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Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala
As global temperatures continue to rise it is imperative to understand the adverse effects this will pose to workers laboring outdoors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between increases in wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) and risk of occupational injury or dehydration...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33171945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218195 |
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author | Dally, Miranda Butler-Dawson, Jaime Sorensen, Cecilia J. Van Dyke, Mike James, Katherine A. Krisher, Lyndsay Jaramillo, Diana Newman, Lee S. |
author_facet | Dally, Miranda Butler-Dawson, Jaime Sorensen, Cecilia J. Van Dyke, Mike James, Katherine A. Krisher, Lyndsay Jaramillo, Diana Newman, Lee S. |
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description | As global temperatures continue to rise it is imperative to understand the adverse effects this will pose to workers laboring outdoors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between increases in wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) and risk of occupational injury or dehydration among agricultural workers. We used data collected by an agribusiness in Southwest Guatemala over the course of four harvest seasons and Poisson generalized linear modelling for this analysis. Our analyses suggest a 3% increase in recorded injury risk with each degree increase in daily average WBGT above 30 °C (95% CI: −6%, 14%). Additionally, these data suggest that the relationship between WBGT and injury risk is non-linear with an additional 4% acceleration in risk for every degree increase in WBGT above 30 °C (95% CI: 0%, 8%). No relationship was found between daily average WBGT and risk of dehydration. Our results indicate that agricultural workers are at an increased risk of occupational injury in humid and hot environments and that businesses need to plan and adapt to increasing global temperatures by implementing and evaluating effective occupational safety and health programs to protect the health, safety, and well-being of their workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-76642432020-11-14 Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala Dally, Miranda Butler-Dawson, Jaime Sorensen, Cecilia J. Van Dyke, Mike James, Katherine A. Krisher, Lyndsay Jaramillo, Diana Newman, Lee S. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As global temperatures continue to rise it is imperative to understand the adverse effects this will pose to workers laboring outdoors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between increases in wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) and risk of occupational injury or dehydration among agricultural workers. We used data collected by an agribusiness in Southwest Guatemala over the course of four harvest seasons and Poisson generalized linear modelling for this analysis. Our analyses suggest a 3% increase in recorded injury risk with each degree increase in daily average WBGT above 30 °C (95% CI: −6%, 14%). Additionally, these data suggest that the relationship between WBGT and injury risk is non-linear with an additional 4% acceleration in risk for every degree increase in WBGT above 30 °C (95% CI: 0%, 8%). No relationship was found between daily average WBGT and risk of dehydration. Our results indicate that agricultural workers are at an increased risk of occupational injury in humid and hot environments and that businesses need to plan and adapt to increasing global temperatures by implementing and evaluating effective occupational safety and health programs to protect the health, safety, and well-being of their workers. MDPI 2020-11-06 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7664243/ /pubmed/33171945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218195 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Dally, Miranda Butler-Dawson, Jaime Sorensen, Cecilia J. Van Dyke, Mike James, Katherine A. Krisher, Lyndsay Jaramillo, Diana Newman, Lee S. Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala |
title | Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala |
title_full | Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala |
title_fullStr | Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala |
title_full_unstemmed | Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala |
title_short | Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala |
title_sort | wet bulb globe temperature and recorded occupational injury rates among sugarcane harvesters in southwest guatemala |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33171945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218195 |
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