Report on Environmental and Sustainability in Automotive Workplace

This report assesses environmental and sustainability best practices within an automotive workplace, covering waste disposal, hazard identification, and risk management. It details duty holder responsibilities under health and safety acts, identifies environmental hazards such as lighting, dust, noise, and chemical exposure, and outlines associated penalties. The report explores waste management strategies, including supplier environmental practices, trade waste permit compliance, and spill prevention measures. It addresses dangers related to airborne particles, gases, fumes, and hazardous goods, emphasizing ventilation methods and the importance of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). Furthermore, the report discusses noise management activities, contingency planning, and the environmental impact of mixed waste. Recommendations for waste reduction, staff training, and landfill management are provided, along with insights into environmental regulations and staff accident reporting. The report also covers ethical considerations in hiring, risk management education, and the importance of truthfulness to authority. Practical waste minimization strategies, such as reducing excess packaging and promoting closed-loop recycling, are suggested, alongside measures for controlling air-borne particles using air ionizers, fume arms, and downdraft tables. The document concludes by highlighting the importance of proper waste disposal by licensed contractors and the necessity of secure storage for oil and chemical products to prevent environmental pollution.

Assessment 1
2.1
 Waste of Automotive repair workplace is discomposed a proper manner. Collected the
waste and then legal way to discomposed, recycle or reuse the product.
 Placed shuttling tools between workplace and stationary cabinet because it helps to
manage small pieces and moving the heavy pieces.
 Any liquids or beverages that escape should be cleaned up instantaneously because it
creates an injury to employees or creates the floor dangerously.
 Automotive tools are costly so it can be reused or repair the tool which reduced the
cost.
2.2
Duty holder
uncontrolled conduct
which occurs serious
injury or death or
illness
disappointment to
fulfil with a health
and safety Act which
occur serious injury or
death
disappointment to
fulfil with a health
and safety Act
Signal Employ $300,000 or 5 years $150,000 $50,000
Officer or
Businessmen
$600,000 or 5 years $300,000 $100,000
Organization $3,000,000 $1,500,000 $500,000
3.1

Lighting, dust, Noise, clod, heat stress, floor surface, electrical hazards, manual tasks hazards,
confined spaces, biological hazards, dangerous goods, fatigue, chemicals hazards, and affecting
the surrounding environment etc. environment hazards occur on workplace due to cleaning the
plants.
3.2
S.No Penalties Approach Amount
1. Wilful penalties $5000
2. Serious penalties $7000
3. Other than serious
penalties
$7000
4. Repeated Penalties $70,000
3.3
Non-toxic products, motor products, toxic product, paper waste, bottles, unnecessary plants,
bricks, little packaging, Glass, Paint, oil, fire products, Compositions product, electricity product
etc. The rubbish product should be removed from the workplace.
4
Question for supplier environmental practices
 What steps taken to reduce the packing of good?
 Do you use reuse the products?
 Do you recycle your waste product?
 Do you collect all waste?
 What thing is used for the carry the product?
5

Workplace Replace luminescent globes with fluorescent tubes to protect power as well as
moderate air conditioning loads and decrease labour needed to change globes for the waste
and energy conversations.
6
According to trade waste permit, each organisation must be disposed of their waste correctly. It
collected all wasted expected hazardous waste or liquid waste and then disposed of. A permit
is issued date wised.
7
There are used three steps bundling to avoiding the spillage of oil or chemical product. The tank
should be Regulations, Holding capacity, unwanted water backlog and elimination, Anti-noise
bunds, and Re-greening bunds. A new tank should be passed Hydrostatic tests and Visual
Inspection.
8
Businessmen can be used Stop the spill method (decrease the level of contamination store
water) Contain the spill method (control the flow of stormwater drains) and Clean up the spill
(for the save the environment).
9.1
Dangers of Airborne:
 Health issue like as chest pain, heart diseases, headache, lung cancer, asthma,
bronchitis, and emphysema
 Serious blood and breathing illness
 The respiratory system cells are damaged.
Hazards of gases and fumes
 It occurs nose, eyes or throat irritation and dizziness and Nausea.
 Cause the number of type cancer such as urinary tract, larynx, and lung,

 It is also damaged nervous system and kidney.
 It's reason for Parkinson’s symptoms.
9.2
Dangers goods are hazards properties which are not controlled by the organization and affect
the human health or safety. Dangers goods are divided into 9 classes such as
 Explosives
 Flammable Liquids
 Gases
 Miscellaneous Dangerous Goods
 Oxidizing Materials
 Flammable Solids
 Radioactive Substantial
 Infectious & Toxic Substances
 Corrosives
MSDS referred Material Safety Data Sheet. It contained the information protect from a different
type of hazards like (fire, health, environment, and reactivity). MSDS is a health and safety
program which holds use, emergency procedures, handling, and storage information.
9.3
Natural Dilution Ventilation (add fresh air through the opening window, or fan), Mechanical
Dilution Ventilation (using roof exhaust fans, fans, and prevent the airborne) and Local Exhaust
Ventilation (removing gases and welding fumes) methods can be used for Ventilation on the
workplace. Natural Dilution method is less effective and Local Exhaust is more effective.
10.1
Activity to manage the Noise

 Take information about assessing the Noise from the neighbouring area and working
only approved hours. It can be set the noise level
 Working place doors should be closed to reduce the noise effects.
 Work completed in the indoor area and used magnetic and mats, bracing bodywork
sandbags, etc
 Repairing and oiling the tool which occurs the noise.
 Select equipment or quieter machines, such as silenced air tools, silenced air
compressors, diminished grinding discs and inclusions etc.
10.2
Conduct Research:
Auto part name Workplace working
time (single day)
Total working
time ( in the
week)
Creating the
Noise level
Need of
silencers
Rubber boots 4 hours 20 hours 4 - 5 DB No
Rubber Hose 2 hours 10 hours 6-7 DB Yes
Engine Mounts 3 hours 15 hours 2-3 DB No
Control Arm 3 hours 12 hours 6-9 DB Yes
11
Contingency Plan is programs which minimize or control the emergency effects and protect
human life.
Needs
 Recognized the risk or exposures which may be occurred in the organization.
 Set a high order of awareness
 Making the decision and process on the risk.

 Management of organization with safety and control way.
12.1
s.no Mixed waste Name Estimated Cost (per
tonne)
1. Greenhouse gas $40 per tonne
2. Other air $0.50 - $1
3. Water emissions $0.01 - $0.03
4. Amenity $1
5. disposing of waste $42 - $102
12.2
Recommendations when waste landfills:
 In the people create Awareness regard to waste reduction, supervision, and
management.
 Provide Training of staff
 The organic waste product should be managed.
 The private sector should be managed solid waste such as collect, recuse or recycle
 Landfilling should be accomplished where waste is dumping confirming utilizable
amounts of biogas.
 Transfer stations should be used before final disposal to avoid waste split-up.
 Rehabilitation and Closure of incorrect landfill sites.
13.1
Environmental regulation prevents decision-making on the project which may be hurt
communities, environment and economy. It is a framework for the staff which defined their

environmental responsibility for control the environmental pollution, monitoring toxic
contamination, protecting ecosystems, and preventing oil spills.
13.2
Staff accidental report form include following information such as
 Report design date
 Type of report method
 Personal details of staff
 Details of disease which occur due to the accident
 Accident (event) info such as date, time, and place

Assessment 2
Question 1
Hire and Recruit well:
At the workplace, employee hire and recruitment play a major role because it affects moral and
ethical issues, decision making and circumstances.
Risk management education:
Staffs are needed to educate about the Risk. Risk education included time of risk, place of risk,
risk level, the effect of risk and solves the risk. Risk education need for staff to solve the risk
and decrease the risk effects in the workplace.
Speak truth to authority
Staff speak truth to authority about workplace situation because it needs to solve or handle the
situation easily ad effective manner.it is created the health workplace environment.
Legal should not be the litmus test
The organization is defined the legal and ethical rule for the employees. The legal rule does not
need to pass the litmus test. At the workplace, the company is defined ethical and moral for
the company.
Define the Goals and policy
Organization defined their goals and policy for the employees. It is needed for the company
success. Goals and policy is a help to define morals and ethics in the workplace that is decided
the company standards in the markets.
Question 2
Minimise the waste product:
 Define the recycle rule
 Do not use plastic bags, plastic bottles, and disposable plates.

 Food waste is a major plan so make a plan for the meal.
 In the workplace, reuse the container.
 Composed the waste material which is used in the garden place.
Question 3
Minimise the excess packing of goods:
 Avoid the buy the packed product like fruits, vegetables, Breasts and used Second-hand
products or reusable bags.
 Buy the product in the bulk which reduces the packing or plastic bags.
 Buy the reusable product such as refillable wine bottles rechargeable batteries, and
reusable bowls.
 Avoid takeaway food because it needs packing the food.
Question 4
Car manufacturing industry Strategy for the reduce waste and energy conversation such as
 Preparation more closed-loop recycling
 Rental, instead of sell, goods
 Increase product usability
Question 5
The organization chooses their private waste contractor to collect the waste. According to
trade waste permit, the organization makes sure that their wastes are secure and collected
proper manner. It also makes sure that their waste disposed legal way and disposed of by the
licensed organization. All waste transferred is noted a legal copy which is safe for two years.
Question 6
The undercover and bound area is a need for storage and processing the operation on the oil or
chemical product because it reduces the pollution effect on the environment which occurs due
to leak or wast.it is also necessary the fire protection, process isolation and process recovery.

Oil and chemical product is sensitivity so easily react with environment cause some harmful
effect. So it stores the undercover area.
Question 7
Spill kit contains a shovel, drain covers, broom, sandbags, absorbent material, and booms for
the staff safety.
The process of using spill kit:
 Be safe
 End the source
 Safeguard stormwater
 Tell the supervisor
 Clean-up the area, cloth
 Organize Responsibly
 Restock and review
Question 8
Air ionizers (to create a negative icon which reduces the polarity of air partials), fume arms
(absorb the air-bone partials from smoke and fumes), and downdraft tables (filtration system
which is used air cleaning) are used by the organization to control or reduce the air-bone
partials.
Reduce the Gases and Fumes effects:
 Place the Source-capture Nozzle Properly.
 Use Back shields and Side shields, Limited Fan, and fresh-air Booth for Flexibility.
 Have Robotic Welding Space
 Ventilate the Tight Spots
 Perform Consistent Maintenance