Heat Stress

Improving the resilience of workers to heat stress in Da Nang, Vietnam

Stories from the field Author: Lisa Buggy Posted on March 10, 2016

The World Meteorological Organization has announced that 2015 was the hottest year on record. This would come as no surprise to a number of countries in the South and South East Asia region that felt the full brunt of extreme temperatures and intense heat waves this past year. Most prominently, India and Pakistan experienced some of the deadliest heat waves on record.

Arfiana Khairunnisa
March 10, 2016 . 5 min read

Heat stress prevention at work place

COHED’s Heat Stress Prevention at the Workplace video was developed by the project team to provide an overview of heat stress, the signs and symptoms of heat illness and outline simple preventive measures for workers to undertake. It has been utilised in training workshops with construction and manufacturing workers and copies were disseminated at the Vietnam Pavilion as part of UNFCCC COP 21 in December 2015.

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