Rationale
As a professional employed in the oil and gas sector of Trinidad, the research into the area of benzene exposure from various sources in natural gas processing has been in paucity. Indeed, in Europe and North America, there has been extensive research in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry illustrating the association of benzene exposure to producing, processing, refining, etc. of crude and natural gas (Capleton and Levy, 2005; Kirkeleit et al., 2006). However, such a drive for assessing this relationship has only recently been introduced to Trinidad and Tobago, and due to being in its initial stages of development, its research has not achieved significant momentum. As such, there may be instances currently where significant levels of benzene exposure remain undetected, and consequently, employees remain unprotected.
理论基础
作为一家专业从事石油和天然气部门的特立尼达，研究进入苯暴露在天然气处理中的各种来源已在缺乏。事实上，在欧洲和北美国，有广泛的研究上游和下游的石油和天然气工业，说明协会原油及天然气生产、加工、精制等苯接触（卡普莱顿和征收，2005；kirkeleit et al.，2006）。然而，这样的驱动评估这种关系最近才被介绍给特立尼达和多巴哥，由于处于发展的初级阶段，它的研究还没有实现显著动量。因此，有可能是目前的情况下，显着苯暴露水平未被发现，因此，员工仍保持未受保护的。
For instance, there are many companies which conduct services on natural gas facilities, including maintenance, repair and operations. However, the issue of benzene exposure may oftentimes be overlooked by these companies, for simpler and more straightforward health and safety issues related to trips, falls, fire and explosion and chemical spills. Thus, given that much literature exists to support that such employees are actually being exposed to benzene, it remains to be assessed in the local context.
例如，有许多公司在天然气设施上进行服务，包括维修、修理和操作。然而，苯暴露的问题可能常常被这些公司忽视了，简单的和更简单的健康和安全问题相关的旅行、瀑布、火灾爆炸和化学品泄漏。因此，鉴于大量的文献存在支持，这样的员工实际上是被暴露于苯，它仍然是在当地的情况下进行评估。
Moreover, from a research of the literature benzene has been found to be a known carcinogen, and even lethal at concentrations greater than the occupational exposure limit (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health –NIOSH 1994). Indeed, at this point it would prove impracticable and tedious to assess the health effects of persons who have been exposed to benzene over the past few decades, since there was no health surveillance programme geared towards benzene exposure. Consequently, this would mean that there may be cases of benzene-related health effects that went unrecognised, and affected person unaware to the deleterious effects of benzene expsoure being the causative agent. Thus, it would be in the best interest of an organization to protect its human resources –the health and well being of itsemployees – while at the same time complying with the legal requirements of Section 6(2) of the Trinidad and Tobago Occupational Safety and Health Act 2006 (as amended). Moreover, given the seriousness of these health effects (both acute and chronic), this subject is one that merits detailed research and assessment.
此外，从文献研究已发现苯是已知的致癌物质，甚至致死浓度超过职业接触限值（国家职业安全与健康–NIOSH 1994所）。事实上，在这一点上，它将被证明是行不通的，对那些已经暴露于苯在过去的几十年里，人的健康的影响是乏味的，
