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Examples of previous projects


Petroleum industry

  • Environmental health risk assessment of a proposed petrol filling station
  • Technical background document for the assessment of toxicity and risks associated with environmental exposure to petrol contamination
  • Assessment of potential adverse health effects associated with a petrol pipeline leak in a residential area
  • Environmental health risk assessment of a petrol spill
  • Updated environmental health risk assessment for a petrol additive

Waste sites

  • Review of tender documents for waste engineers
  • Risk assessment of borehole water use at landfill sites
  • Human health- and ecological impact based-investigations for the development and permitting of waste disposal facilities for the metallurgical industry

Substances in the environment

  • Dioxin data interpretation, for vegetation, soil, sediments, industrial effluent, process streams and stack emissions
  • Environmental impact assessment for dioxins, furans and PCBs
  • Health risk assessment for inorganic compounds in vlei sediments
  • Identification of sources of contamination on an industrial site
  • Health risk assessments for organic and inorganic contaminants on industrial sites
  • Toxicological background documents for health risk-based drinking water guidelines
  • Toxicological background documents for water quality guidelines based on ecological considerations
  • Risk assessment for exposure to hexavalent chromium in groundwater
  • Soil screening guidelines for lindane, endosulfan and captan
  • Review of ISCOR Master Plan: Risk Assessment
  • Health and environmental risk-based screening guidelines for an abandoned fertiliser plant
  • Health risk assessment for an abandoned fertiliser plant
  • Development of questions-and-answers documents pertaining to industrial contamination
  • Review of report on alleged mercury contamination in the environment
  • Literature review on health effects associated with chronic exposure to low ambient air concentrations of carbon monoxide
  • Environmental health risk assessment for proposed industrial plants
  • Health risks associated with the use and misuse of consumer products
  • Health risks associated with the presence of Sudan dyes in foodstuffs
  • Assessment of residential exposure to Chlorpyriphos
  • Assessment of the community health burden potentially attributable to criteria air pollutants emitted by power stations and other major industries
  • Baseline health study in rural communities in a South African neighbouring country

Research

  • Diesel particulate emissions in the South African mining industry
  • Compilation of manual for diesel engine maintenance and best practices in the South African mining industry
  • Investigation of Crystalline Phases in Silica Fume
  • Epidemiological study in the mineral processing industry

Occupational

  • Thermodynamic modelling and environmental risk assessment of combustion products from screening smokes for use in the military
  • Literature review on health effects associated with occupational exposure to cellulose dust and fibres
  • Interactive CD-format database on health hazards in the mineral processing industry
  • Regulatory issues
  • Technical background document for the development of a national ambient air quality guideline for lead
  • Technical background document for the development of a national ambient air quality guideline for sulphur dioxide

 

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