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.
0 Votes. Well to begin with, the Sahara is the largest desert in the world (outside of the poles). It stretches over a vast part of northern African practically splitting the continent in half. Although it is a very hot and dry placeâreceiving less than 3 inches of rain a yearâit is speckled with oases. Votes. The Sahara is one of the largest deserts in the world and occupies almost 10% of the African continent. Almost all of the Sahara receives little rainfall, thus it is very hard for many species of plant and animal to survive there. The soil is mostly rock and sand, with some vegetation.