These heat stress indices attempt to protect human health by preventing adverse health outcomes by modelling the physiological response, and/or using some combination of humidity, solar radiation and ...

Exposure to extreme heat negatively affects occupational health. Heat stress indices like Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) combine temperature and humidity and allow quantifying the climatic impact ...

Aims: To assess whether workers under significant thermal stress necessarily dehydrated during their exposure and whether ... and the supervising organisation‘s ethics committee on human ...