Workers are susceptible to the environment that they are working in, both for comfort and for personal safety. Whether a temperature is too hot or too cold can affect workers’ health as well as their ability to perform their jobs safely.
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Our Working at Temperatures training will look at the effects that temperature has on the body and what can be done to prevent worker injuries from temperatures that are too high or too low.
Who Needs Working at Temperatures Training?
All workers and supervisors that work in hot/cold temperatures.
Course Outline
Cold Temperatures
- Indoor & Outdoor workers
- Cold work
- Personal factors
- Heat loss
Effects of Cold Temperatures
- Cold temperature hazards
- Chilblains
- Immersion foot
- Trenchfoot
- Frostnip
- Frostbite
- First aid for frost bite, immersion and trenchfoot
- Hypothermia
- First aid for hypothermia
Limiting and Controlling Cold Injuries
- Maintaining temperature
- Regulations
- Preventing cold exposure issues
- Equipment design
- Surveillance and monitoring
- Emergency procedures
- Training
- Clothing
- Cooling down
Hot Temperatures
- Working in hot temperatures
- Humidity
- Heat tolerance
- Heat stress
- Heat edema
- Heat rashes
- Heat effects
- Heat cramps
- Heat syncope
Effects of Hot Temperatures
- Heat Stoke
- Heat Exhaustion
Limiting and Controlling Heat Injuries
- Heat regulations
- Humidex
- Limiting heat injuries
- Engineering controls
- Heat edema
- Safe work practices
- Acclimatization
- Personal protection
- Training
- Personal choices
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