作者
Albert PC Chan, Michael CH Yam, Joanne WY Chung, Wen Yi
发表日期
2012/2/17
期刊
Journal of Facilities Management
卷号
10
期号
1
页码范围
59-74
出版商
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
简介
Purpose
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Heat stress, having caused preventable and lamentable deaths, is hazardous to construction workers in the hot and humid summers of Hong Kong. The purpose of this paper is to develop a heat stress model, based on the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index.
Design/methodology/approach
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Field studies were conducted during the summer time in Hong Kong (July to September 2010). Based upon 281 sets of synchronized meteorological and physiological data collected from construction workers in four different construction sites between July and September 2010, physiological, work‐related, environmental and personal parameters were measured to construct and verify the heat stress model.
Findings
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It is found that drinking habit, age and work duration are the top three significant predictors to determine construction workers' physiological responses. Other predictors include percentage of …
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