This type of stress is simply the heat load that workers receive and accumulate in your body and is

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The presence or accumulation of heat generation in the workplace can be a source of potential problems that result in complaints about lack of comfort, low performance and sometimes even in health risks.
In this context, the Energy Innovation Center (CIE) of the Technical University Federico Santa Maria, has started making in style fashion industrial measurements in certain working in style fashion conditions to the acquisition of an accurate tool for this purpose, called the Heat Index WGGT Meter, which has assess in style fashion possible jobs.
According explains Director of CIE and Academic Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jaime Espinoza, "the study of the thermal environment requires knowledge of a number of environmental in style fashion variables, the type of work and the individual. Most of the possible combinations of these variables that occur in the workplace, leading to situations of discomfort, in style fashion no risk to health. However, an unfavorable thermal environment, it can generate a risk to worker health. The latter is almost always conditioned to the existence of thermal radiation (hot surfaces), higher humidity at 80% or less than 20% and work involving some physical effort. "
"Heat stress for a person depends on the production of heat from your body as a result of physical activity and the characteristics of the surrounding in style fashion environment, which influences the heat exchange between the atmosphere and body. When the heat generated by the body will not be released into the atmosphere is accumulated in the interior of the body and its temperature tends to increase, which may result in style fashion in damage to health ", noted the professor.
This type of stress is simply the heat load that workers receive and accumulate in your body and is a result in style fashion of the environmental conditions of the workplace, physical activity performed and the clothing worn. Thus it is not a pathological effect that the heat can originate workers, but the cause of adverse effects that occur when excessive heat is accumulated in the body.
There are several methods to measure heat stress. Currently, the law in Chile through the DS 594/1999 of the Ministry of Health, uses the WBGT indicator (Temperature and Wet Bulb Globe WBGT or, for short) to calculate the thermal stress caused by heat in the work environment . "This index takes into account two factors that can cause heat stress risk. Heat, first calculate the WBGT is taking into account variables such as radiant heat, air temperature and humidity, among others; and on the other hand, calculates a metabolic rate that takes into account the activity in style fashion in each job, "said Espinoza.
Professor Evans notes that "the in style fashion risks that can generate heat stress can occur very quickly, but most of the time the causes are easily recognizable and the possibility of damage is equally predictable. When conditions are not extreme heat stress can go unnoticed but the discomfort it causes, increases the likelihood of accidents at work, and decreases the efficiency of production. This can aggravate previous problems of the worker as the case of respiratory and cardiovascular in style fashion problems. Finally, problems can lead to dehydration and cramps. "
"It is important that all companies in which the temperature at which exposed workers is abnormally high and those with a strong physical load, measure these factors to ensure that their staff are not exposed to risks, like any company perceived that the heat is too much in the workplace, "he in style fashion says.
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