PUBH7027 Assessment Task 1: Hazard Worksheet on Workplace Hazards

This assignment, PUBH7027 - Assessment Task 1, is a hazard worksheet focusing on environmental health risks within a business organization. The student analyzes various hazards including chemical agents (organic and inorganic), biological agents (micro-organisms and moulds), and physical agents (temperature and noise). The analysis covers agent identification, sources, media of exposure, exposure pathways, and drivers and pressures contributing to these hazards. The assignment also addresses risk assessment, differentiating between high and low-risk groups based on their exposure levels, and considers the acceptability of these risks among different groups within the workplace. The work references several sources to support the analysis and conclusions made in the hazard assessment.

PUBH7027 - Assessment Task 1 – Hazard Worksheet
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PUBH7027 - Assessment Task 1 – Hazard Worksheet
Your name: Student number: Year: Semester:
Environment:The environment that is to be accessed with the environmental health hazard will be a business organisation. It is a small group of organization that will be
consisting of owners, managers and the staff members in team concept. The workplace has global infrastructure that uses massive technology and communication
systems.. The workplace is situated at the verge of main city town. There could be changes of environmental hazards both obtained from the indoor and outdoor
environments. The indoor hazards can be electrical hazards, extremes in temperature and chemical hazards from cleaning products. Since the workplace is situated near
the polluted area of the city, there could be also chance of increase in pollutants from the outdoor sources.
Chemical Agents [ ORGANIC CHEMICALS] [INORGANIC CHEMICALS]
Agent ID They are the organic chemicals related to odour of the adhesives,
paints, cleaning agents
The inorganic chemicals.
Source They come from the indoor They come from the cleaning agents that are used for cleaning outside the
office. Fuels and combustion products used in outdoor of the workplace.
Source Media The exposure route from carrier to source includes the contact with
the agents on the exterior surface like skin or by inhalation
The travel routes of the chemical agents are the nostrils mainly in
inhalation.
Exposure The people are exposed to this pathway through the pathways of skin,
mouth, nostrils.
They are mainly through the nostrils.
Drivers and
Pressures
Mainly by cleaning or the paints and the adhesives used are the drivers
of the chemical agents being present.
The fuels and combustion products are the drivers and pressures from the
vehicles in outdoor area. The cleaning agents used for cleaning like SDS.
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PUBH7027 - Assessment Task 1 – Hazard Worksheet
Your name: Student number: Year: Semester:
Environment: The environment that is to be accessed with the health hazards will be a business organisation. It is a small group of organization that will be consisting of
owners, managers and the staff members in team concept. The workplace has global infrastructure that uses massive technology and communication systems.. The
workplace is situated at the verge of main city town. There could be changes of environmental hazards both obtained from the indoor and outdoor environments. The
indoor hazards can be electrical hazards, extremes in temperature and chemical hazards from cleaning products. Since the workplace is situated near the polluted area of
the city, there could be also chance of increase in pollutants from the outdoor sources.
Biological Agents [MICRO-ORGANISMS] [ MOULDS]
Agent ID Infections from the viruses, bacteria and parasites. Allergies from the exposure to mould and organic dusts (Bernstein 2016)
Source They come from the unhygienic environment of the indoor. They come from the pollutants of the outdoor environment that has
moulds and organic dusts.
Source Media They come through the damaged skin, inhalation, swallowing infected
food.
The come mainly from inhalation of the polluted dusts
Exposure The people in the workplace when come in contact with the infected
food, water, blood or other body fluids
The come from the organic dust, or from the clay and plant materials
Drivers and
Pressures
The drivers of the chemical agents are lack of proper hygiene
maintenance in the workplace (Rim and Lim 2014).
They come from the dust from the pollution of the outdoor environment.
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PUBH7027 - Assessment Task 1 – Hazard Worksheet
Your name: Student number: Year: Semester:
Environment: The environment that is to be accessed with the environmental health hazard will be a business organisation. It is a small group of organization that will be
consisting of owners, managers and the staff members in team concept. The workplace has global infrastructure that uses massive technology and communication
systems.. The workplace is situated at the verge of main city town. There could be changes of environmental hazards both obtained from the indoor and outdoor
environments. The indoor hazards can be electrical hazards, extremes in temperature and chemical hazards from cleaning products. Since the workplace is situated near
the polluted area of the city, there could be also chance of increase in pollutants from the outdoor sources.
Physical Agents [Temperature] [Noise]
Agent ID The physical agent is the extremes of temperatures The physical agent is noise
Source It comes from the air conditioners use. Comes from the vehicles in outdoor environment.
Source Media The temperature that is not maintained accordingly affects the people
working indoor.
Noises from the busy city traffic affect the persons through auditory
exposures.
Exposure Not setting the temperature according to the environment affects the
people working there.
Mainly auditory exposures.
Drivers and
Pressures
Wrong setting of indoor temperature (Stave 2016) The vehicles from the city traffics.
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PUBH7027 - Assessment Task 1 – Hazard Worksheet
Question 1 (Risk): The Chemical agents can affect both the rich and the poor staffs working. It can affect the owners,
working staffs as well as the people who are assigned with maintaining the clearance and maintenance of the
environment. The risk is high for the poor people who are directly in exposure to the hazardous chemicals while
maintaining the workplace.
Question 2 (Risk Acceptability): In the risk posed, the poor group of people will be more indulged to be acceptable
due to their direct contact with the hazardous chemicals. The acceptability intensity is also not less for the other
groups of people working in that workplace (Wang et al 2017)
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References
Bernstein, J.A., 2016. Occupational asthma. In Allergy and Asthma (pp. 253-270). Springer International Publishing.
Rim, K.T. and Lim, C.H., 2014. Biologically hazardous agents at work and efforts to protect workers' health: a review
of recent reports. Safety and health at work, 5(2), pp.43-52.
Stave, G.M., 2016. Physical and biological hazards of the workplace. John Wiley & Sons.
Wang, N., Ivey, C.D., Ingersoll, C.G., Brumbaugh, W.G., Alvarez, D., Hammer, E.J., Bauer, C.R., Augspurger, T.,
Raimondo, S. and Barnhart, M.C., 2017. Acute sensitivity of a broad range of freshwater mussels to chemicals with
different modes of toxic action. Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 36(3), pp.786-796.