Work-related heat stress concerns in automotive industries: A case study from Chennai, India

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ayyappan, Ramalingam ^a   Sankar, Sambandam ^a   Rajkumar, Paramasivan ^a   Balakrishnan, Kalpana ^a  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Climate change; WBGT; Work related heat stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053618439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2060     Document Type: Article

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