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7.15.4 Impact Description and Significance: Summary
Table 7.27 provides a summary of the significant impacts likely to arise during
construction, operation and decommissioning prior to the implementation of
mitigation measures (see Chapter 8).
Table 7.27
Summary of Impact Significance Pre-mitigation
Phase Impact Significance (premitigation)
Construction
Psychological impacts related to changes in
culture, unmet expectations, noise and dust
nuisance, physical health and STIs and safety
risks, improvements to electricity supply,
health care facilities and water resources.
Moderate Negative &
Minor Positive
Operation
Psychological impacts related to unmet
expectations, noise and dust nuisance,
physical health and STIs, safety risks and
contamination risks, improvements to
electricity supply, health care facilities and
water resources.
Minor Negative & Minor
Positive
Decommissioning Ongoing effects from the operational phase,
safety risks and noise and dust nuisance.
Moderate Negative
7.16 WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
7.16.1 Impact Description and Significance: Construction
Impact Description
Activities related to excavation, facility construction, heavy vehicle traffic on
site and potential additional habitats for mosquito-breeding will pose risks to
the health and safety (H&S) of employees. The following negative health
impacts have been identified during the construction phase of the Project:
• Physical health impacts due to noise and dust pollution on site;
• Impacts to the physical health of employees due to infectious disease and
vector and/or water-borne diseases such as malaria. During construction
there will be an increased numbers of people, and in the cases that
transmission is a function of direct contacts the prevalence will increase
with group size; and
• Physical H&S impacts resulting from any accidents occurring on and
around site including trips, falls, operation of machinery, movement of
plant on site and electrical incidents associated with the laying of the
transmission line.
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