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Workplace Intervention for Heat Stress: Essential Elements of Design, Implementation, and Assessment

Heat stress is associated with numerous health effects that potentially harm workers, especially in a warming world. This investigation occurred in a setting where laborers are confronted with occupational heat stress from physically demanding work in high environmental temperatures. Collaboration w...

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Autores principales: Glaser, Jason, Wegman, David H., Arias-Monge, Esteban, Pacheco-Zenteno, Felipe, Prince, Heath, Chavarria, Denis, Martinez-Cuadra, William Jose, Jakobsson, Kristina, Hansson, Erik, Lucas, Rebekah A. I., Weiss, Ilana, Wesseling, Catharina
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073779
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author Glaser, Jason
Wegman, David H.
Arias-Monge, Esteban
Pacheco-Zenteno, Felipe
Prince, Heath
Chavarria, Denis
Martinez-Cuadra, William Jose
Jakobsson, Kristina
Hansson, Erik
Lucas, Rebekah A. I.
Weiss, Ilana
Wesseling, Catharina
author_facet Glaser, Jason
Wegman, David H.
Arias-Monge, Esteban
Pacheco-Zenteno, Felipe
Prince, Heath
Chavarria, Denis
Martinez-Cuadra, William Jose
Jakobsson, Kristina
Hansson, Erik
Lucas, Rebekah A. I.
Weiss, Ilana
Wesseling, Catharina
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description Heat stress is associated with numerous health effects that potentially harm workers, especially in a warming world. This investigation occurred in a setting where laborers are confronted with occupational heat stress from physically demanding work in high environmental temperatures. Collaboration with a major Nicaraguan sugarcane producer offered the opportunity to study interventions to prevent occupational heat-stress-related kidney disease. Two aims for this study of a rest-shade-water intervention program were: (1) describe the evolving intervention, summarize findings that motivated proposed improvements, assess impact of those improvements, and identify challenges to successful implementation and (2) extract primary lessons learned about intervention research that have both general relevance to investigations of work-related disease prevention and specific relevance to this setting. The learning curve for the various stakeholders as well as the barriers to success demonstrate that effectiveness of an intervention cannot be adequately assessed without considerations of implementation. Designing, effectively implementing, and assessing both health impacts and implementation quality is a resource-intensive endeavor requiring a transdisciplinary approach. Both general and specific lessons learned are presented for decisions on study design and study elements, implementation assessment, and management engagement in understanding how productivity and health can be successfully balanced and for building effective communication between investigators and all levels of management.
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spelling pubmed-89981342022-04-12 Workplace Intervention for Heat Stress: Essential Elements of Design, Implementation, and Assessment Glaser, Jason Wegman, David H. Arias-Monge, Esteban Pacheco-Zenteno, Felipe Prince, Heath Chavarria, Denis Martinez-Cuadra, William Jose Jakobsson, Kristina Hansson, Erik Lucas, Rebekah A. I. Weiss, Ilana Wesseling, Catharina Int J Environ Res Public Health Communication Heat stress is associated with numerous health effects that potentially harm workers, especially in a warming world. This investigation occurred in a setting where laborers are confronted with occupational heat stress from physically demanding work in high environmental temperatures. Collaboration with a major Nicaraguan sugarcane producer offered the opportunity to study interventions to prevent occupational heat-stress-related kidney disease. Two aims for this study of a rest-shade-water intervention program were: (1) describe the evolving intervention, summarize findings that motivated proposed improvements, assess impact of those improvements, and identify challenges to successful implementation and (2) extract primary lessons learned about intervention research that have both general relevance to investigations of work-related disease prevention and specific relevance to this setting. The learning curve for the various stakeholders as well as the barriers to success demonstrate that effectiveness of an intervention cannot be adequately assessed without considerations of implementation. Designing, effectively implementing, and assessing both health impacts and implementation quality is a resource-intensive endeavor requiring a transdisciplinary approach. Both general and specific lessons learned are presented for decisions on study design and study elements, implementation assessment, and management engagement in understanding how productivity and health can be successfully balanced and for building effective communication between investigators and all levels of management. MDPI 2022-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8998134/ /pubmed/35409463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073779 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Prince, Heath
Chavarria, Denis
Martinez-Cuadra, William Jose
Jakobsson, Kristina
Hansson, Erik
Lucas, Rebekah A. I.
Weiss, Ilana
Wesseling, Catharina
Workplace Intervention for Heat Stress: Essential Elements of Design, Implementation, and Assessment
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