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A HARDCOPY guidebook provides thermal stress guidance that has been developed for the Australian environment.
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This 2013 guideline document presents thermal stress guidance that has been developed for the Australian environment. The aim of the document is to provide an emphasis on guidance rather than the establishment of a formal standard. This guidance is not intended to be a definitive document on the subject of heat stress but will provide enough information and further references for employees and employers to manage heat stress in the4 Australian workplace.
In the first part, this guidance document provides a brief summary of the approach for non-technical backgrounds. The second part is a more comprehensive description leading to a single location for those needing to assess and manage heat on the work place.
Contents Provides some definitions around heat stress and describes a three-step approach for managing it. The first step is risk assessment, which uses a flow chart to allow users to easily follow the process to establish which one of three levels of assessment is required:
Detail is provided on the types of semi-quantitative analyses that can take place, discussing in particular, the following methods:
Further detail is provided on the types of quantitative, Level 3 analyses that can assess heat strain.
Following on from the assessments this Guidance document indicates the comparison criteria that can be used to determine the level of risk and, subsequently, the heat stress management and controls that can be used to mitigate the identified risks.
This document includes:
PDF version also available (please see Publications listing).
Paperback
November 2013
Ross Di Corleto, Ian Firth & Joseph Maté
AIOH
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