Journal
MINING METALLURGY & EXPLORATION
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 497-508Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s42461-020-00324-4
Keywords
Heat; Hot environments; Underground mines; Heat stress; Heat strain; Heat indices
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Balancing heat production and loss is crucial for human beings to adapt to their work environment. Maintaining a proper core body temperature can be challenging in high heat-producing workplaces like hot underground mines. Therefore, compliance with related indices and standards is necessary to ensure worker safety.
Interactions between human beings and their work environment require the body to regulate its temperature by balancing heat production and loss. Comfortable environmental conditions are crucial for keeping workers safe and healthy and to maintain a suitable level of productivity. However, achieving a proper core body temperature may become challenging under different conditions, especially in high heat-generating workplaces such as hot underground mines. Because hot underground mines have the potential to expose workers to heat stress, compliance with standardized and regulated indices and criteria is distinctly required. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the current research on heat stress and strain in hot underground mines, collected from published and specialized literature. General definitions, statistics of heat-related accidents in mining, overview of the indices, standards, and recommendations for heat stress are provided herein.
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