Heat Stress: Understand Heat Stress Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment [2018]

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Know your risk factors: Health Problems; Activities; Environment; Medications; Poor Acclimatization; and other factors.Stay hydrated, get acclimatized to the heat, and apply first aid for heat illness. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  First Aid Heat Exhaustion Heat Stress Disorders Hot Temperature Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Heat acclimatization; Heat exhaustion; Heat exposure; Heat stress; Heat stroke; First aid
• Source:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-116, 2018 Jan; :1
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2018116
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SMRD - Spokane Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051010
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b76639cf0dac80dd654b5519ca2c01e600734cce3d2a797d60b6af29daa29488a8ef5272aea91c8c3fccc811bd60d7ebab8b593f75d87f9ae6a24a75956b0eb6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52905/cdc_52905_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.92 MB ]