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Understanding Environmental Pollution

Environmental awareness involves understanding how human activity impacts the surrounding air, water, land, and other natural resources. The document outlines 5 key environmental receptors - air, water, land/soil, nature, and community - and how pollution can affect these through air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise, heat, and dust. Reducing pollution helps protect ecosystems that all organisms rely on.

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Understanding Environmental Pollution

Environmental awareness involves understanding how human activity impacts the surrounding air, water, land, and other natural resources. The document outlines 5 key environmental receptors - air, water, land/soil, nature, and community - and how pollution can affect these through air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise, heat, and dust. Reducing pollution helps protect ecosystems that all organisms rely on.

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Environmental

Awareness

Prepared by: Erikha Joyce


V. Aquino
Environment
Surroundings
in which an
organization
operates
including air,
water, land,
natural
resources, flora
and fauna,
human and
their
Environmental
Awareness
5 key of environment receptors:
Air
Water
Land/soil
Nature
sources
Community
Important of
environment
Food chain
- A group of Ecosystem
organisms - is a community of
living organisms (plants,
interrelated by the animals and microbes) in
fact that each conjunction with the
member of the non-living components
group feeds upon on of their environment
the one below it and (things like air, water
and mineral soil),
is in turn eaten by
interacting as a system.
the organism above
it in the chain.
What is air
pollution ?
Air pollution occurs
when the air
contains gases,
dust, fumes or odor
in harmful amounts
which could be
harmful to the
health or comfort
of humans and
animals or which
could cause
damage to plants
and materials.
pollutants
produced by
human activity :
 Open burning
 Combustion
Engine Exhaust
 Plant emissions
 Pesticides used
 Radioactive fallout
 Fertilizer dust
Effects
Acid rain
Global warming
Effects of green house
Respiratory problem
The thinnest ozone layer
Water pollution
is the contamination of water bodies
are pollution occurs when pollutants
are discharged directly or indirectly
into water bodies without adequate
treatment to remove harmful
compounds.
Soil pollution
caused by the presence of xenobiotic
(human-made) chemicals or other
alteration in the natural soil
environment.
Noise
What is noise?
- Unwanted sound or undesirable
by listener.
Effect of noise

Tinnitus
 Deaf
 Acoustic trauma
 Permanent threshold shift (PTS)
 Temporary threshold shift (TTS)
Control measures
 Sound  Hearing
monitoring protection
instrument
• personal
 Ear muffs
monitoring  Ear plugs
 Dosimeter  Helmet enclose
 Dose badge  Ear canal cap
 Environmental
monitoring
 Sound level meter
 Audiometer
 Audiograms
 Audiometric test
Regulation
 Factory and Machinery Act 1989 (Noise
Exposure)
 Requirements:
 A permissible exposure limit is established.
 Method of compliance is by engineering or
administrative controls.
 Initial and ongoing monitoring is specified for
employees exposed above the action limit.
 Employees must be provide hearing protection
when exposed above the PEL.
 An audiometric testing program must be
provide for all employees who exposed above
Heat
 What is heat stress?
- Environment is too hot, the body is
not able to cool fast enough.

 Type of heat stress


 Heat stroke
 Heat exhaustion
 Heat syncope
 Heat cramps
 Heat rash
Control Measures
 Wear light-colored, loose-fitting,
breathable clothing such as cotton.
 Take a breaks.
 Provides water to workers.
 Wet Bulb Global Temperature (WBGT)
Dust
 What is dust?
- consists of particles in the atmosphere
that come from various sources.

 Health effects:
 Respiratory problem
 Asthma
 Coughing

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