Indoor radon in dwellings an increment to the occupational exposure in Portuguese thermal spas

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2017-04-05

Authors

Ana Sofia Silva (Author) Other; Maria de Lurdes Dinis (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Occupational safety and hygiene SHO2017: proceedings book

Pages: 411-414

ISBN: 978-1-138-05761-6

Publisher: Sociedade Portuguesa de Segurança e Higiene Ocupacionais

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering

Other information

DOI: 10.1201/9781315164809-76

Abstract (EN): The purposes of this study is to evaluate the thermal conditions in a hospital setting and assess quantitatively the thermal comfort variables. Then, it will be compared the values obtained with the ones regulated by law, and it will be evaluated how health professionals—doctors and nurses. The target population is the workers of four areas of hospitalisation. Firstly, it was evaluated the quantitative data of Ta, Tr, Va and RH, as well as the metabolic rate by activity and the clothing thermal resistance. Secondly, questionnaires were made to the workers. This study showed that there were statistically significant associations when comparing health professionals wellbeing perception in that moment and the type of thermal exposure (sensation). However, when this data was associated in function of the health professionals, it was determined that their opinion varies, not always agreeing with the results from thermal exposition.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: A.S. Silva, M.L. Dinis (2017). - Indoor radon in dwellings an increment to the occupational exposure in Portuguese thermal spas- Book chapter in: Occupational Safety and Hygiene V, Selected Contributions From the International Symposium Occupational Safety and Hygiene (Sho 2017), Guimarães, Portugal, 10-11 April 2017, Edited by Pedro M. Arezes, João Santos Baptista, Mónica P. Barroso, Paula Carneiro, Patrício Cordeiro, Rui B. Melo, A. Sérgio Miguel and Gonçalo Perestrelo, CRC Press/Balkema P.O. Box 11320, 2301 EH Leiden, The Netherlands CRC Press/Balkema 2017, Pages 411-414, ISBN: 978-1-138-05761-6, eBook ISBN: 978-1-351-67524-6, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315164809-76.

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