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The significant role of health surveillance in the occupational heat stress assessment

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In order to address the heat stress hazard, the worker health surveillance makes a difference by providing information about individual factor, feedback, and evidence about efficacy of preventive measures and activities carried out through the risk assessment process, at individual and group levels. Every technical, procedural, or organizational measures could be ineffective without taking into account the results provided by health surveillance.

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  1. Health Service Department, State Police, Ministry of Interior, Via Umberto Cagni, 21, 20162, Milan, Italy

    Francesco Chirico

  2. Occupational Health Section of the Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo F. Vito 1, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Chirico & Nicola Magnavita

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Chirico, F., Magnavita, N. The significant role of health surveillance in the occupational heat stress assessment. Int J Biometeorol 63, 193–194 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-018-1651-y

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