Occupational Health and Safety Impacts of Climate Conditions

Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 145-156

  Kjellstrom, T ^a,b,c   Lemke, B ^d   Venugopal, V ^e  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d NELSON MARLBOROUGH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^e SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical exposures; Climate change; Climate variability; Climate variables; Heat stress; Mental health; Occupational health; Vector borne diseases; Weather extremes; Workers health; Workplace conditions

Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMAL STRESS;

CHEMICAL EXPOSURE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABLES; HEAT STRESS; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE; WEATHER EXTREMES; WORKPLACE CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84902224747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00120-9     Document Type: Chapter

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