Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce

Heat exposure constitutes a major threat for European workers, with significant impacts on the workers' health and productivity. Climate projections over the next decades show a continuous and accelerated warming over Europe together with longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves on regi...

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Autores: Casanueva Vicente, Ana|||0000-0002-7568-0229, Kotlarski, Sven, Fischer, Andreas M., Flouris, Andreas D., Kjellstrom, Tord, Lemke, Bruno, Nybo, Lars, Schwierz, Cornelia, Liniger, Mark A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/20678
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/20678
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Heat exposure
Heat stress
Climate change
Wet bulb globe temperature
Labour productivity
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spelling Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforceCasanueva Vicente, Ana|||0000-0002-7568-0229Kotlarski, SvenFischer, Andreas M.Flouris, Andreas D.Kjellstrom, TordLemke, BrunoNybo, LarsSchwierz, CorneliaLiniger, Mark A.Heat exposureHeat stressClimate changeWet bulb globe temperatureLabour productivityHeat exposure constitutes a major threat for European workers, with significant impacts on the workers' health and productivity. Climate projections over the next decades show a continuous and accelerated warming over Europe together with longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves on regional and local scales. In this work, we assess the increased risk in future occupational heat stress levels using the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), an index adopted by the International Standards Organization as regulatory index to measure the heat exposure of working people. Our results show that, in large parts of Europe, future heat exposure will indeed exceed critical levels for physically active humans far more often than in today?s climate, and labour productivity might be largely reduced in southern Europe. European industries should adapt to the projected changes to prevent major consequences for the workers? health and to preserve economic productivity.Financial support for this work is provided by the HEAT-SHIELD Project (European Commission HORIZON 2020, research and innovation programme under the grant agreement 668786). The authors wish to thank the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) for providing the technical infrastructure.Springer NatureUniversidad de Cantabria20202020-06-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/20678Regional Environmental Change, 2020, 20(2), 40reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/206782026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
title Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
spellingShingle Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
Casanueva Vicente, Ana|||0000-0002-7568-0229
Heat exposure
Heat stress
Climate change
Wet bulb globe temperature
Labour productivity
title_short Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
title_full Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
title_fullStr Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
title_full_unstemmed Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
title_sort Escalating environmental summer heat exposure - a future threat for the European workforce
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Casanueva Vicente, Ana|||0000-0002-7568-0229
Kotlarski, Sven
Fischer, Andreas M.
Flouris, Andreas D.
Kjellstrom, Tord
Lemke, Bruno
Nybo, Lars
Schwierz, Cornelia
Liniger, Mark A.
author Casanueva Vicente, Ana|||0000-0002-7568-0229
author_facet Casanueva Vicente, Ana|||0000-0002-7568-0229
Kotlarski, Sven
Fischer, Andreas M.
Flouris, Andreas D.
Kjellstrom, Tord
Lemke, Bruno
Nybo, Lars
Schwierz, Cornelia
Liniger, Mark A.
author_role author
author2 Kotlarski, Sven
Fischer, Andreas M.
Flouris, Andreas D.
Kjellstrom, Tord
Lemke, Bruno
Nybo, Lars
Schwierz, Cornelia
Liniger, Mark A.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Heat exposure
Heat stress
Climate change
Wet bulb globe temperature
Labour productivity
topic Heat exposure
Heat stress
Climate change
Wet bulb globe temperature
Labour productivity
description Heat exposure constitutes a major threat for European workers, with significant impacts on the workers' health and productivity. Climate projections over the next decades show a continuous and accelerated warming over Europe together with longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves on regional and local scales. In this work, we assess the increased risk in future occupational heat stress levels using the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), an index adopted by the International Standards Organization as regulatory index to measure the heat exposure of working people. Our results show that, in large parts of Europe, future heat exposure will indeed exceed critical levels for physically active humans far more often than in today?s climate, and labour productivity might be largely reduced in southern Europe. European industries should adapt to the projected changes to prevent major consequences for the workers? health and to preserve economic productivity.
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