Heat stress assessment among workers in a Nicaraguan sugarcane farm

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Cortez, Orlando Delgado ^a  

^a Occupational Health and Safety   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Climate measurements; Heat stress; Hydration; Production output; Sugarcane harvest

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053211848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2069     Document Type: Article

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