Fred Saleh – författare

Climate change has become the primary serious human and environmental threat of the 21st century and, with associated variability, it presents enormous potential to affect workers' safety and health. This book delivers vital information regarding climate change adaptation measures and workplace health and safety interventions across diverse sectors.This edited book delivers relevant information for specialists and academics to compare good practices across different sectors to help improve workplace safety and health as climate change factors continue to impact indoor and outdoor workplaces. In addition, it highlights the impact of extreme heat exposure and risk of climate-related chronic diseases, which could impact productivity, occupational safety adherence and wellbeing of workers. It also covers the impact of reduced work capacity due to climate change variability on the jobs undertaken. Comprehensive, up-to-date and including the latest references and cutting-edge case studies, this book reveals to the reader how to adapt accordingly for the impacts of climate change and to understand what the key issues are likely to be.Climate Change Impacts on Workplace Health and Safety: Adaptations, Interventions and Responses is a sobering but essential read for academics, researchers and professionals in health, safety, and environment (HSE) roles, occupational health engineering and environmental health specialists. Its appeal will extend to climate change scientists, epidemiologists and business and management professionals.

Climate change has become the primary serious human and environmental threat of the 21st century and, with associated variability, it presents enormous potential to affect workers' safety and health. This book delivers vital information regarding climate change adaptation measures and workplace health and safety interventions across diverse sectors.This edited book delivers relevant information for specialists and academics to compare good practices across different sectors to help improve workplace safety and health as climate change factors continue to impact indoor and outdoor workplaces. In addition, it highlights the impact of extreme heat exposure and risk of climate-related chronic diseases, which could impact productivity, occupational safety adherence and wellbeing of workers. It also covers the impact of reduced work capacity due to climate change variability on the jobs undertaken. Comprehensive, up-to-date and including the latest references and cutting-edge case studies, this book reveals to the reader how to adapt accordingly for the impacts of climate change and to understand what the key issues are likely to be.Climate Change Impacts on Workplace Health and Safety: Adaptations, Interventions and Responses is a sobering but essential read for academics, researchers and professionals in health, safety, and environment (HSE) roles, occupational health engineering and environmental health specialists. Its appeal will extend to climate change scientists, epidemiologists and business and management professionals.