Analysis of the Climate Impact on Occupational Health and Safety Using Heat Stress Indexes.

Unlabelled: Workers may be exposed to conditions that put their physical and mental integrity at risk, from workplace settings to climate characteristics. Heat stress is a harmful health condition caused by exceeding the human body's tolerance limits, leading to illness and increasing the chance of work accidents. Heat stress indexes, such as the Humidex and the Heat Index (HI), are used to measure these impacts.

Identification of high-risk beneficiaries in private healthcare insurance.

The objective of this study was to apply the Knowledge Discovery in Databases process to find out if beneficiaries of a private healthcare insurance would belong, at least once, to the 'very high cost' and 'complex cases' groups throughout the 12 months after the month when algorithms were applied. Datasets were built containing information on beneficiaries' effective use of their health plan, as well as their characteristics. Five machine learning algorithms were used, namely Random forest, Extra tree, Xgboost, Naive bayes and K-nearest neighbor.

Impact of climate change on occupational health and safety: A review of methodological approaches.

Background: The working population is exposed daily to unavoidable climatic conditions due to their occupational settings. Effects of the weather such as rain, heat, and air pollution may increase the risk of diseases, injuries, accidents, and even death during labor.

Objective: This paper aims to summarize the impacts of climate change on workers' health, safety and performance, identifying the risks, affected workplaces and the range of methodological approaches used to assess this problem.

Risk management in occupational safety: A systematic mapping.

Background: Occupational safety risk management is a systemic process capable of promoting technical engineering solutions, considering a wide range of predictable, unexpected and subjective factors related to accident occurrences. In Brazil, the behavior of managers in relation to risk management tends to be reactive, and facilitates access to information for crucial practical and academic purposes when it comes to changing the attitude of managers, so that their actions become increasingly more proactive.

Objective: To identify, classify, analyze, and discuss the existing literature related to the topic, produced from 2008 to 2020, besides contributing to a broader understanding of risk management in occupational safety.