, skin irritations, respiratory problems.

Based on the above examples it is important to develop local policy:

• which should encourage manufacturing of the plants away from residential areas.And also to protect the lives of sea inhabitants all chemical, industrial wastes should not be dumbed into the sea as well on the soil or ground.
• Proper Education and training has to be provided to the owners, workers , redidents regarding the illeffects of Industries ,
• Pollution control certificates has be obtained by the Manfacturing plant every year.
• Manufacturing plants should be held responsible by providing compensation to people if any health hazard happens.
• And the manufacturing plant has to be shut down if an complication arises.