The significant role of health surveillance in the occupational heat stress assessment

Francesco Chirico; Nicola Magnavita

doi:10.1007/s00484-018-1651-y

The significant role of health surveillance in the occupational heat stress assessment

Francesco Chirico, Nicola Magnavita

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Abstract

In order to address the heat stress hazard, the worker health surveillance makes a difference by providing information about individual factor, feedback, and evidence about efficacy of preventive measures and activities carried out through the risk assessment process, at individual and group levels. Every technical, procedural, or organizational measures could be ineffective without taking into account the results provided by health surveillance.

Lingua originale	English
pagine (da-a)	193-194
Rivista	International Journal of Biometeorology
Volume	63
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-018-1651-y
Stato di pubblicazione	Pubblicato - 2019

Keywords

Atmospheric Science
Ecology
Health surveillance
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Heat stress–related illness
Occupational physicians
Outdoor workers
Risk assessment process

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