An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

The construction industry is an important sector of the economy in Poland. According to the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) data of 2014, the number of victims of fatal accidents in the construction sector amounted to 80 as compared with 187 injured in all other sectors of economy in Poland. This article presents the results of surveys on the impact of construction worker behaviour on the occupational safety and health outcomes. The surveys took into account the point of view of both construction site management (tactical level) and construction workers (operational level). For the analysis of results, the method of numerical taxonomy and Pareto charts was employed, which allowed the authors to identify the areas of occupational safety and health at both an operational and a tactical level, in which improvement actions needed to be proposed for workers employed in micro, small, medium and large construction enterprises.     

Development of inherent safety and health index for formulated product design

The numerous formulated products which are introduced to the market consist of chemical ingredients that may cause various safety and health hazards to the consumers. Therefore, it is extremely important to practice a systematic methodology to formulate products with acceptable safety and health performances. This work presents an index-based methodology to assess the safety and health hazards of the ingredients during the early formulation stage of product design. Hence, new inherent safety and health sub-indexes are introduced to improve the current safety and health hazards that are needed in formulated product design. The inherent safety and health sub-indexes are assigned with scores based on the degree of potential hazards. A higher score indicates a higher safety risk or severe health effect, and vice versa. The proposed methodology will greatly assist the users to identify the adverse safety and health effects caused by the ingredients. Hence, it is pivotal to eliminate or reduce the safety and health impacts from product usage. A case study on common ingredients used in the formulation of paint is presented on this study to describe the proposed method.     

Altruism and environmental risks to health of parents and their children

This paper tests an equilibrium condition from a model that incorporates: (1) altruism of parents toward their young children, and (2) household production of latent health risks. The model demonstrates that an altruistic parent's marginal rate of substitution between an environmental health risk to herself and to her child is equal to the ratio of marginal risk reduction costs. Econometric estimates support this prediction based on data from a stated preference survey involving 488 parents of children aged 3–12 years. This outcome implies that parents reallocate family resources to at least partly offset the effectiveness of public programs that aim to reduce their children's environmental risks.     

Use of biomarkers in zooplankton for assessment of the 'health status' of marine and brackish environments: a short overview

The biomarker approach has been used for 25 years to study the environmental quality of marine, brackish and freshwater ecosystems. Biomarkers may indicate health status and can be applied to organisms of all zoological phyla by destructive or non destructive methods. For 5 years we have been using this approach in zooplankton to detect ecotoxicological alterations at low levels of the food chain due to contaminants. Here we review our approach to validate and apply biomarker techniques in zooplankton. We discuss advantages, limitations, some results and future research. We indicate that biomarkers in zooplankton can be used as new indices of trophic status and ecological integrity of Italian marine coastal and lagoon environments, to be included among the tools specified by Italian law D.Lgs. 152/2006.     

Restorating marine coastal ecosystem health as a new goad for integrated catchment management in Tolo Harbour,Hong Kong,China

The paper demonstrates why it is necessary to take the restoration of marine coastal ecosystem health as a new goal for integrated catchment management, in coastal area of the Tolo Harbour. The present goal of integrated catchment management (ICM) in the Tolo Harbour is to meet with Water Quality Objectives. The performance of an ICM plan, Tolo Harbour Action Plan (THAP), is evaluated by using marine coastal ecosystem health indicators including stress indicators and responses indicators. Since the implementation of THAP in 1988, some significant reduction in pollution loading has been observed - reduction of 83 % of BOD load and 82 % of TN between 1988 and 1999. There has been an improvement in the health state of Tolo Harbour marine coastal ecosystem as evidenced in the trends of the physical, chemical and biological indicators, although some reverse fluctuations in some periods exist. However, this can only be considered as the first sign of the ecosystem health restoration, since ecosystem health co     

上海工业街坊噪声对职工健康影响的研究和对策

作者对上海工业街坊固定源和流动源噪声进行了调查和测试,取得了大量的数据,找出了工业街坊中主要噪声源和噪声级的变化范围,提出了大城市工业区域噪声评价的方法并进行评价,得出各工业街坊噪声污染指数与评价等级。文章将处于此噪声等级下的职业工人和居民的职业病与人体健康状况,进行了特异性损伤与非特异性损伤的分析,并重点研究了纺织业等工业噪声对职工健康的影响。文章最后就工业街坊噪声污染治理对策,提出了合理工业布局和建立低噪声工业街坊的必要性。     

Arthropod community organization and development in pear

Arthropod communities in pear are conceptualized as hierarchically organized systems in which several levels of organization or subsystems can be recognized between the population level and the community as a whole. An individual pear tree is taken to be the community habitat with arthropod subcommunities developing on leaf, fruit, and wood subcommunity habitats. Each subcommunity is composed of trophically organized systems of populations. Each system of populations is comprised of a functional group or guild of phytophagous arthropods that use the habitat primarily for feeding but also for overwintering or egg deposition, and associated groups of specialized predators, parasitoids, and hyperparasitoids. Several species move from one subcommunity to another during the course of community development and thus integrate community subsystems. Community development or change in organization through time is conceptualized as being jointly determined by the development of the habitat and the organization of the species pool. The influence of habitat development on community development within a species pool is emphasized in this research. Seasonal habitat development is expressed as change in the kinds and biomasses of developmental states of wood, leaf, and fruit subcommunity habitats. These changes are accompanied by changes in the kinds, biomasses, and distributions of associated community subsystems.     

石墨炉原子吸收光谱法测定水中的痕量钼

介绍了用石墨炉（无火焰）原子吸收光谱法直接测定饮用水、地表水及废水中痕量钼的原理、过程，讨论了实验条件的优化、线性范围的选择，并对检出限、精密度和准确度做出评估。对钼标准物质（编号GBW199041）进行测定，测定结果与标准值相吻合。该方法测定的线性范围为0．0047mg／L-0．1000mg／L，检测限为0．0001mg／L，相对标准差为0．8％～1．6％，回收率为101%～107%，具有线性范围宽，简单，快速，准确等特点，在饮用水、地表水及废水中痕量钼的检测中具有很好的适用性。     

二恶英的来源、危害及污染控制

二恶英不仅来源于苯酚类杀虫剂，消毒剂，而且来源于含氯化学工业品，通过呼吸系统和食物链富集进入人体，造成人体许多复杂疾病并引起环境激素问题，应从源头治理，加强二恶英的检测和食品安全管理，提高人们的自我防范意识。     

地下水中汞的形成及其与人群健康的关系

地下水中汞元素的形成，主要是含汞矿物岩土溶解作用的结果，但其含量一般很低。汞与人体关系密切，结肠癌、肺癌死亡率与土壤中汞含量呈正相关，胃癌死亡率则与汞元素含量呈负相关。地下水汞元素含量小于１μｇ／Ｌ时，不会对人体健康产生危害。