Coffee Roasting

Saltspring Coffee Roasting

Coffee roasting involves taking dried green coffee beans and using a roaster to create roasted coffee beans.

Roasting coffee beans initiated a chemical reaction in the green beans that produces the harmful chemical diacetyl. Workers are exposed to diacetyl through fumes produced while roasting. Diacetyl can cause harmful lung diseases such as bronchiolitis obliterans; these diseases can be deadly.^[1]

Workers are also at danger of being burnt by the coffee roaster.

Occupational health and safety

Physical hazards

Physical burns
Injury from machinery

Chemical hazards

Diacetyl poisoning

References

↑ Rutledge, R. (n.d.). Coffee roasters' health at risk from toxic compound. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/coffee-roasters-health-at-risk-from-chemical-compound-air-samples-suggest-b99505149z1-308183961.html

[1] Rutledge, R. (n.d.). Coffee roasters' health at risk from toxic compound. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/coffee-roasters-health-at-risk-from-chemical-compound-air-samples-suggest-b99505149z1-308183961.html

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