How can we secure the safety of fireman regarding heat stress?
Heatstress Defense
Hospital Corpsman Third Class Kyle Hilden checks the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature at Naval Health Clinic Charleston hourly during the summer months to ensure the most accurate and current heat stress conditions are relayed to base personnel.
Drinking is important
The most important treatment for heat exhaustion is replacing lost fluids by drinking water or a sports drink
Heatstress in sports
It is well known that soccer players are at some time or other subjected to extreme weather conditions. The temperature of the climate the game is played in is all important and will affect body temperature and thus the ability to perform
WBGT index
Relative humidity
Heat index / HUMIDEX
Optional remote sensors
Data logging
More info
TSI QUESTemp 44 | 46
Heat Stress in the workplace
Area measurements
NEN-ISO 7234 WBGT-index
Heat Index and Humidex
Manage work-rest regimes
ISO 7730
Waterless Wet Bulb sensor
Measures body coretemperature
Body monitoring during exercise and heat
Capsule with quartz crystal and telemetric sensor
Transmits current coretemperature to recorder
Sport, industrial, defense, research