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Mine Workers, Heat Related Illnesses, And The Role Of The Occupational Health Nurse, Kim Bourne
Mine Workers, Heat Related Illnesses, And The Role Of The Occupational Health Nurse, Kim Bourne
Nursing Faculty Publications
Across the United States, workers in m any occupations face weather and related extreme conditions on a daily basis. Hot weather and manual labor increase a person’s core body temperature. This heat gain comes from a combination of environmental and self-generated (or internal) heat. Environmental heat is both weather related and man-made, and internal heat is produced from metabolic processes (Xiang, Bi, Pisaniello, & Hansen, 2014). But, it’s just not the heat that causes problems; it’s the humidity, too. E ach year thousands of workers suffer heat related illnesses as a result of becoming overheated. Between June, 2013 and July, …