heat stress monitoring News
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How to Set up a Heat Stress Monitoring System
It’s summer time and it is HOT outside! Make sure you are taking care of your employees that work in these extreme heat environments. Warning: Extreme heat levels can increase workers’ risk to injuries and lead to more serious health issues such as heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heat syncope, heat cramps, heat rashes, or death. Heat stress prevention starts with accurately ...
By Raeco Rents
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Ashtead expands environmental monitoring instrument fleet
Ashtead Technology has significantly increased its fleet of equipment for environmental and occupational safety monitoring with the addition of the TSI QUEST range of instruments. As a TSI Gold Channel Distributor, Ashtead will offer these advanced instruments for both hire and sale; providing customers with both instrumental and financial flexibility. “This is a major boost to our ...
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Environmental Equipment and Heat Stress Monitor Rental Company Urges Importance of Heat Stress Training
Denise Chew, president of environmental equipment rental and heat stress monitor rental company Enviro-Equipment, Inc., has an urgent message for businesses with workers who perform their duties outdoors: provide heat stress training now, before both worker well-being and the business’s bottom line are threatened. Chew’s message, which is all the more pressing given the ...
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What should you know when purchasing a WBGT instrument?
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature more directly measures temperature as it relates to a person’s risk of heat illness by factoring the effects of air temperature, relative humidity, wind velocity and radiant heat. Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, WBGT, is the weighted of average of Wet Bulb, Black Globe and Air Temperature in which WBGT = 0.7Tw + 0.2Tg + 0.1Td. Employers with workers who are at risk ...
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New heat stress measure (TWL) to guide safety on worksites in Abu Dhabi
A recently introduced heat stress measure will be used more widely across the emirate of Abu Dhabi this summer, senior health officials announced in the capital. The measure, known as the Thermal Work Limit (TWL), gauges factors that affect the human body’s ability to cool down, and guides the protection of workers in high temperatures and harsh working conditions, said Darren Joubert, ...
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60% of heat illness cases reduced in the Emirates Group after implementation of Scarlet TWL-1S
The implementation of thermal work limit (TWL) by Emirates Group showed a great success in reducing the incidence of heat stress cases this summer. Emirates Group has run a pilot scheme of TWL monitoring as part of their corporate Stay Healthy in the Heat Campaign in Dubai in 2013. The need to monitor TWL was identified in 2012, and the investment in implementing an easy and robust TWL ...
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