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- The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is vital for healthcare and industry workers to manage COVID-19, but it can also lead to heat stress in warm environments.
- Past experiences with the Ebola outbreak highlight the importance of balancing worker health and productivity while using PPE.
- The paper discusses various cooling solutions to reduce heat strain on workers, emphasizing the need for practical and effective strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article Abstract
Treatment and management of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), requires increased adoption of personal protective equipment (PPE) to be worn by workers in healthcare and industry. In warm occupational settings, the added burden of PPE threatens worker health and productivity, a major lesson learned during the West-African Ebola outbreak which ultimately constrained disease control. In this paper, we comment on the link between COVID-19 PPE and occupational heat strain, cooling solutions available to mitigate occupational heat stress, and practical considerations surrounding their effectiveness and feasibility. While the choice of cooling solution depends on the context of the work and what is practical, mitigating occupational heat stress benefits workers in the healthcare and industrial sectors during the COVID-19 disease outbreak.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543286 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxaa082 | DOI Listing |
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