| Document ID (ISN) | 103792 |
| CIS number |
05-205 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1877-7856 - Encyclopédie médico-chirurgicale |
| Year |
2004 |
| Convention or series no. |
Fascicule 16400 A 10, 3-2004
|
| Author(s) |
Bittel J., Savourey G. |
| Title |
Cold working conditions |
| Original title |
Travail au froid [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Toxicologie-Pathologie professionnelle, 3rd Quarter 2004, No.144, 10p. 37 ref. |
| Abstract |
Severe accidents due to cold working environments can often be avoided by proper preventive efforts. However, routine work in cold environments may present hazards of greater or lesser severity, both outdoors and in industrial premises. The main local effects of exposure to cold are frostbite and peripheral non-freezing cold injury neuropathies; less severe disorders or pathologies include local pain, cold urticaria, chilblains, arcocyanosis and numbness of the extremities. The main general effect is hypothermia, which causes loss of consciousness and coma, possibly leading to death. The key elements for preventing accidents due to exposure to cold include keeping physically fit, following a suitable diet, developing adaptive capabilities, wearing appropriate protective clothing and implementing suitable methods of work organization. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
France; thermal discomfort; cold workplaces; health hazards; risk factors; protection against cold |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
protective clothing; adaptation of man to work; work organization; outdoor work; state of health; coma; safety guides; urticaria; diseases of peripheral nervous system; frostbite; paraesthesia; encyclopaedia; whole-body cooling |
| Document type |
F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards |
| Country / State or Province | France |
| Subject(s) |
Heating, ventilation and climate
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Physical hazards
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Heat and cold
|
