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Heat Stress

Heat Stress ITS EFFECT AND CONTROL by Janet Wildeboor; MS, RN, COHN, and Janice Camp, MN, MSPH, RN, COHN h e occupational health nurse must be oxygen uptake. One liter of oxygen is equivalent to aware of environmental and physiological approximately 5 kcal heat production; an average factors that can affect worker safety and person at rest consumes 0.3 Umin of oxygen and produces 1.5 kcallmin of metabolic heat (Clayton, performance. Work in hot environments can in­ crease the physical demands of work and, in turn, 1978). As the metabolic and external heat load adversely affect performance. The occupational increases, a number of mechanisms are initiated to maintain body equilibrium. Core body temperature health nurse needs to understand the nature and effects of hot environments as well as methods to is regulated dynamically by the hypothalamic con­ prevent or alleviate those effects. Foundries, smelt­ trol of blood flow from muscles and tissues to the ing, mining, metal, and glass working are classic skin, where the heat can be dissipated via radia­ hot work industries. New sources of potential heat tion, convection, and evaporation. stress are arising in asbestos abatement, the nu­ Heat load to the worker comes from two clear power http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png AAOHN Journal SAGE

Heat Stress

Wildeboor, Janet; Camp, Janice
AAOHN Journal , Volume 41 (6): 7 – Jun 1, 1993
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© 1993 American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
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0891-0162
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10.1177/216507999304100601
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ITS EFFECT AND CONTROL by Janet Wildeboor; MS, RN, COHN, and Janice Camp, MN, MSPH, RN, COHN h e occupational health nurse must be oxygen uptake. One liter of oxygen is equivalent to aware of environmental and physiological approximately 5 kcal heat production; an average factors that can affect worker safety and person at rest consumes 0.3 Umin of oxygen and produces 1.5 kcallmin of metabolic heat (Clayton, performance. Work in hot environments can in­ crease the physical demands of work and, in turn, 1978). As the metabolic and external heat load adversely affect performance. The occupational increases, a number of mechanisms are initiated to maintain body equilibrium. Core body temperature health nurse needs to understand the nature and effects of hot environments as well as methods to is regulated dynamically by the hypothalamic con­ prevent or alleviate those effects. Foundries, smelt­ trol of blood flow from muscles and tissues to the ing, mining, metal, and glass working are classic skin, where the heat can be dissipated via radia­ hot work industries. New sources of potential heat tion, convection, and evaporation. stress are arising in asbestos abatement, the nu­ Heat load to the worker comes from two clear power

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Published: Jun 1, 1993

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