Occupational and Environmental Health Effects of Informal Electronic Waste Recycling - A Focus on Agbogbloshie, Ghana

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• Journal Article:
  Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021), June 13-18, 2021, virtual event. Volume IV: healthcare and healthy work. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, volume 222
• Personal Author:
  Abotsi, Priscillah ; Acquah, Augustine A. ; Arko-Mensah, John ; D’Souza, Clive ; Fobil, Julius N. ; Martin, Bernard J.
• Description:
  The unregulated and unorganized structure of informal electronic waste recycling worksites exposes workers to numerous occupational hazards. This context also presents research challenges in collecting exposure data to establish linkages with adverse health effects and development of risk-mitigating strategies. This paper presents some findings from a 5-year multinational and multi-institutional collaboration of academic and government partners, which documented extensive occupational and environmental health conditions at the Agbogbloshie electronic waste site in central Accra, Ghana. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Electrical Equipment And Supplies Electronic Waste Ergonomics Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Recycling Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Agbogbloshie; Electronic Waste; Ergonomics; Occupational Health Ergonomics; Electronic Equipment; Recycling; Waste Disposal; Occupational Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Impacts; Exposure Assessment;
• Source:
  Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021), June 13-18, 2021, virtual event. Volume IV: healthcare and healthy work. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, volume 222. Black NL, Neumann WP, Noy I eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021 May; 222:746-752
• ISBN:
  9783030746100
• ISSN:
  2367-3370
• Pubmed ID:
  34263269
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8277146
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  T42 OH008455/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 TW010103/TW/FIC NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U2R TW010110/TW/FIC NIH HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• Volume:
  222
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064871
• Contact Point Address:
  Julius Fobil, Department of Biological Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG13, Legon, Accra, Ghana
• Email:
  jfobil@ug.edu.gh
• Editor(s):
  Black NL; Neumann WP; Noy I
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c28c0c74dd2bff16ef43abcf6d7578a19dcb89da73b5c716c58c989fcf475544bcbc9adcbca574e34c447f58c7dadc6ae21a99a876b6f5741bd1433bac7f0e1d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113861/cdc_113861_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 50.44 KB ]