Volume 17 [2015]

The integrated hospital solid waste management emphasizes the need to conduct a survey based on a standardized method that equally be analyzed at national level. This study aimed to test the usability of a national tool to do integration data analysis of hospital waste management status. Then, a typical study was conducted in Karaj hospitals. Also, critical analysis of hospital’s solid waste management aspects was done, and shortcomings in the aspects were identified. The pilot study results showed that the daily per capita waste generations were reported to be 4.2±0.49 kg/available bed, 5.8±0.63 kg/occupied bed, and 10.3±0.9 kg/inpatient. The names of the hospitals were omitted when they were named from H₁ to H₈. So the highest and lowest daily waste generation rate were 5.5±0.35 and 2.6±0.78 kg/available bed in H₇ and H₃ hospitals, respectively. In this study, total infectious wastes per capita were reported to be 2.3±0.39 kg/available bed/day, 3±0.5 kg/occupied bed/day and 5.2±0.84 kg/inpatient/day. Furthermore, the averages per capita of total general waste were 2±0.4 kg/available bed/day, 2.8±0.51 kg/occupied bed/day and 5.1±0.8 kg/inpatient/day. Analysis of the Karaj hospital waste management status showed statue of hospital waste management in 88% of hospitals were ranked moderate when others were achieved to be poor by 12%. The hospital waste management had been evaluated poor in term of collection, transportation and manpower aspects, moderate in the separation and temporary storage aspects and good in the disposal aspect. It was also found that the MOHME tool is appropriate tool to investigate the status of waste management in hospitals.

Dust pollution is a major problem in opencast mines. Many activities are associated with generation of dust that makes a cloud of pollutant at the work environment and the surrounding areas. Activities as drilling, blasting, transportation, surface miner etc. are the principle sources of generation of dust in mines. This paper focuses on the monitoring of dust level at different operational areas of the mine, characterization of dust collected from different sources, personal exposure of dust and finally prediction of dust concentration at different locations of the mine and nearby areas using AERMOD software. The study was conducted at Lakhanpur opencast mine of MCL (Mahanadi Coalfields Limited), a subsidiary body of CIL (Coal India Limited) the largest coal producing company of the world. The study was done in the month of December 2013, using DustTrakII at nine different locations in the mine. The quartz content of dust was determined using FTIR analysis. Personal Dust Sampler (PDS) was used to determine the personal dust exposure value for different workers. Dust dispersion modelling was done by using AERMOD and isopleths were plotted.

This study aims to measure citizens’ behavior intention (BI) in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) participation. An extended theory of planned behavior (TPB), which includes perceived government support and perceived environmental concern, is used as the predictor model. A total of 240 questionnaire data, gathered from citizens of Indonesia, was analyzed by using structural equation modeling. The analysis result shows that the TPB model revealed 60 percent of citizens’ BI in EIA participation. Another finding revealed perceived behavior control as a key determinant factor. Practical recommendations suggested based on the result can be used as references by EIA policy makers and practitioners to increase citizens’ intention in EIA participation.