Rationale and Provisions of the Work Practices Standard for Work in Hot Environments as Recommended by NIOSH.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Dukes-Dobos FN
• Description:
  The basic precept of the work practices standard for work in hot environments is that the workers' deep body temperature will not exceed 38 degrees centigrade, corresponding to 100.4 degrees fahrenheit. Since there is no socially acceptable instrument for monitoring workers' deep body temperature, two alternative ways for making sure that workers in hot jobs will not have to work under conditions which will cause deep body temperature to exceed 38 degrees centigrade are discussed, including establishing the combinations of climatic conditions and work intensities which will cause deep body temperature to rise above the limit, and mandatory work practices such as acclimatization. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Heat Stress Disorders Hot Temperature Occupational Health Safety Temperature
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Grant; Grants-other; Thermal-environment; Heat-stress; Heat-tolerance; Hot-environments; Physiological-response; Thermoregulation
• Publisher:
  Industrial Health Foundation and Graduate School of Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  62-104
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00049184
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Standards for Occupational Exposures to Hot Environments 1973 Feb:62-104
• Contact Point Address:
  None Industrial Health Foundation 5231 Centre Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15232
• Editor(s):
  Horvath SM
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  Industrial Health Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19720101
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Standards for Occupational Exposures to Hot Environments
• End Date:
  19730630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241879/cdc_241879_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]