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Association between Heat Stress and Occupational Injury among Thai Workers: Findings of the Thai Cohort Study
- Source :
- Industrial Health. 51:34-46
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- National Institute of Industrial Health, 2013.
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Abstract
- Global warming will increase heat stress at home and at work. Few studies have addressed the health consequences in tropical low and middle income settings such as Thailand. We report on the association between heat stress and workplace injury among workers enrolled in the large national Thai Cohort Study in 2005 (N=58,495). We used logistic regression to relate heat stress and occupational injury separately for males and females, adjusting for covariate effects of age, income, education, alcohol, smoking, Body Mass Index, job location, job type, sleeping hours, existing illness, and having to work very fast. Nearly 20% of workers experienced occupational heat stress which strongly and significantly associated with occupational injury (adjusted OR 2.12, 95%CI 1.87-2.42 for males and 1.89, 95%CI 1.64-2.18 for females). This study provides evidence connecting heat stress and occupational injury in tropical Thailand and also identifies several factors that increase heat exposure. The findings will be useful for policy makers to consider work-related heat stress problems in tropical Thailand and to develop an occupational health and safety program which is urgently needed given the looming threat of global warming.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Climate Change
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Occupational injury
Poison control
Heat Stress Disorders
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Cohort Studies
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Environmental health
Injury prevention
medicine
Accidents, Occupational
Humans
Demography
Tropical Climate
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Human factors and ergonomics
Thailand
medicine.disease
Occupational Diseases
Female
business
Body mass index
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18808026 and 00198366
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Industrial Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....08a0d3cc5d4424a4389223960ed6e7de
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2012-0138