Occupational health impacts of climate change: Current and future ISO standards for the assessment of heat stress

Industrial Health

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-100

  Parsons, Ken ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ergonomics; Health; Heat stress; International standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874079159     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.2012-0165     Document Type: Article

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