Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is “the decision-making process of identifying the potentially significant environmental effects and risks of an project ". Environmental impact analysis is one of the stages of an EIA (Sadler and McCabe, 2002). Environmental impact analysis is a process aimed at providing decision makers with an indication of the likely consequences of their action (Wathern, 2013). This step includes identifying the impact and determining the significance of the impacts. Impact identification is the process of illustrating the cause and effect relationship between project activities and key environmental aspects. This requires systematic expert knowledge and judgment (Sadler and McCabe, 2002). In this study, the key environmental aspects are the activities in the two processing units of MCF that directly interact with the environment and result in environmental impacts.2.2.2. Determining the significance of the impactSignificance is the intensity of the impacts. Intensity can include beneficial or determining, reversible or irreversible, repairable or irreparable, short-term or long-term, temporary or continuous, local, regional or global, accidental or planned, direct or indirect, and cumulative or unique (Canter and Canty , 1993). determination is a process of judging what is important, desirable or acceptable (Lawrence, 2007a&b; Sippe, 1999). Determining impact significance involves predicting the magnitude of the impact (Thompson, 1990). It takes into account the characteristics of the impact such as magnitude, duration, frequency, spatial distribution, reversibility, probability) (Beanlands & Duinker, 1983). According to Canter & Canty (1993), the determination of the significance of the impact has a conceptual relationship with the screening and.... ..middle of paper ......ed from four sectors of the region where the factory is located. These experts were purposively selected based on their responsibilities, as these are major sectors in the Tigray regional state that have experts to assess and monitor factories. With this in mind, 60 employees were selected in the factory (30 from CRM and 30 from COK). By grouping employees who work in both processing units according to their shift to ensure participation, and selecting ten employees using a simple random method from each shift.2.3.3. Household surveyIn addition to respondents from the factory and external sectors, the study used the local community living around the factory for comparison. The study selected 120 local households from a total of 1,122 households using a simple random method. Data was collected from households using structured interviews.