Occupational Health Risk Assessment for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Kanpur, India
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 15463530 |
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| Autores | Folake Monsurat Babalola (0009-0001-3787-2756, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), Lena Breitenmoser (0000-0002-7024-6124, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Claire Furlong (0000-0002-6961-5340, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), Paul Campling (0000-0002-8745-4376, Flemish Institute for Technological Research), Christine M Hooijmans (0000-0001-7971-3027, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Fascículo | 12 |
| Páginas | 6072-6072 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-06-07 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Editora | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph20126072 |
| PMID | 37372659 |
| OpenAlex | W4379799498 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 23 |
The treatment and reuse of wastewater for irrigation can lead to occupational health risks for sewage treatment plant (STP) workers and farmers. Sanitation Safety Planning (SSP) is an approach which can be used to measure and mitigate these risks. This paper explores what impact a novel secondary treatment process, consisting of an integrated permeate channel (IPC) membrane combined with a constructed wetland plus, has on the occupational health risks compared with the existing activated sludge wastewater treatment process and reuse system in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. A mixed methodology was used, which included key informant interviews, structured observations, and E. coli analysis. This data was used to undertake semi-quantitative risk assessments following the SSP approach. The novel secondary treatment increased the number of health risks which the STP workers were exposed to, but the severity of the risks was lower. This was due to the differences in treatment processes and infrastructures. The number of health risks for the farmers decreased both in number and severity. For their children, the severity of the health impacts decreased. These changes were due to the increase in the microbiological quality of the irrigation water. This study highlights the potential of using a semi-quantitative risk assessment to assess the occupational health impacts of using novel treatment technologies
Business · Computer security · Environmental health · Health risk · Health risk assessment · Irrigation · Occupational safety and health · Reuse · Risk assessment · Sanitation · Sewage treatment · Waste management · Wastewater · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management · Medicine · Wastewater Treatment and Reuse · Environmental Engineering
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