For the 1st time in nearly two decades, Healthy Meals Inc. has seen a serious outbreak of occupational skin disease, including miliari among its workers. Industrial hygienist at the company are reviewing the situation and trying to determine the reasons for the sudden change. Healthy Meals Inc. has been in the food processing industry for more than 50 years and has over 200 employees. Recently the company hired younger workers with less experience, including several bakers and laboratory technicians, after some long time employees decided to retire. The company’s Florida location makes it attractive to workers of all ages, so it did not have any problem recruiting new staff. The location also allows Healthy Meals Inc. to benefit from the state’s agricultural resources. Inside the plant, equipment and other work surfaces are cleaned on a routine basis and there are plenty of worse basins available to workers. Given this information the team of industrial hygienist needs to explain to management why company workers are suffering from skin diseases. Primary questionsWhat is miliaria? Define and describeDefine and describe one other occupational contact dermatitis found in this industry or another industry.Are there predisposing factors involved with the employees?How does the overall incidence of skin disease in this industry compare to other industries?PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
- This assignment must be presented as a “Word” document in Times New Roman (12) font.
- Do not include a cover page! But an inserted header with the class number and student’s name is required.
- The paper margins will be 1” on all sides. Left justification will be used. Double spacing only is required to be used throughout the paper. Papers are to be written in 3rd person perspective.
- Each heading as noted above is to be used with the student’s response below it. The response is to be in a narrative form in the student’s own words. This is an exercise in which you are to read, digest and process information into your own words, not a cut and paste project.
- The primary source of information for this exercise is to be the course textbook. Secondary sources of information may be used as needed.
- After each question is answered the student will place directly after the question response the citations for the publications used to answer the question. This will include the publication name, page #, column #, and paragraph# or website address where the exact material can be found. At the end of the assignment a reference list will be placed providing the publication name, authors, edition, publication date and publisher for each source utilized. Websites used will be included on the reference list using APA format plus the date of access. This will done for all references used.
- Do not use the course Module powerpoints as references!
- Numbered and bullet lists nor similar approaches are to be used in the response to the question.
- The paper must be a minimum of 750 words and shall not exceed 1000 words. Penalties will apply for papers having less than 750 words or exceeding 1000 words. Reference material and the assignment questions are not part of the word total for the assignment.
- Assignments will be reviewed for spelling and grammar with deductions taken for up to 30% of the points.