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Governments urged to protect workers as extreme heat threatens global health and productivity
Rising global temperatures are exposing billions of workers to dangerous heat levels, prompting United Nations agencies to call for urgent protections to prevent health risks and economic losses.Jennifer Rigby reports for Reuters.In short:The World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization warn that manual laborers, particularly in agriculture, construction, and fisheries, are suffering severe health effects from escalating…
Climate change is intensifying heat waves, seriously impacting the health and working conditions of millions of outdoor workers. This is revealed in a recent joint report by the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, which warns that these high temperatures not only cause life-threatening illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and kidney and neurological damage, but also a significant drop in productivity. The increase …
WHO and WMO call for action to protect health of workers from extreme heat
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have published a new joint report and guidance highlighting the growing global health challenges posed by extreme heat on workers The new report and technical guidance, Climate change and workplace heat stress, draws on five decades of research and evidence, highlighting that the health and productivity of workers are severely impacted by rising extreme temperatu…
Specialized agencies of the United Nations issue indications to address the negative effects on human health caused by the growing caloric overload in the workplace
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