NIOSH Workshop on the Heat Stress Standard

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Abstracts for eight papers given at a NIOSH workshop on the heat stress standard are presented. Subjects discussed were heat stress, permissible exposure limits; the effectiveness of preventive work practices in a hot workshop; heat stress tolerance testing; preemployment and periodic medical examinations for workers on hot jobs; design of work-rest schedule for hot jobs; prediction of heat strain and personal heat stress monitoring. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Heat Stress Disorders Hot Temperature Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Contract; Contract-210-79-0098; Work-analysis; Heat-stress; Exposure-limits; Safety-measures; Medical-monitoring; Medical-examinations; Industrial-factory-workers; Analytical-methods;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00106162
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1980 Jun; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:27436da90663f164f5cbf4bc5f9a8e4078d0dab57323bef34a18732adbda4554deed632a589578b038f55e045553c63b9388c688af9f7b551b1152d359077768
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/234262/cdc_234262_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.35 MB ]