Factors affecting horticultural and cleaning workers' preference on cooling vests

Building and Environment

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 181-189

  Chan, A P C ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Wong, D P ^b   Lam, E W M ^a   Li, Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cooling vest preference; Factor analysis; Horticultural and cleaning workers; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

COOLING VESTS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; FEMALE WORKERS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; HORTICULTURAL AND CLEANING WORKERS; HOT AND HUMID ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNDERLYING FACTORS;

AGRICULTURE; CLEANING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HOT WORKING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THERMAL COMFORT;

COOLING;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GENDER RELATIONS; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878509775     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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