Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of workers dying or becoming disabled from labouring in extreme heat, an international conference has been told
The US administration promised new rules in 2021 after a deadly heatwave and the White House said that "heat is the nation's leading weather-related killer". Nothing has been produced yet, however. / Photo: Reuters Archive
"Science tells us that all countries can do more," the International Labour Organisation's regional chief for Arab countries, Ruba Jaradat, told the Occupational Heat Stress conference, which focused on climate change and how rising temperatures threaten workers' health. There is no international standard for temperatures for outdoor working, but climate change has forced new scrutiny.
Extreme heat and sun radiation unleash heatstroke, kidney, heart and lung diseases and raise cancer rates, according to researchers. Taiwanese researchers warned in a 2020 study that kidney disease from extreme heat"may represent one of the first epidemics due to global warming".
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