Abstract

Nowadays, industrilization development has many benefits and also causes many hazards and potential risks. Environmental risk assessment's role in environmental protection is as a tool that supports managers to make decisions and tend sustainable developement. The research focused on initial ecological risk assessment for industrial wastewater and risk form air pollutant to health worker in Vinh Loc and Tan Thoi Hiep industrial estates. Semi-quantitaive assessment risk quotient (RO) and HQ (hazard quotient) were used in ecological and health risk assessment. Besides, risk assessment matrix was also appllied in this study for industrial wastewater to surface water. The results showed that areas were with high, medium, low risk levels of industrial wastewater to the environment and compared risks between industrial estates with equipment of wastewater treatment system and without one.