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Climate change and occupational health and safety. Risk of injuries, productivity loss and the co-benefits perspective.
Environ Res
January 2025
Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council (CNR), Florence, Italy.
Background: Climate change is a fundamental threat to human health and outdoor workers are one of the most vulnerable population subgroups. Increasing heat stress and heatwaves are directly associated with the health and safety of workers for a large spectrum of occupations. Heat stress negatively affects labour supply, productivity, and workability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssociation Between Acute Kidney Injury Hospital Visits and Environmental Heat Stress at a Nicaraguan Sugarcane Plantation.
Workplace Health Saf
April 2024
La Isla Network, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Background: Mesoamerican sugarcane cutters are at a high risk of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin, a disease likely linked to heat-related acute kidney injury (AKI). Studies in general populations have described a positive association between high environmental temperatures and clinically assessed kidney outcomes, but there are no studies in occupational settings.
Method: We accessed routine records of clinically diagnosed AKI (AKI-CD) and wet bulb globe temperatures (WBGT) at a large Nicaraguan sugarcane plantation and modeled the relationship between these using negative binomial regression.
Observed Warming Trends at U.S. Army Basic Combat Training Installations and Implications for Future Recruit Training.
Mil Med
May 2024
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Introduction: Army recruits conducting BCT are among the most susceptible population of military personnel to experience exertional heat illness, a concern expected to become increasingly urgent due to steadily rising temperatures. In this study, we provide an empirical analysis of wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) index trends at U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal warming and the Summer Olympic and Paralympic games: a perspective from the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Environ Health Prev Med
March 2022
Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games provided a significant opportunity to consider global warming as an issue to be seriously addressed to run the safe and fair games in the era of climate change. As the global temperature continuously rises and extreme hot-weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the future summer Olympic and Paralympic games will need to deal with the heat by applying thorough and appropriate countermeasures. In the recent decades, many mitigation measures to protect athletes from heat have been rapidly discussed by the sports community, including countermeasures to hold games at times and places with moderate temperature and climatic risk assessments with Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) during the games.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth vs. wealth: Employer, employee and policy-maker perspectives on occupational heat stress across multiple European industries.
Temperature (Austin)
December 2020
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Successful implementation of cooling strategies obviously depends on identifying effective interventions, but in industrial settings, it is equally important to consider feasibility and economic viability. Many cooling interventions are available, but the decision processes affecting adoption by end-users are not well elucidated. We therefore arranged two series of meetings with stakeholders to identify knowledge gaps, receive feedback on proposed cooling interventions, and discuss factors affecting implementation of heat-health interventions.
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