Experimental activity for use by workers, employers occupational safety and management professionals.

This section shows heat stress risk forecast maps for some non-acclimatized worker profiles developed on the basis of an indicator used in the occupational sector and selected within the project (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, WBGT).

The maps show three-day heat stress risk forecast, at four time intervals during the day: 8:00, 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00 CET.

THE INFORMATION RELATES TO A HEALTHY WORKER, NOT ACCLIMATISED TO HEAT, EXPOSED TO DIRECT SUN OR SHADE AND ENGAGED IN INTENSE OR MODERATE OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.

Moderate physical activity includes:

• Upper limb activities (hammering nails, filing)
• Driving off-road trucks, tractors or construction machinery
• Working with the upper body (pneumatic hammer work, tractor assembly, plastering, intermittent handling of moderately heavy material, weeding, hoeing, picking fruit or vegetables)
• Pushing or pulling light carts or wheelbarrows
• Walking at a moderate speed (3.5 and 5.5 km/h)
• Laying bricks
• Assembling vehicles

Intense physical activity includes:

• Physically intensive upper body activity; carrying heavy material
• Work requiring the use of axes or shovels for shoveling or digging at an intense pace
• Working with a hammer
• Sawing, planing or chiselling hard wood
• Hand mowing, digging
• Walking at a speed between 5.5 and 7.0 km/h
• Pushing or pulling wheelbarrows and barrows with heavy loads
• Arranging concrete blocks
• Repeatedly climbing steps or ladders

In consideration of the typical conditions of the autumn-winter period, the personalized heat risk forecasts for workers are currently suspended and will resume in the
spring 2023.