Risk of kidney stone among workers exposed to high occupational heat stress - A case study from southern Indian steel industry

Venugopal, Vidhya; Latha, P.K.; Shanmugam, R.; Krishnamoorthy, Manikandan; Srinivasan, K; Perumal, Kumaravel; Chinnadurai, Jeremiah

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137619

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“…The prevalence of kidney stones in the southeastern United States is nearly 50% higher than that in the cooler northeast, creating a “rock belt” [ 30 , 31 ]. Some studies on specific workers who live in high temperature environments for long periods of time have shown that high temperatures significantly increase the risk of kidney stones [ 32 , 33 ].…”

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High ambient temperature increases the number of emergency visits for upper urolithiasis in Hefei City, China

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High ambient temperature increases the number of emergency visits for upper urolithiasis in Hefei City, China

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“…Aside from acute heat-related problems (e.g., exhaustion/fatigue, dehydration, heat-cramps, psychomotor performance-loss), chronic health issues, that is, immunological suppressions, heatstroke, renal anomalies risk, and damage issues at the sub-cellular level (DNA damage) are also frequent among workers subjected to hot working temperatures (Jafari et al, 2020;Kassim et al, 2019;Venugopal et al, 2019Venugopal et al, , 2020. In developing countries, insufficient prevention and control strategies negatively affect the prevailing circumstances, thereby deteriorating workers' wellbeing and potential productivity (Kassim et al, 2019;Nunfam et al, 2019;Varghese et al, 2018).…”

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Analyzing environmental heat stress under changing work conditions: A sensor‐based monitoring solution

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Hot stressful work conditions impose subsequent suppressions on workers' wellbeing resulting in heat-related morbidities, reduced productivity, and economic burden. Heat stress evaluations require costly monitoring tools that may be uneconomical while monitoring multiple locations simultaneously under the targeted workplace, especially in industrially developing countries. With recent technological

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“…suppressions (decrease in white blood cell counts and lymphocyte levels weakens the user immune system), and risk of renal anomalies (i.e., kidney stones, urethral calculi) are also prevalent among users exposed to high-heat work environments (Venugopal et al 2019(Venugopal et al , 2020Jafari et al 2020).…”

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Analyzing occupational heat stress using sensor-based monitoring: a wearable approach with environmental ergonomics perspective

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2022

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Occupational heat stress could impose a greater risk of heat-related morbidities among the exposed users, declining their work productivity and contributing to a financial burden. This necessitate the implementation of adequate preventive measures and control policies to improve the users' well-being and productive capacity. The emergence of modernistic sensors gives rise to workplace heat stress monitoring at a substantially lower cost than expensive conventional equipment. Present work unveils the productive role of sensor-based safety helmet, which could monitor the environmental variables, heat stress indices, and users' physiological variables as an indicator of heat strain. The proposed safety helmet was tested under three different work environments with users' engaged in specific work activities. Notable variations were perceived among the measured data under respective work conditions and physical activity performed. Higher heat risk exposures were attributable to the outdoor condition compared to indoor work conditions. For wet bulb globe temperature index, strong association (p-value < 0.01) was observed with fighter index of thermal stress (R 2 -value = 0.959) followed by discomfort index (R 2value = 0.899) and heat index (R 2 -value = 0.867). Results revealed a rise in measured physiological parameters under the heavy workload activity (shoveling task; outdoor location) followed by hacksaw cutting task (indoor location), while least values were associated with light workload activity (drilling task; indoor location). The proposed design intervention could be considered an effective site-specific solution for monitoring heat stress exposures and keeping exposed users well aware of the prevalent thermal work conditions at the individual level.

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Risk of kidney stone among workers exposed to high occupational heat stress - A case study from southern Indian steel industry

Cited by 34 publications

References 48 publications

High ambient temperature increases the number of emergency visits for upper urolithiasis in Hefei City, China

High ambient temperature increases the number of emergency visits for upper urolithiasis in Hefei City, China

Analyzing environmental heat stress under changing work conditions: A sensor‐based monitoring solution

Analyzing occupational heat stress using sensor-based monitoring: a wearable approach with environmental ergonomics perspective

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