Being Conscious of Hazardous Substances That May Occur In Our Environment

Human beings are Creative, Skillful, Innovative and Knowledgeable in making living very easy by invention of technological devices that can solve our sophisticated problems. But, with little carelessness, these devices and substances we've invented may be injurious to our lives and health status. We are bound to make mistakes and be trapped with some of these things we've brought to universe. One of these things I want us to be aware and be conscious of it is "Hazard"

Meaning of Hazard

Hazard is incidence relating substances, actions or activities that is harmful or injurious to our body or life and may cause accident.

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Hazards can be classified in so many ways, depending on the places that hazards occur. I would want us to look the few hazards that occur at the following classification.

Hazards at Home

Hazards may occur at home in so many ways. Due to technological advancement, most homes use electric cooker, heater and electric iron. Instead of using manual way, we want our activities to be very fast. In the cause of cooking food using the electric cooker, we sometimes forget to put the electric after the food is well cooked and this can result in a dangerous fire outbreaks which is an example of Hazard. We also use heater for heating our water at our various homes.

Most people would use plastic buckets which are highly flammable to fire. They plug the electric heater in the water and mistakingly leave it to do other things. Before they realize, the water might have overheated and caught fire.

We normally plug electric iron and leave it for work or school forgetting that the electric switch is on. Before we come back home, the iron might have heated and caught fire.

In homes, hazards may occur when one is chopping onion with knife. The knife may cut the person's fingers. Slippery floors or tiles in living room and bathrooms may be a threat to the children in the house.

Hazards in school

Hazards in school occur in many ways. Science students working in laboratory maybe injured with working on broken glasses.

Students may mistakenly drink hazardous substances like chemical thinking that it's Water.

A cutlass may cut a student leg in the cause of grounds work. In the cause of fight with other student, one of the students may be hurt.

Hazards At work places

The obvious work places that mostly experience frequent hazards are construction site, mining site, quarry sites. The stones are rocks may hit workers head unknowingly and cause death or broken legs or cut of part of the body. At the mining sites, the dynamite may explode and cause accident or death of people around.

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Safety precautions against hazards

Most of the Hazards which take place are from our negligence even though there are natural hazards like outbreaks of fire caused by lightening in the forest or excessive. But we can avoid certain accidents if we are much careful with things that we do.

We should make sure to put off all light switch before leaving for work. If possible, electric cookers should be monitored closely when cooking before we leave for work. Electric iron switch should be put off as soon as we finish pressing on our clothes to avoid increasing of power that could cause fire. Water poured on tiles or floor should be mopped immediately to prevent children slipping.

As Science students, we should receive instructions from our Science Technicians before touching any chemicals in the laboratory. We should drink or taste any substances in the laboratory. All broken glasses should be discarded from the laboratory.

At work places like mining site, construction sites and quarry sites; all workers should wear protective clothes like overall on their body and helmet to prevent them from hard materials hitting their bodies. Wear hand grooves, nose mask, eye protective materials from damages that may cause to your sensitive parts.

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