Personal Protective Clothing Research Articles

Recent Developments in Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment

Recent Developments in Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment

Constraints Associated With Pesticide Safety Measures Adoption Among Users In Oil Palm Farms In Edo, Delta And Ondo States, Nigeria

Safety of farmers is basic to the realization of food security and agricultural transformation in developing countries globally. Most farming activities predispose farmers, non-farmers and farming communities to health hazards because some users of these hazardous substances deliberately refuse to observe necessary precautionary measures. This study assessed constraints associated with pesticide safety measures adoption among users of pesticides in oil palm farms in Edo, Delta and Ondo States. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 268 respondents. Questionnaire was used to collect primary data analyzed for this study using frequency counts, percentages, and means while Kruskal-Wallis test was used to examine the relationships between the response and predictor variables of the study. Results showed that about 95% of the respondents adopted the 28 identified pesticide safety measures. Nine constraints to pesticide users’ adoption of pesticide safety measures were identified by respondents. Inconveniences of personal protective clothing on users (=2.28), some pesticide safety measures are dangerous to man ( =2.16), and lack of money to buy protective equipment ( =2.05) were found to be serious constraints to adoption of safety measures. There was a significant difference in constraints to adoption among pesticide users in oil palm farms in the surveyed States (H= 9.524, P<0.05). It is recommended that safety measures should be included in agricultural messages disseminated to farmers especially those that use pesticides. Key Words: Constraints, Pesticide, Safety Measures, Oil Palm, Adoption

Energy cost of loads carried on the head, hands, or feet.

Energy cost of loads carried on the head, hands, or feet.

Peripheral involvement in thermoregulatory response to an imposed heat debt in man.

ArticlePeripheral involvement in thermoregulatory response to an imposed heat debt in man.E R Nadel, and S M HorvathE R Nadel, and S M HorvathPublished Online:01 Oct 1969https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1969.27.4.484MoreSectionsPDF (1 MB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailWeChat Previous Back to Top Next Download PDF FiguresReferencesRelatedInformationCited BySocially constructed or physiologically informed? Placing humans at the core of understanding cooling needsEnergy Research & Social Science, Vol. 77Physiological interactions with personal-protective clothing, physically demanding work and global warming: An Asia-Pacific perspectiveJournal of Thermal Biology, Vol. 97Shivering30 October 2018The role of fluid temperature and form on endurance performance in the heat6 May 2015 | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, Vol. 25Considerations for the measurement of core, skin and mean body temperaturesJournal of Thermal Biology, Vol. 46Cold pleasure. Why we like ice drinks, ice-lollies and ice creamAppetite, Vol. 71Keeping Your CoolSports Medicine, Vol. 42, No. 2The influence of serial feeding of drinks at different temperatures on thermoregulatory responses during cyclingJournal of Sports Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 6The influence of drink temperature on thermoregulatory responses during prolonged exercise in a moderate environmentJournal of Sports Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 9Comparison of shivering in man exposed to cold in water and in airPfl�gers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, Vol. 365, No. 2-3CORRELATIONS OF NEURAL ACTIVITY AND THERMAL SENSATION IN MANCoding of steady and transient temperatures by cutaneous ‘cold” fibers serving the hand of monkeysBrain Research, Vol. 98, No. 3Der einflu� eines zentralen Reizes (thermische Anregung) auf die Schwei�aktivit�t nach lokaler Applikation von Pilocarpin und AdrenalinArchiv f�r Dermatologische Forschung, Vol. 245, No. 4Computer simulation of human temperature control18 August 2016 | SIMULATION, Vol. 15, No. 5Comparison of tympanic membrane and deep body temperatures in manLife Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 15 More from this issue > Volume 27Issue 4October 1969Pages 484-8 https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1969.27.4.484PubMed5822556History Published online 1 October 1969 Published in print 1 October 1969 Metrics

Some measures of electrodermal activity and their relationships as affected by varied temperatures

Construction workers are at a high risk of exposure to excessive heat generated by several factors such as intensive physical activities, personal protective clothing, and frequent heat events at construction sites. Previous studies attempted to evaluate the occupational risk of heat stress by concentrating on environmental variables or the self-assessment measures of perceived heat. Despite their potentials, most of these approaches were intrusive, inaccurate, and intermittent. More importantly, they mainly overlooked the disparities in workers' physical and physiological characteristics. To address these limitations, this study proposes a heat-stress risk-assessment process to evaluate workers' bodily responses to heat – heat strain – based on the continuous measurement of their physiological signals. To this end, workers' physiological signals were captured using a wristband-type biosensor. Subsequently, their physiological signals were decontaminated from noises, resampled into an array of informative features, and finally interpreted into distinct states of individuals' heat strain by employing several supervised learning algorithms. To examine the performance of the proposed process, physiological signals were collected from 18 subjects while performing specific construction tasks under three predetermined environmental conditions with a different probability of exposure to heat stress. The analysis results revealed the proposed process could predict the risk of heat strain with more than 92% accuracy, illuminating the potentials of wearable biosensors to continuously assess workers' heat strain. The long-term implications of this study can be capitalized as guidelines to improve systematic evaluation of heat strain and promote workers' occupational safety and well-being through early detection of heat strain at construction sites.