Climate Change and Occupational Heat Problems
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Climate change and occupational heat problems.
In many parts of the world ongoing climate change during the last three decades has produced higher temperatures and occupational heat stress levels in both outdoor and indoor workplaces 1, 2). Working people are particularly exposed to these heating trends in tropical and subtropical countries, where excessive workplace heat exposures linked to the outdoor ambient thermal environment are a tra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.ms5101ed