Essays on Noise Pollution

Introduction

Quarry is a place that provides rocks, dimension stones, riprap, aggregates, gravel, sand, and other minerals and raw materials are excavated. Quarrying is included in the mining industry and is helpful to extract minerals and elements essential for civil engineering works and buildings. The output from quarrying is sold to different end users that carryout the marketing and promotions for the products. In Nigeria, Akamkpa Quarry is a source of stones and various forms of granite that are used for constructions and building works. The Quarry receives millions of dollars in international investment and contractors and international business rely ...

The issue of the pollution of the environment has been an issue that has always been addressed in different forums. This is mainly due to the fact that the continuous pollution makes the world less inhabitable for man. Pollution may be on different components of the earth; from water, to air to the ground itself. Various mechanisms have been developed as a way of ensuring that we are able to conserve the environment (Shaw 14). These may include measures like ensuring that the citizens use biodegradable products in order to prevent the instances of soil pollution, or ensuring that ...

The paper defines fracking, describes its merits and demerits. Besides, it discusses effects of fracking on the environment. It concludes that fracking should be stopped and offers ways of stopping fracking. Fracking is a concept that denotes a method of drilling into the ground then directing a high-pressure mixture of water at the rock as well as rock formations to produce gas and oil (Lane, 2013). The mixture consists of chemicals, sand, as well as water, which is directed at a rock at some high pressure to eject gas or oil to the earth's surface. A fracking procedure can ...

Introduction

Hazard analysis involves identifying and obtaining a solution to a hazard situation in the society thus preventing their consequences in the long run. Hazard situations are unforeseeable circumstances which require proper identification to avoid culmination into high risk situations. The need to identify and determine the risks pertaining to hazards is thus highly recommended. Hazards can lead to injuries and even deaths. Hazards affect the daily lives of the people in the world and thus require proper mitigation plans to settle them. Community hazard situations include physical, chemical and biological. Physical hazards include natural disasters and man-made disasters that ...

According to EPA (2016), environmental management involves the development of systems aimed at reducing environmental impacts of various activities. In the Brundtland commission report (WCED), sustainable development has been described as development aimed at meeting the current needs of the present generation. However, as the current generation focuses on meeting their own needs, their activities should not compromise the capability of future generations to also meet their own needs. Available evidence suggests that the future generation would have challenges meeting their own needs if the current generation fails to adopt sustainable practices. The sustainable development incorporates the triple line: ...

List of hazard identified in the construction site

1) Chemicals 2) Noise pollution 3) Melanoma 4) Eye injury 5) Manual handling injuries 6) Dusts

Assess the risks that may result from the hazards

1) Chemicals The leakage of chemicals outside the workplace may lead to environmental pollution leading to contamination of water, loss of life and unproductive land. Death of workers may result due to coming into contact with hazards; this may result by experiencing difficulties in breathing and other symptoms. Destruction of property may occur due to effects of hazard chemicals e.g. explosions. When some of hazard chemicals get into contact with the skin it may ...

The Role of Wind Energy in Environmental Conservation

Concerns over environmental pollution have been on the increase worldwide since the first signs of global warming became apparent in the 1980s. In particular, concerns over the type of energy source used in the world today have been the most obvious, with different parties taking differing sides over these issues. Of interest is the use of wind energy as a solution to the greenhouse effect. Wind energy has been in use for thousands of years, with some evidences available that early Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and even Romans used wind energy to perform some simple tasks such as winnowing, blowing fire ...