Worker Protection At Composting Sites: Safety and health hazards should be addressed using a hierarchy of control measures -- eliminate the hazard, reduce through management controls and finally, adequate protection.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Brown, Nellie J.
- Source
- BioCycle CONNECT. 2/24/2021, Vol. 2 Issue 8, p1-1. 1p. 1 Diagram.
- Subject
- *COMPOSTING
*MANAGEMENT controls
*ENDOTOXINS
*HAZARDS
*INDUSTRIAL safety
*HEARING protection
*MICROBIOLOGICAL aerosols
- Language
The article discusses composting as an organic waste management method involves mechanical equipment, physical labor and handling of diverse biological materials. Topics include the Occupational Safety and Health Administration oversees and establishes occupational health and safety regulations on a federal level; and moving parts of equipment has grab or entangle hair, clothing and people for operations or maintenance.