Sentences with phrase «industrial chemicals in the environment»

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Trainers from OSHA will come to your business and provide 10 - to 30 - hour programs to cover environmental issues, how to work around hazardous materials and how to recognize various chemicals, in addition to other necessary tools to prepare your crews for the industrial environment.

There is the unjust exploitation of physical, chemical, biological, and zoological nature, the ecology in which human nature is embedded, by industrial and technocratic production processes of «megamachines» (L. Mumford) polluting and destroying environment after environment.

Chlordane, toxaphene, DDT and PCBs are all examples of persistent organic pollutants — chemicals that were once widely used in agriculture and manufacturing (or accidentally produced through industrial processes or combustion) but are now banned due to their adverse effects on human health and the environment.

Brief exposure in infancy to several industrial chemicals that are common in the human environment, particularly bisphenol A (BPA), caused fatty liver disease in adulthood, the researchers found in rats.

«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

ShakeAlert ™ can give enough time to slow trains and taxiing planes, to prevent cars from entering bridges and tunnels, to move away from dangerous machines or chemicals in work environments and to take cover under a desk, or to automatically shut down and isolate industrial systems.

Diversa plans to use the microbe's genetic information to engineer industrial chemicals that work in extreme environments, such as enzymes that break down harmful substances in oil wells.

We have over a hundred thousand industrial chemicals in our immediate environment that we are being exposed to daily.

Cement kilns co-processing hazardous waste are explicitly mentioned in the Stockholm Convention as an industrial source having the potential for comparatively high formation and release of these chemicals to the environment.

Heavy equipment, complicated machinery, and dangerous chemicals can create major safety hazards in industrial environments, and workers can sometimes be injured due through no fault of their own.

Expert in installation, repair and maintenance in commercial and industrial environments such as chemical plants, schools, hospitals and factories comprising of gas, water, fuel and plumping piping systems.

The Role: * Carry out all electrical and mechanical maintenance across the site * Maintaining manufacturing plant * Carrying out continuous improvements * Working well in a team but also independently * Working Alternating Shifts 2pm - 10 pm / 6 am -2 pm The Person: * Electrical Biased Maintenance Engineer from a manufacturing environment * Must have mechanical knowledge * Be flexible to working alternating shifts and willing to work at heights * Working as part of a Team Keywords: Electrical, Mechanical, Multi-Skilled, Maintenance, engineer, technician, planned, reactive, Fault Finding, industrial, manufacturing, production, PLC's, Siemens, paint, FMCG, pharmaceutical, chemical, food, East London, Barking, Ilford, Dagenham, Canary Wharf, Poplar, E16, Walthamstow

Also writing for The Conversation, Professor of Environmental Science at Macquarie University, Mark Taylor, writes that some of the chemicals known to cause serious neurological and behavioural problems are still used in industrial products or are found in the environment, making keeping track of their use and distribution nearly impossible.