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dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, A. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gaspar, Adélio | - |
dc.contributor.author | Quintela, Divo | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-02-17T10:26:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-02-17T10:26:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | European Journal of Applied Physiology. 104:2 (2008) 207-214 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/7662 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract The present work is essentially dedicated to the study of cold thermal environments. The analysis includes 32 industrial units from 6 activity sectors and the measurements were carried out in 101 workplaces. Different environmental conditions were identified and a clear relationship with the different types of workplaces was established. The work environments were thus allocated to three typical exposure categories corresponding to freezing and refrigerating cold stores and free-running or controlled air temperature manufacturing workplaces. In order to characterize the level of cold exposure, the method proposed by ISO/TR 11079, Technical Report, 1st edn, International Organization for Standardization, Geneva (1993) was adopted. The results for each activity sector demonstrate that a significant percentage of workers are repeatedly exposed to extreme conditions with insufficient clothing insulation. A value between 20 and 40% corresponds to the most critical situation, where the selected clothing ensemble does not provide adequate insulation (I clr < IREQ min). The ideal scenario, represented by I clr values between IREQ min and IREQ neutral, shows the lowest percentages with an overall result of only 10%. When all the sectors are considered together, from a total of 3,667 workers, about one-third (1,151) are exposed to the cold. Among the workplaces under analysis, 14 are characterized by a continuous exposure greater than the DLE neutral. Those who work under such conditions, on average, have a time shift 60 min longer than the calculated DLE value. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.rights | openAccess | eng |
dc.title | Occupational exposure to cold thermal environments: a field study in Portugal | en_US |
dc.type | article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00421-007-0630-5 | en_US |
item.fulltext | Com Texto completo | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | article | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
crisitem.author.researchunit | ADAI - Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0001-6947-4579 | - |
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