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: Received: 15 October 2024 / Approved: 16 October 2024 / Online: 16 October 2024 (10:51:27 CEST)
How to cite:
Adamopoulos, I.; Syrou, N.; Mpourazanis, G.; Constantinidis, T.; Dounias, G. The Global Climate Crisis is Associated with Environmental Risks and Heat Stress impacts on Occupational Safety, Health, and Hygiene. Preprints2024, 2024101280. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1280.v1
Adamopoulos, I.; Syrou, N.; Mpourazanis, G.; Constantinidis, T.; Dounias, G. The Global Climate Crisis is Associated with Environmental Risks and Heat Stress impacts on Occupational Safety, Health, and Hygiene. Preprints 2024, 2024101280. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1280.v1
Adamopoulos, I.; Syrou, N.; Mpourazanis, G.; Constantinidis, T.; Dounias, G. The Global Climate Crisis is Associated with Environmental Risks and Heat Stress impacts on Occupational Safety, Health, and Hygiene. Preprints2024, 2024101280. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1280.v1
APA Style
Adamopoulos, I., Syrou, N., Mpourazanis, G., Constantinidis, T., & Dounias, G. (2024). The Global Climate Crisis is Associated with Environmental Risks and Heat Stress impacts on Occupational Safety, Health, and Hygiene. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1280.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Adamopoulos, I., Theodore Constantinidis and George Dounias. 2024 "The Global Climate Crisis is Associated with Environmental Risks and Heat Stress impacts on Occupational Safety, Health, and Hygiene" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1280.v1
Abstract
The relationship between the global climate crisis associated with environmental risks and occupational hygiene has not been extensively studied. This study develops a framework for identifying how climate change and the climate crisis could impact the workplace environment, workers, and occupational morbidity, mortality, and injury. A framework based on a review of scientific literature published from 2012-2024 that addresses climate risks, their interaction with occupational hazards, and their effects on the workforce. Eight categories of climate-related hazards are identified: increased high temperatures, dust and air pollution, sun and cosmic ultraviolet exposure, pandemics, and infectious diseases, diseases transmitted by insects and changes in ecosystems, industrial occupational diseases, changes and crises in the built environment, and extreme weather events. It is important to consider the possibility of interactions between known hazards and new conditions and the productivity of workers, especially those who are most at risk of heat-related illnesses.
Keywords
global climate crisis; environmental risks; heat stress; occupational safety; public health; public hygiene
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
Copyright:
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