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Article: Controlling heat stress.(compost & raw materials)
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- Mushroom News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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When the body becomes overheated, less blood goes to the active muscles, the brain and other internal organs. Workers get weaker, become tired sooner, may be less alert, lack good judgment and perform their jobs poorly. As strain from heat becomes more severe, there can be a rapid rise in body temperature and heart rate. Workers may not realize that this is happening because there is no pain.
Last year Cal-OSHA, a California-specific regulating body, implemented emergency heat stress regulations that went into effect last August, following a string of deaths involving farm workers and other outdoor laborers during last summer's heat wave. Because of increased ...