Organisers:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massey University, Centre for Public Health Research, Wellington, Dave McLean<\/p>\nICOH Scientific Committee on Thermal Factors, Chair: Jason Lee, Singapore<\/p>\n
European HEATSHIELD project, Promot. Mgr: Tord Kjellstrom, Sweden\/NZ<\/p>\n
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Aims:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 – to start a process for a scientific consensus report<\/u> on methods for occupational health and productivity assessment of workplace heat as a result of climate change<\/p>\n– to identify gaps in the available evidence, approaches to filling the gaps and initiatives for international cooperation to fill the gaps<\/p>\n
– to publish a joint report by 2021 providing a comprehensive scientific basis for the Heat at Work issue, which can be a useful complement to more practical advisories produced by international agencies (one report from ILO will be published in 2019, and another is planned by WHO\/WMO in 2020).<\/p>\n
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Follow-up process:<\/strong> \u00a0After this Wellington event, there will be opportunities to continue the discussions and writing at meetings in 2019 in Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc……<\/p>\nThe annual main HEATSHIELD meeting in 2020 could be the event for review of final version of the scientific report.<\/p>\n
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Report content and structure:<\/strong><\/p>\nHeat impact assessments of occupational health and productivity have a series of components listed below. The main aim is to identify gaps in the needed evidence for quantitative assessments, and to find ways to fill these gaps in a consensus manner. The report will contribute to robust analysis of future health and economic impacts in any part of the world.<\/p>\n
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\n- Quantifying climate change related heat exposure levels of relevance to labour impacts<\/li>\n
- Describing the range of health effects and related well-being and social effects<\/li>\n
- Exposure-response relationships for each effect<\/li>\n
- Risk assessment analysis methods; Individual effects vs Population impacts<\/li>\n
- Reduced impacts and economic gains from Adaptation and Mitigation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Potential partners:<\/strong>\u00a0 GHHIN, IPCC, Lancet Countdown, EPICOH, ICOH\/SCTF, ISIMIP, HEATSHIELD, ISBiomet, ISO Committee, ACGHI, ILO, WHO, WMO, IOM, UNEP, EU OSHA, EU EPA, WB\/ADB, Urban heat soc, Canada Work-heat,\u00a0 etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post-conference meeting Special Meeting on 3 May 2019 Occupational health and productivity impacts of workplace heat in relation to global and local climate change Place:\u00a0 Wellington, New Zealand Time:\u00a0 3 May 2019, 09.00 – 16.00, the day after the end of EPICOH2019 EPICOH2019 (29.4 – 2.5) =\u00a0 annual global conference on occupational epidemiology…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/epicoh2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}