Workers Are Exposed To Cadmium

As the health and safety manager, I’ve identified that workers were exposed to cadmium and lead. Cadmium is a soft malleable transition metal. It is silvery bluish-white in color. Although toxic by nature, this chemical element is commonly used to create dry cell batteries. Like mercury, cadmium has the lowest melting point of groups three through eleven transition metals. Lead is a malleable soft heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. It bluish-white in color when freshly cut, and stains to dull gray in color when exposed to air (Markowitz & Rosner, 2013).
Toxic cadmium exposure commonly occurs in industrial workplaces. Workers are predominantly exposed to cadmium for the air in plants where batteries are made (García-Esquinas