Global warming will unquestionably increase the impact of heat on individuals who work in
already hot workplaces in hot climate areas. The increasing prevalence of this …

The assessment of the risk of human exposure to heat is a topic as relevant today as a
century ago. The introduction and use of heat stress indices and models to predict and …

Abstract The Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) seems to be still used world widely for
the evaluation of heat stress conditions and it is recommended by ISO and American …

The growing need for valid assessment procedures of the outdoor thermal environment in
the fields of public weather services, public health systems, urban planning, tourism & …

Critical environmental limits are those combinations of ambient temperature and humidity
above which heat balance cannot be maintained for a given metabolic heat production …

Thermal comfort indices are vital tools when assessing outdoor thermal comfort in hot and
arid environments. Selecting a representative thermal comfort index for outdoor …

The purpose of this consensus document was to develop feasible, evidence‐based
occupational heat safety recommendations to protect the US workers that experience heat …

Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) is an epidemic that affects young
agricultural workers in several warm regions of the world. However, there is a lack of …

PURPOSE: To mitigate rises in core temperature> 1 C, the American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) recommends upper limits for heat stress (Action …

Heat stress has an adverse impact on worker health and well-being, and the effects will
increase with more frequent and severe heat events associated with global warming …