Hot environment and health problems of outdoor workers at a construction site

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 474-480

  Morioka, Ikuharu ^a   Miyai, Nobuyuki ^a   Miyashita, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Construction site; Health problems; Hot environment; Measures; Outdoor workers; Work control

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; SUGAR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SUMMER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

ADULT; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEAT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEASONS;

EID: 33747430512     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.474     Document Type: Article

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