Environmental/Occupational Paper 2

In this assignment, you will be a health and safety manager of ExxonMobile that has an oil and gas manufacturing facility in Texas.

This paper will address chemical hazards in the workplace:

1. Identify two hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed in your facility.

- Benzene

- Hydrofluoric acid (HF)

1. Explain the routes by which workers can get exposure to these chemicals and the associated potential health risks.


2. Choose one method to sample for each of these chemicals in the facility. Justify your choice.


3. Consider how the hazards may be controlled and select the best approach, the one that protects workers best.

Assignment Expectations

Length: The SLP assignment should be 3-4 pages, APA format, scholarly sources required, use subheadings. (Please use 1 or 2 resources below)

Scholarly resources:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017). Workplace safety & health topics: Chemicals. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/chemical.html

Levy, B. S., Wegman, D. H., Baron, S. L., & Sokas, R. K. (Eds.) (2011). Section I.2: Recognizing and preventing occupational and environmental disease and injury. In Occupational and environmental health: Recognizing and preventing disease and injury (6th ed., pp. 23-54). New York: Oxford University Press.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/oilgaswelldrilling/safetyhazards.html

Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Industrial hygiene. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/dte/library/industrial_hygiene/industrial_hygiene.html

Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Sampling and analysis. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/samplinganalysis/

Benzene resource:

CDC. (2018, April 04). Retrieved from https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp

Hydrofluoric acid resource:

Denney, B. (2012). Hydrofluoric acid: What you need to know. EMSWorld.Com, Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.trident.edu/docview/1465623207?accountid=28844

Information source only:

Beans, L. (2017, September 18). 10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production. Retrieved from https://www.ecowatch.com/10-most-toxic-ingredients-used-in-coal-oil-and-gas-production-1881837429.html

How Oil Workers Are Exposed to Benzene. (2019, November 19). Retrieved from https://www.steventituslaw.com/blog/benzene-exposure-to-oil-field-workers/

Buhl 10.10.2018, L., Varanasi 06.03.2020, A., & Chesler 03.25.2019, C. (2019, September 30). Should Oil Refiners Be Using Hydrofluoric Acid? Retrieved from https://undark.org/2018/10/10/hydrofluoric-acid-oil-refining-explosion/