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• Inside todays world safety is the most required
  attribute for a hazard.
• For a hazard to be prevented, safety is the
  important concept. And it is only the major worry
  that looms around everyone.Health worries are
  the major factor in todays world. And the
  hazards associated with it are called as the
  health hazards.
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• So, WHAT is health???
• Health is a state of good physical condition,
  well being and being free from illness or
  disease. If someone has all these features, he is
  said to be healthy.
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• and WHAT is hazard???
• Hazard is a risk or a danger of happening
  something. There is a chance or probability that
  it will partially or completely damage the
  system.

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Classification Of Hazards

• Classification of Hazards into 2 types Physical
  and Health.
• Physical Hazards are the hazards based on the
  property that an object bears owing to its
  existence.
• Health Hazards are the disease causing or the
  hazards deteriorating the health of a person.
• Classification of Health Hazards as
• Acute toxicity
• Skin corrosion/irritation
• Serious eye damage/eye irritation
• Respiratory or skin sensitization
• Germ cell mutagenicity
• Carcinogenicity
• Reproductive toxicity
• Specific target organ toxicity single exposure
• Specific target organ toxicity repeated
  exposure
• Aspiration hazard
• Biohazardous infectious materials

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Environmental Health

• Health of the complete environment is
  important.As it comprises of the human
  beings,plants, animals and the most important is
  the nature around us.Environmental Health
  consists of the factors that can harm human
  health and how to identify, prevent and control
  such effects.CDC(Centre for Disease Control and
  Prevention)s National Centre for Environmental
  Health(NCEH) monitors, directs and plans for a
  program for improving the health of the american
  people.
• The Healthy People 2020 Environmental Health
  primarily focusses on 6 themes
• Outdoor Air Quality
• Surface and Ground Water Quality
• Toxic substances and hazardous wastes
• Homes and Communities
• Infrastructure and Surveillance
• Global Environmental Health
• A few diseases associated with environmental
  health are
• Asthma
• Autism
• Breast Cancer
• Cancer
• Lung Disease
• Lupus
• Obesity
• Parkinsons Disease
• Reproductive Health
• These diseases have been given by the
  NIH(National Institute for Environmental Health
  Sciences)

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Environmental Pollution

• Environmental Pollution as we know today, is what
  that existed for centuries, but became prominent
  and significant only following the industrial
  revolution in 19th century.It is it that brought
  introduction of oil and its usage through various
  processes.
• Environmental Pollution occurs when nature does
  not know how to decompose some substances and
  they remain in our environment.
• Such pollution is called Environmental Pollution.
• Environmental Pollution occurs both in the
  developed and the developing nations across the
  countries.
• Based on its types The Environmental Pollution
  is classified as
• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Land Pollution
• There can be several effects of the dying
  environment on humans, animals and the plants.
• Cholorofluoro Carbons (CFCs) released from using
  ACs, refrigrators, deodrants also cause
  environmental pollution as they deplete the ozone
  layer.
• The ozone layer protects us from the harmful
  radiations from the sun that are ultraviolet
  radiations , thus preventing environmental
  pollution.
• So it can be seen here that environmental
  pollution is a global issue and that needs to be
  tackled wisely.
• Proper awareness and education is lacking in
  several regions especially in the developing
  nations where the problems are rising day by day.
  But the developed nations are also not far behind
  as their eminssions are greater and their share
  is more as far as the harm to the environment is
  concerned.
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