Meat processing facilities are known to pose significant threats to worker safety. In a 2005 report, the Government Accountability Office described the threats to meat and poultry industry workers, who deal with âhazardous conditions involving loud noise, sharp tools, and dangerous machinery.
The Sahara is the worldâs largest hot desert and one of the harshest environments on the planet. It is third largest desert overall after Antarctica and the Arctic, which are cold deserts.At 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara, which is Arabic for The Great Desert, engulfs most of North Africa.The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.he Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the western edge, the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Red Sea on the east, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south.
The Sahel region, which borders the Sahara, is not a true desert but may become one as the Sahara advances southward. Arid lands on the edge of the Sahara in the Horn of Africa, such as the Ogaden Desert, consume portions of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and the Sudan. Egypt's Nubian Desert and Ethiopia's Danakil Desert are also arid environments that might soon become Africa's next big desert. National Geographic: Desert Profile.