With things like climate change and some Ontario mines going deeper, a Sudbury scientist is looking to make workplaces safer for the worker by monitoring how quickly their bodies get uncomfortably warm, which puts them at risk.
To deal with this issue, Ontario workers will soon be provided with “toolkits” to those who are overexposed to heat in the workplace. A new heat stress awareness guide has been developed by OHCOW (Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers) and by the Sudbury based CROSH (Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health). The heat stress toolkits will be released to the public in May.
Sandra Dorman provided the information April 18 during a seminar at the annual Workplace Safety North annual mining safety and health conference held in Sudbury.
Dorman is a full professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Sciences at Laurentian University, where she has been researching the use of wearable technology to help measure body temperature changes of people in the workplace.
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