Heatwaves as an Occupational Hazard: The Impact of Heat and Heatwaves on Workers’ Health, Safety and Wellbeing and on Social Inequalities

Narocki, Claudia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4013353

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“…As a result, it involves significant dangers. It is not an unskilled job, contrary to popular belief (Narocki 2021). Gregory's research (2021) on platform couriers in Edinburgh shows how much couriers feel valueless themselves, do not feel selfemployed and work in hard conditions which cause bodily risks, physical harm, stress, and anxiety.…”

Section: Food Delivery Workersmentioning

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Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy

Demir

2024

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This article describes a new concept called the errand economy. It examines the dark side of the platform economy and the gig economy and makes a valuable contribution to the field. The concepts, especially for liberal scholars, hide the negative impact of platform capitalism on production relationships and the working class by emphasising digital technologies and piecework. The errand economy, however, especially highlights the degradation of labour, regardless of its qualifications, alongside processes such as flexibilisation, precarisation, and informalisation. That is because, under the conditions of the errand economy, platforms treat all types of work as cheap, worthless and degraded errands. The main mission of the platform economy is to end employment by using the discourse of flexibility and entrepreneurship and to transform all employees into errand workers by classifying them as self-employed. For this reason, the article proposes to use the concept of the errand economy together with the platform economy, which refers to digital infrastructures, and the gig economy, which emphasises the piecework.

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Section: Food Delivery Workersmentioning

confidence: 85%

Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy

Demir

2024

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“…Thus, people with higher income have the capacity to afford such adaptation options. Several studies have underscored the importance of economic factors for adaptation [6,[26][27][28][29]. [30] also indicate that low-income groups have rather low adaptive capacities due to sociodemographic factors and experience disproportionately high temperatures and limited access to refuge from extreme heat.…”

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Exploring the link between socio-economic and physical structure in cities to inform heat adaptation options: the case of Stuttgart

Wendnagel‐Beck

Jamshed

Iqbal

et al. 2023

2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)

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Heat stress is recognised among the key risks in the context of climate and societal changes. This study aims to explore the link between socio-economic and spatial factors contributing to the effects of extreme heat events in the city of Stuttgart. The paper presents some findings of the Citizens' Survey 2021 in the city of Stuttgart on some key variables such as experience with heat stress and access to green spaces. The analysis further gives special emphasis to relationships between these variables and socio-economic factors e.g. income levels with heat-related adaptation options. The survey data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and then exported to ArcGIS pro and linked with geographical data (shapefiles) of the city districts. The study provides new insights into the spatial variability of heat experience as well as the socio-economic profile that needs to be targeted for future heat adaptation planning in the city.

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“…Indirect psychological and social burdens including stress, anxiety, and depression can also be health consequences [7]. Heat also leads to a reduction in the ability to work and an increase in injury-related mortality and morbidity [8]. Heat stress appears at outdoor and indoor workplaces and can be caused by natural or artificial factors, or a combination of both [3].…”

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“…In the next decades, 2015-like heat waves are expected to take place nearly every second summer in southwest Germany, according to the projections of regional climate models [10]. This causes new challenges for the health, safety, and wellbeing of workers [8,12]. Raising awareness of heat stress can be a simple way to promote behavioral changes in those affected [7].…”

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“…Statistical information on the frequency of thermal comfort levels at different workplaces could also help to maintain occupational health standards and form room-specific adaptation measures. Possible adaptation measures to reduce heat stress at workplaces can be artificial air cooling by the installation of additional air-conditioning devices, exterior solar shading, shifting the time of day for working, wearing ventilated clothes, taking more breaks, increasing forced ventilation, or changing the industrial structure, for example, by the mechanization of human work [8,23,24]. However, there are no affordable systems available to continuously monitor different workplaces in companies and communicate heat stress to employees.…”

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A Low-Cost Sensor Network for Real-Time Thermal Stress Monitoring and Communication in Occupational Contexts

Sulzer

Christen

Matzarakis

2022

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The MoBiMet (Mobile Biometeorology System) is a low-cost device for thermal comfort monitoring, designed for long-term deployment in indoor or semi-outdoor occupational contexts. It measures air temperature, humidity, globe temperature, brightness temperature, light intensity, and wind, and is capable of calculating thermal indices (e.g., physiologically equivalent temperature (PET)) on site. It visualizes its data on an integrated display and sends them continuously to a server, where web-based visualizations are available in real-time. Data from many MoBiMets deployed in real occupational settings were used to demonstrate their suitability for large-scale and continued monitoring of thermal comfort in various contexts (industrial, commercial, offices, agricultural). This article describes the design and the performance of the MoBiMet. Alternative methods to determine mean radiant temperature (Tmrt) using a light intensity sensor and a contactless infrared thermopile were tested next to a custom-made black globe thermometer. Performance was assessed by comparing the MoBiMet to an independent mid-cost thermal comfort sensor. It was demonstrated that networked MoBiMets can detect differences of thermal comfort at different workplaces within the same building, and between workplaces in different companies in the same city. The MoBiMets can capture spatial and temporal differences of thermal comfort over the diurnal cycle, as demonstrated in offices with different stories and with different solar irradiances in a single high-rise building. The strongest sustained heat stress was recorded at industrial workplaces with heavy machinery.

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Heatwaves as an Occupational Hazard: The Impact of Heat and Heatwaves on Workers’ Health, Safety and Wellbeing and on Social Inequalities

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy

Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy

Exploring the link between socio-economic and physical structure in cities to inform heat adaptation options: the case of Stuttgart

A Low-Cost Sensor Network for Real-Time Thermal Stress Monitoring and Communication in Occupational Contexts

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