Risk assessment for occupational safety and health protection in the remediation of contaminated sites
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Published:2001
A Feige-Munzig, 2001. "Risk assessment for occupational safety and health protection in the remediation of contaminated sites", The exploitation of natural resources and the consequences: The proceedings of GREEN 3: the 3rd International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the European Environment held in Berlin, Germany, June 2000, R. W. Sarsby, T. Meggyes
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The paper proposes a risk assessment method, which consists of two steps: danger analysis and exposition assessment. Danger analysis means the investigation of the hazardous substances and micro-organisms, of their hazardous, physical and chemical properties and the states of matter responsible for their mobility and emission behaviour. Exposition assessment begins with an analysis of the jobs to be carried out during remediation, and verifies the chance of exposition (see Box below). In combination with the data of danger analysis and the possible absorption routes, a possible health risk can be assessed, taking into account the limiting values used in occupational safety and health protection. Risk assessment saves money: the less is known about the hazardous properties of a contaminated site, the higher the level of safety measures must be, and the higher the costs of safety and health protection are.
1 INTRODUCTION
2 INVESTIGATION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
3 DANGER ANALYSIS
4 RISK ASSESSMENT
5 CONCLUSIONS
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