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Symptoms
Risk & Prevention
Physiology of Heat Stress
Misc.
100
The frequency of these is higher in hot environments.
What are accidents or incidents?
100
Although not an immediate threat to life, if not properly treated, could evolve into heat stroke.
What is heat exhaustion
100

Age, weight, degree of physical fitness.  Use of substances, medication, previous heat illness, type of clothing.

What are personal causal factors for heat stress?

100
The internal tempature at which the body tries to maintain both during rest and activity.
What is 98.6 degrees?
100

Working at different intensity levels is one way to reduce heat strain.  Examples of Heavy work include.

Climbing, installing utilities, using hand tools for extended periods of time.

200
When the body overheats....This organ can "shut down"
What are the kidneys?
200
Known as symptoms of heat exhaustion.
What are - Skin is clammy and moist - Extreme weakness or fatigue - Nausea - Headache - Complexion pale or flushed - Body temperature normal or slightly elevated
200
Over 213 have died of heat strokes in cars since 1998
What are children?
200
The amount of water a human body can lose in an hour when working hard.
What is 1-2 liters?
200

Job-Related, Environmental, and Personal

What is the 3 main contributing factors to Heat Stress.

300
This causes more human deaths than tornados, hurricanes, lightning, or flooding combined?
What is heat?
300
Known heat stroke symtoms (get 4)
What is Heat Stroke Symptoms. - Stop Sweating - Rapid Pulse - Mental Confusion - Loss of Consciousness - Convulsions - Body Temperature > 105 - Hot, dry skin - Can die unless treated promptly
300

When working continuously outdoors in temperatures above 900F for 2 or more hours, workers should monitor their body's reaction to the heat and take a rest break every____hour.

15 minutes every hour.  More frequent with PPE or other risk factors.

300
This is the most important thing a human body needs next to water when facing heat exhaustion.
What is sodium? (salt)
300

Also knowns as apparent temperature, this is what the temperature FEELS like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with air temperature.

What is heat index.

400

Water, Rest and this are important when taking a break from the heat.

Shade, or somewhere to cool off

400
This is the most dangerous sympton of heat exhausion, especially in people operating equipment or vehicles.
What is fainting (syncope)?
400
***Daily Double*** Known as the newest "at risk group"
What are athletes?
400
When a body sweats it begins to lack this substance, prohibiting the body to restore oxygen to muscles and carry excess heat to the skin.
What is blood?
400
The net head load to which a worker may be exposed from the combined contribution of metabolic heat, environmental factors and clothing requirements.
What is heat stress?
500
Also known as environmental risk factors of heat stress.
What is temperature, wind velocity, humidity, and radiant heat.
500

104 0F 

What is the body temperature at which Heat Stroke can occur.

500
This beverage was first developed in 1965 by a team of researchers at University of Florida
What is Gatorade?
500
At this air temperature radiation of heat basically stops and the body is almost totally reliant on evaporation for heat loss.
What is 95 degrees?
500
***Daily Double*** The most widely used index for heat stress.
What is Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) Index?