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On-Demand Webinar

Global Understanding of Heat Stress and

Heat-Related Illness for Workers and Communities

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This on-demand presentation provides a unique perspective of working in hot working indoor and outdoor environments and how to measure the physiological strain based the metabolic heat load of various work tasks and hot work environments along with a detailed presentation on how to measure and monitor environmental and personal exposure. 

You will:

• Understand relationship between climate change, heat stress modeling and global incidence of workplace heat-related disorders based on case studies and investigations.
• Learn about worker and community populations affected by heat stress and strain which drive socioeconomic effects on worker memory, learning and cognition, fatigue, adverse behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, social violence, and suicide. 
• Know when and how to evaluate worker exposures for heat stress from medical exams, metabolic heat loads, work tasks, exposure adjustments from selection and use of PPE to data mining, predictive analytics and real-time monitoring to evaluate the work environment and individual worker risk susceptibility.
• Learn about heat island effects, sprawl, population density and progression of global warming on the impact on psychosocial aspects of everyday life in both urban and rural communities.
• Review the medical and workplace intervention strategies using a hierarchy of controls to protect workers and reduce the risk of heat-related illness

Presenter:

Bernard Fontaine, Jr., CIH, CSP, FAIHA 

Mr. Fontaine has over 46 years professional and business experience in regulatory compliance, insurance, national defense, environmental services, and consulting.