Risk of heat exposure
Our organisation has a thermo-regulating system that allows maintaining the constant body temperature, using mechanisms as the vasodilatation and the perspiration/sudoración to delete the heat that our body generates constantly. In addition to this heat, there is also the heat produced by the physical activity required as part of our work.
The exhibition to high temperatures can cause that the physiological reply of termorregulación is insufficient, causing thermal stress for heat, that if is not corrected, can produce a “sunstroke”, serious disorder that it requires of urgent medical care.
The National Health and Safety at work Institute (INSST) offers specific spaces on prevention measures to protect the health and safety of hard-working people in the works out in the open and for adverseweather phenomenona.
How to prevent the exhibition?
Heat waves are becoming more frequent, more intense and longer lasting. Furthermore, they are increasingly happening outside the summer period, as is the case with spring heat waves. People who work outdoors are particularly affected by exposure to heat
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Extreme temperature alerts: Where can I find them?
Depending on the alerts for forecast high temperatures in your area, you have to schedule your work to avoid the times of highest risk, especially if you work outdoors
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How to evaluate the risk
The assessment of the risk for exhibition to heat depends on various factors as they are the climatic ones, the developed activity, the robe, caracterísitcas staffs, etc.
Resources and Tools
Exhibition to UV Radiations
The European survey on the exhibition of hard-working people to risk factors of cancer (WES) shows that the UV solar radiation is the factor more frequent in Europe.
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