Study on heat waves and workplace accidents

Heat stress is an occupational risk in all sectors and causes occupational accidents to increase during heat waves, especially after the third day of exposure to this extreme heat situation, as reflects the study carried out by Ana Santurtún Zarrabeitia, professor of the Forensic Medicine Unit of the University of Cantabria, together with researchers from this same center, from the University of Coimbra and Sao Paulo.

The study analyzes data from 17 years in different provinces of our country, specifically Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, and considers that a heat wave exists when average daily temperatures are recorded above the threshold (95th percentile) of the climatological period (1990-2021) for at least three consecutive days, for each province.

There is a relationship between heat waves in Spain and workplace accidents

Various studies have been carried out on environmental health, climate change and its manifestations in human health due to cardiovascular health, for example, but practically nothing has been published regarding accidents, which is why this project on occupational accidents, explains the author: "... has special medical-legal interest since it must be taken into account that the natural environment will have an impact on the health of individuals, both directly at the cardiovascular or respiratory level and indirectly, since when people are in a environment that does not generate comfort, they rest worse and their concentration is lower and that leads to an increase in accidents."

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