{"id":4505,"date":"2023-03-27T06:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jphres.org\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2023-04-02T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:18:12","slug":"exposure-risk-assessment-of-the-municipal-waste-collection-activities-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item doi\"><span class=\"value\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2020.1994\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2020.1994<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"item authors\">\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Loganathan Salvaraji<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1160-5243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1160-5243<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Mohammad Saffree Jeffree<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0373-4451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0373-4451<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Richard Avoi<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1957-0965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1957-0965<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Azam Atil<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0850-7992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0850-7992<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Hazalina Mohd AKhir<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4932-436X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4932-436X<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Shamsul Bahari Shamsudin<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9096-2312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9096-2312<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Khamisah Awang Lukman<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Malaysia.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4840-2925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4840-2925<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"item abstract\">\n<h3 class=\"label\">ABSTRACT<\/h3>\n<p>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\u2019s requirements, biological agents continue to be risk factor to the health workers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"label\">AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sub_item\">\n<div class=\"label\">Azam Atil,\u00a0<span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">\n<p>Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical\u00a0Centre, Kuala Lumpur<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sub_item\">\n<div class=\"label\">Khamisah Awang Lukman,\u00a0<span class=\"affiliation\">Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">\n<p>Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu,\u00a0Sabah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2020.1994 Loganathan Salvaraji Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1160-5243 Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Malaysia.https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0373-4451 Richard Avoi Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health &#8230; <a title=\"Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/1994\/\" aria-label=\"More on Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4505","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic - Journal of Public Health Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/1994\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exposure risk assessment of the municipal waste collection activities during COVID-19 pandemic - Journal of Public Health Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2020.1994 Loganathan Salvaraji Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1160-5243 Mohammad Saffree Jeffree Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Malaysia.https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0373-4451 Richard Avoi Community and Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health ... 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