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Environmental Regulators or Epa
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS IN A MANUFACTURING FACILITY
Oil spills are often and always dangerous to the surrounding environment. Oil spills should always be treated with care since they are bound to make travels for a long distance from the point of the spill. This situation is dangerous when no action is taken bearing in mind that water is a primary resource for human living. Actions should be taken with an immediate effect. The surrounding environment has a possibility of the infiltration of oil into the water reservoirs just near the spillage point. There is also the possibility of a surface runoff in the case that there are rains within the area. Many living organisms will be affected by the spill. One is the life of the plants within that area. In the case the spill spreads to any region, it will affect the natural situation of the environment. This will have direct and indirect effects on the living organisms with plants being mostly affected. Human beings are going to be affected in different ways. The flow of oil to the nearby plantations could be dangerous to the surrounding natural habitat that provides food materials to human beings and animals. Pollution...
Thus, action should be taken to prevent the occurrence of all these actions, short-term and long-term (Mensah et al. 2007).
The State environmental regulators or EPA should become involved with this spill situation. This is a situation of local concern, and its effects could be far-reaching. The state environment should send representatives to ensure that the measures adopted are considerate of the need to have a safety measure taken to action for the sake of offering protection for the short-term and long-term effects of the spill. This is the function of this arm of the government (The United States, 1997). The effects of the spill could be far-reaching in that no one knows when the effects are to be felt. This means that the health and non-health safety measures to be undertaken must be universal. Experts in the field, as housed by the state environment regulators or EPA must give directions to be followed to remedy the situation.
The manufacturing facility is the one that is under serious threat from this spill. It should take immediate actions because…
References
Mensah, T. A., Ndiaye, T. M., Wolfrum, R., & Kojima, C. (2007). Law Of The Sea, Environmental Law, And Settlement Of Disputes: Liber Amicorum Judge Thomas A. Mensah. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff.
The United States. (1997). Oil spill prevention measures: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, October 30, 1997. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.
283). This led to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). This Act acknowledged the fact that there was a lack of knowledge about the ocean ecosystem. This was an important insight and "At its core, NEPA requires federal agencies to produce an environmental impact statement (EIS) whenever they propose a major federal action" but " it was unclear from the original language of the statute whether the
NEBOSH Unit D According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the cost of workplace injuries and disease is in excess of $20 billion dollars per year. Obviously, these figures are alarming and would suggest that Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) should be a top priority for management. However, a survey from 2011 revealed that many companies have no written OHS policy and nearly half have no formalized occupational health and