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The organisational risks arise from bad layouts, poor training, improper work systems and procedures, poor discipline or drilling for emergencies. Equipment related risks are improper tools, inadequate safety devices like guards etc. fatigue production, use of wrong postures in work, and perhaps even boredom. Process related risks include risks from radiations (welding, furnaces etc) fumes, toxic gas leaks, uncontrollable reactions, fire and explosion risks. Product related risks include products that carry risks to the client. These may include unsafe, allergy producing or even carcinogenic components in the formulation, substandard designs that do not have adequate safety built in or even incomplete or improper user instructions that expose the user to above normal risks. The author rightly stresses the need for more education for the agricultural labour in avoiding environmental risks from farm machinery, excessive or improper use of chemicals and waste disposal. In order to get an insight into the problems of the Environment, I feel we should understand some basic "laws of nature". 1) Entropy: This may be defined as a measure of disorder'. The law states that all systems, left to them tend to increase in Entropy. This means that, if things are classified and segregated, they tend to get mixed up again in the non-living world. It is a distinctive characteristic of all life that living things tend to reduce disorder and increase segregation. Thus, if a dose of mercury is let out into the environment, the inanimate world tends to disperse it throughout the planet, while the < Rural Development Through Education System 151