Occupational Health

The global impact of e-waste: addressing the challenge

This paper by ILO explores the volume, sources and flow of e-waste, the risks it poses to e-waste workers & the environment. It also focuses on the regulatory frameworks.

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Source: International Labour Office

Tags:

Electronic Waste, Waste Recycling, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety, Developing Countries, India, Solid Waste, Waste Management, Global, Child Labour, Environment, Health Effects

Industry

China steps up its corporate social responsibility efforts

Corporate social responsibility has long been a buzzword in the boardrooms of the West, but it is relatively obscure in China.

Publication Date:

15/10/2012

Source: China Daily

Tags:

China, Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Environment, Occupational Health, Coca Cola

Health

Adverse Health Effects of Child Labor: High Exposure to Chromium and Oxidative DNA Damage in Children Manufacturing Surgical Instruments

A considerable part of the worldwide production of surgical instruments takes place in Sialkot, Pakistan. Many children work in hazardous conditions in this industry.  The researchers investigated exposure to metals and possible health effects among children working in surgical instruments manufacturing units compared with schoolchildren from the same city. 

Publication Date:

01/10/2012

Author(s): Muhammad Sughis, Tim S. Nawrot, Vincent Haufroid & et al

Source: Environmental Health Perspectives

Vol:

120

Issue:

10

pp:

1469-1474

Tags:

Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Occupational Health, Child Labour, Pakistan, South Asia

Health

Toxic tanneries: the health repercussions of Bangladesh’s Hazaribagh leather

This report documents an occupational health and safety crisis among tannery workers, both men and women, including skin diseases and respiratory illnesses caused by exposure to tanning chemicals, and limb amputations caused by accidents in dangerous tannery machinery.

Publication Date:

01/10/2012

Source: Human Rights Watch

Tags:

Leather Industry, Leather Workers, Bangladesh, Health Effects, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety, South Asia, Human Rights, Environment, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Child Labour

Pesticides And Toxins

Global Chemical Outlook: Towards sound management of chemicals

Coordinated action by governments and industry is urgently needed to reduce the growing risks to human health and the environment posed by the unsustainable management of chemicals worldwide, according to a by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Publication Date:

05/09/2012

Source: UNEP

Tags:

Chemical Industry, Toxins, Health Effects, Occupational Health, POPs, Pesticide Use, Africa, Heavy Metals, South Africa, Land Pollution, Water Pollution, China, Industrial Disasters, Cement Industry, Industrial Pollution

Environment

Pollution lapse finger at sponge iron units

Environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar today said sponge iron factories in the state had not responded to the government’s offer to undertake modernised projects for combating pollution.

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Telegraph (Kolkata)

Tags:

Iron And Steel Industry, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Ecology, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Occupational Safety, CSE, Occupational Health, Environment, West Bengal

Industry

Iron units yet to act on govt’s offer of CBM

The state government had offered lucrative packages to sponge iron units to switch to coal-bed methane (CBM) as an alternate fuel, but none of the units came up with a proposal, rued state environm

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Statesman (Kolkata)

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