Interaction between indoor occupational heat stress and environmental temperature elevations during heat waves
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Interaction between indoor occupational heat stress and environmental temperature elevations during heat waves. / Ciuha, Urša; Pogačar, Tjaša; Bogataj, Lučka Kajfež; Gliha, Mitja; Nybo, Lars; Flouris, Andreas D; Mekjavic, Igor B.
I: Weather, Climate, and Society, Bind 11, Nr. 4, 2019, s. 755-762.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Interaction between indoor occupational heat stress and environmental temperature elevations during heat waves
AU - Ciuha, Urša
AU - Pogačar, Tjaša
AU - Bogataj, Lučka Kajfež
AU - Gliha, Mitja
AU - Nybo, Lars
AU - Flouris, Andreas D
AU - Mekjavic, Igor B
N1 - CURIS 2019 NEXS 362
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Occupational heat strain is a public health threat, and for outdoor industries there is a direct influence from elevated environmental temperatures during heat waves. However, the impact in indoor settings is more complex as industrial heat production and building architecture become factors of importance. Therefore, this study evaluated effects of heat waves on manufacturing productivity. Production halls in a manufacturing company were instrumented with 33 dataloggers to track air temperature and humidity. In addition, outdoor thermal conditions collected from a weather station next to the factory and daily productivity evaluated as overall equipment efficiency (OEE) were obtained, with interaction between productivity and thermal conditions analyzed before, during, and after four documented heat waves (average daily air temperature above 24°C on at least three consecutive days). Outdoor (before: 21.3° ± 4.6°C, during: 25.5° ± 4.3°C, and after: 19.8° ± 3.8°C) and indoor air temperatures (before: 30.4° ± 1.3°C, during: 32.8° ± 1.4°C, and after: 30.1° ± 1.4°C) were significantly elevated during the heat waves (p < 0.05). OEE was not different during the heat waves when compared with control, pre-heat-wave, and postheat- waveOEE. Reduced OEE was observed in 3-day periods following the second and fourth heat wave (p < 0.05). Indoor workers in settings with high industrial heat production are exposed to a significant thermal stress that may increase during heat waves, but the impact on productivity cannot be directly derived from outdoor factors. The significant decline in productivity immediately following two of the documented heat waves could relate to a cumulative effect of the thermal strain experienced during work combined with high heat stress in the recovery time between work shifts.
AB - Occupational heat strain is a public health threat, and for outdoor industries there is a direct influence from elevated environmental temperatures during heat waves. However, the impact in indoor settings is more complex as industrial heat production and building architecture become factors of importance. Therefore, this study evaluated effects of heat waves on manufacturing productivity. Production halls in a manufacturing company were instrumented with 33 dataloggers to track air temperature and humidity. In addition, outdoor thermal conditions collected from a weather station next to the factory and daily productivity evaluated as overall equipment efficiency (OEE) were obtained, with interaction between productivity and thermal conditions analyzed before, during, and after four documented heat waves (average daily air temperature above 24°C on at least three consecutive days). Outdoor (before: 21.3° ± 4.6°C, during: 25.5° ± 4.3°C, and after: 19.8° ± 3.8°C) and indoor air temperatures (before: 30.4° ± 1.3°C, during: 32.8° ± 1.4°C, and after: 30.1° ± 1.4°C) were significantly elevated during the heat waves (p < 0.05). OEE was not different during the heat waves when compared with control, pre-heat-wave, and postheat- waveOEE. Reduced OEE was observed in 3-day periods following the second and fourth heat wave (p < 0.05). Indoor workers in settings with high industrial heat production are exposed to a significant thermal stress that may increase during heat waves, but the impact on productivity cannot be directly derived from outdoor factors. The significant decline in productivity immediately following two of the documented heat waves could relate to a cumulative effect of the thermal strain experienced during work combined with high heat stress in the recovery time between work shifts.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Climate change
KW - Climatology
KW - Stress
KW - Temperature
U2 - 10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0024.1
DO - 10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0024.1
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85074984356
VL - 11
SP - 755
EP - 762
JO - Weather, Climate, and Society
JF - Weather, Climate, and Society
SN - 1948-8327
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 230692005