Evaluaci?n de Exposici?n Ocupacional Prolongada a Estr?s por Calor
- Authors
- Garz?n Villalba, Patricia
- Format
- DoctoralThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Heat stress is a recognized occupational hazard present in many work environments. Its effects increase with increasing environmental heat loads. There is good evidence that exertional heat illness is associated with ambient thermal conditions in outdoor environments. Further, there is reason to believe that risk of acute injury may also increase with the ambient environment. For these reasons, the assessment of heat stress, which can be done through the characterization of the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), is designed to limit exposures to those that could be sustained for an 8-h day. The ACGIH Threshold Limit Value (TLV) for heat stress was based on limited data from Lind in the 1960s. Because there are practical limitations of using thermal indices, measurement of physiological parameters, such as body temperature and heart rate are used with environmental indices or as their alternative.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- ESTR?S POR CALOR
RESPUESTAS FISIOL?GICAS AL CALOR
CALOR AMBIENTAL
FISIOL?GICOS
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License