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.
World's Largest Non-Polar Desert. The Sahara Desert is the largest non-polar Desert in the world. It's length spans 3000 miles across northern Africa-from the Atlantic ocean in the west to the Red Sea on the east.It's width spans from the Mediterranean Sea on the north and extends 1200 miles to the south to central Africa.he Sahara Desert is Earth's largest non-polar desert. Tour the Sahara using the Google map below. Click on the red icons to learn more about some of the volcanoes, irrigation, meteor impacts, sand dunes, shrinking lakes and mountains of the Sahara Desert. Use the navigation buttons to zoom and move about.