1. What is industrial chemical safety?
Today, chemicals appear very popular, diverse in production of all industries. There are many different types of chemicals, which have potential hazards and are always present during use and storage. So how to keep the employees' own health is a necessary issue.
Chemical safety is the practice of using occupational chemicals in a way that ensures the safety and health of people, and prevents damage to the environment. Chemical safety encompasses all aspects of chemical use, including the production, transportation and handling of chemicals.
Industrial chemical safety is the application of the most effective treatment of chemicals and chemical processes to minimize risks to people, facilities and communities. This involves knowledge of physical chemicals, chemistry, and toxicity of chemicals.
2. What are industrial toxins?
Industrial toxins are chemicals used in production, when entering the body even a very small amount can cause great harm to health.
Chemical toxicity when exceeding the allowable limit, the body's resistance is weak, which will be the risk of disease. Diseases caused by industrial toxins in production are called occupational poisoning.
Hazardous industrial chemicals include the following types:
- Explosives: Industrial explosives and substances
- Flammable gas, non-flammable gas, non-toxic and toxic gas
- Flammable liquids and desensitizing liquid explosives
- Flammable solid chemicals: Self-reactive substances and desensitizing solid explosives, spontaneous flammable substances, chemicals emitting flammable gas when encountering water.
Oxidizing chemicals: organic oxide compounds
- Toxic substances, infectious substances
- Radioactive substances
- Corrosive substances
- Other dangerous chemicals
3. Risks occurring in industrial chemical use and storage
There are many potential risks associated with using and storing industrial chemicals. These hazards are divided into two types of hazards involving hazardous chemicals that can cause immediate or permanent injury or illness to an infected person.
3.1 Health hazards
These are the dangers that directly or indirectly affect the health of the person exposed to them directly or indirectly.
This exposure usually occurs by inhalation, ingestion, or skin contact. May cause acute or long-term harm to the infected person themselves.
- Acute harm: Headache, nausea, vomiting, skin corrosion.
- Long-term effects: Asthma, dermatitis, nerve damage, or cancer.
3.2. Physical and chemical hazards
These are negative effects for the worker and are not a health risk. They do not happen as a result of the chemical's biological interactions with humans.
Physical and chemical hazards occur through improper handling or use of chemicals, resulting in personal injury and property damage. These effects have a focus on toxicity and health risks.
Typical of chemical and physical hazards include chemicals that are flammable, corrosive, oxidizing, or chemically reactive.
4. The harmful effects of toxic chemicals in industry
Many industrial chemicals are highly toxic to humans. Industrial chemicals enter the body through the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract or through the skin. The time toxic chemicals take effect depends on the path of infection. Most poisonings occur faster when exposed to chemicals through the respiratory tract.
- Industrial chemicals have weak toxicity, concentrations below the permitted level, a healthy body will not affect health.
- Industrial chemicals with acceptable concentrations, healthy body, long term exposure can also lead to poisoning.
- Industrial chemicals have a strong toxicity, exceeding permissible levels, a healthy body, short exposure time will cause acute poisoning, otherwise timely emergency can lead to death.
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5. Degree of danger when working with chemicals
There is a risk of acute or chronic poisoning when directly or indirectly in contact with chemicals during production, storage and transportation. Especially when not using protective gear, unsafety will cause serious consequences for the workers themselves.
Poisons penetrate and accumulate in the body, after a while, the amount of such toxins exceeds the body's ability to be eliminated. That is when these toxins manifest into diseases that adversely affect the body.
There are many highly toxic poisons which, after contact with family, eyes or inhalation, can cause serious effects immediately.
To limit and prevent the adverse effects of harmful industrial chemicals on the body, workers need to comply closely