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Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic

An increasing amount of waste concurrently further extends the risk of exposure to hazardous material among waste collectors. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, municipal waste collectors are one of the most at-risk groups of SARS-Cov-2 exposure. Risk assessment included hazard identification, evaluat...

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Main Authors:	Loganathan Salvaraji, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil @ Azmi, Hazalina Mohd AKhir, Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin, Khamisah Awang Lukman
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Published:	PagePress Publications 2020
Online Access:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/1/Exposure%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20municipal%20waste%20collection%20activities%20during%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20ABSTRACT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/3/Exposure%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20municipal%20waste%20collection%20activities%20during%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/ https://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/1994/689 https://doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2020.1994
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spelling	my.ums.eprints.299862021-07-21T01:42:26Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/ Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic Loganathan Salvaraji Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Richard Avoi Azman Atil @ Azmi Hazalina Mohd AKhir Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin Khamisah Awang Lukman An increasing amount of waste concurrently further extends the risk of exposure to hazardous material among waste collectors. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, municipal waste collectors are one of the most at-risk groups of SARS-Cov-2 exposure. Risk assessment included hazard identification, evaluation of existing control level at the workplace, estimation of likelihood and severity of hazard, risk determination, and control measure recommendations. Five waste collection activities were identified and reviewed. High-risk exposure includes collection of garbage, mechanical manipulation of compactor lorries and unloading of garbage at the disposal site. There is poor practice of personal hygiene and unestablished continuous monitoring of personal protective equipment supplies. The preventive measures in the waste collection industry are influenced by several factors. Until the preventive measures are adopted into practice and adapted according to each company’s requirements, biological agents continue to be risk factor to the health workers PagePress Publications 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/1/Exposure%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20municipal%20waste%20collection%20activities%20during%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/3/Exposure%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20municipal%20waste%20collection%20activities%20during%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf Loganathan Salvaraji and Mohammad Saffree Jeffree and Richard Avoi and Azman Atil @ Azmi and Hazalina Mohd AKhir and Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin and Khamisah Awang Lukman (2020) Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Public Health Research, 9 (4). pp. 484-489. ISSN 2279-9028 (P-ISSN) , 2279-9036 (E-ISSN) https://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/1994/689 https://doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2020.1994
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description	An increasing amount of waste concurrently further extends the risk of exposure to hazardous material among waste collectors. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, municipal waste collectors are one of the most at-risk groups of SARS-Cov-2 exposure. Risk assessment included hazard identification, evaluation of existing control level at the workplace, estimation of likelihood and severity of hazard, risk determination, and control measure recommendations. Five waste collection activities were identified and reviewed. High-risk exposure includes collection of garbage, mechanical manipulation of compactor lorries and unloading of garbage at the disposal site. There is poor practice of personal hygiene and unestablished continuous monitoring of personal protective equipment supplies. The preventive measures in the waste collection industry are influenced by several factors. Until the preventive measures are adopted into practice and adapted according to each company’s requirements, biological agents continue to be risk factor to the health workers
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author	Loganathan Salvaraji Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Richard Avoi Azman Atil @ Azmi Hazalina Mohd AKhir Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin Khamisah Awang Lukman
spellingShingle	Loganathan Salvaraji Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Richard Avoi Azman Atil @ Azmi Hazalina Mohd AKhir Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin Khamisah Awang Lukman Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic
author_facet	Loganathan Salvaraji Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Richard Avoi Azman Atil @ Azmi Hazalina Mohd AKhir Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin Khamisah Awang Lukman
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title	Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic
title_short	Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full	Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr	Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed	Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort	exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during covid-19 pandemic
publisher	PagePress Publications
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url	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/1/Exposure%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20municipal%20waste%20collection%20activities%20during%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20ABSTRACT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/3/Exposure%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20municipal%20waste%20collection%20activities%20during%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29986/ https://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/1994/689 https://doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2020.1994
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Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic

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