Category: Environmental-Studies

  • Audit of Safety Management Systems

    Environmental Studies A Safety Management System is an essential component of any productive firm. A corporation’s SMS, often known as its “safety program,” is a documented scheme that includes a documented institutional framework, safety standards, protocols, and responsibility for all personnel within the firm. This approach should be designed with full participation and approval from…

  • Fundamentals of Safety Design

    Introduction It is important to implement occupational safety measures in order to ensure efficiency at work and reduce costs that may be incurred as a result of occupational injuries at work. It is essential for organizations to think about the safety of the structure or the equipment used. To achieve this, it should consider reviewing…

  • Ways of recycling or reusing adisposable item of daily use.

    Plastic grocery bags Plastic grocery bags, also known as carrier or plastic shopping bags, are made of various plastic materials and are used as shopping bags. Plastic grocery bags were introduced in U.S stores in 1977. The Environmental protection agency in 2018 estimated that 4.2 million tons of carrier bags were reproduced yearly in the…

  • Environmental Technology

    Environmental Technology The United States Environmental Protection Agency developed the Environmental Technology Verification Program in order to assist in prevention of pollution. Ashley and the team started focusing on the parameters of the program in 2005.The goal was to get rid of pollutants from human life and environment. This was to be achieved through a…

  • Return on Investment

    Introduction In today’s society, firms are facing efficiency and productivity problem due to increasing international pressure. To counter business challenges, organizations set to increase the productivity of their production factors, primarily the human capital. This is critical because the human factor in the business is considered the most critical factor for creating wealth and overall…

  • Chain of Dependency: Bees

    Bees Ideally, bees are responsible for pollinating a significant percentage of commercially grown food globally. This means that bees are vital for sustaining the green natural environment that provides sustainability to humans. Natural environment Essentially, bees can thrive in the domesticated or natural environment. However, bees tend to thrive properly in natural spaces such as…

  • Characteristics of hazardous waste

    Disposed substances that can cause harm to not only people but also the surrounding environment are known as hazardous wastes.  The expansion in cities, industries and the increase in the population is the primary cause of the accelerated production of these hazardous wastes. Governments of both developed, developing and underdeveloped countries in recent years have…

  • Environmental Studies

    Part 1 Groundwater contamination arises when contaminants are released into the earth and into natural subterranean groundwater sources called aquifers. Contaminants introduced into the environment end up contaminating groundwater. However, there are some measures put in place to mitigate the pollution of groundwater. One of the measures to reduce groundwater pollution is recycling. The idea…

  • Freak Weather

    In the recent past, there has many cases of freak weather. There have been many publications by scientists looking at extreme weather changes around the world such as hurricanes in the Caribbean. Hurricanes occur in tropical waters. It is a storm that is called tropical cyclone. Hurricane Maria formed in 2017 in Puerto Rico (National…

  • The Journey to Sustainability

    The Journey to Sustainability Describe how the human relationship to nature will be different from what it is at present. Examine how humans will cope differently with the ways that natural phenomena like hurricanes affect lives. Nature encompasses the total physical universe. It is what exists in the absence of any man intervention. Man or…