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Workers Need Better Protections From the Heat
An anonymous reader shares a report: Expect record-breaking temperatures to change the workplace, the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today in a new report. When workers don't have adequate protections from heat stress, their health and productivity...
When workers don't have adequate protections from heat stress, their health and productivity suffer. That means finding ways to adapt in a warming world, and paying close attention to groups that might be more vulnerable than others. [...] More than 2.4 billion people around the world -- 71 percent of the working population -- experience workplace heat stress, according to estimates from the ILO.
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