Applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) in occupational heat stress assessment: a case study in brick industries
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Applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) in occupational heat stress assessment: a case study in brick industries
The present study aimed to investigate the applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) as an innovative and science-based index in public health researches, in occupational heat stress assessment. All indoor and outdoor workers (200 people) of Brick industries of Shahroud, Iran participated in the research. First, the environmental variables such as air temperature, wet-bulb tempera...
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عنوان ژورنال: INDUSTRIAL HEALTH
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.2015-0069