The Use of Personal Protective Equipment
Finger Temperatures and Thermal Sensation of Workers’ Exposure to Cold Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15463259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adriana Seára Tirloni (0000-0003-0844-3351, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, corresponding author), Diogo Cunha dos Reis (0000-0002-0325-8360, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Natália Fonseca Dias (0000-0001-9366-4735, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Antonio Renato Pereira Moro (0000-0002-1796-8830, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2583-2583 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph15112583 |
| PMID | 30463195 |
| OpenAlex | W2900873635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
This study analyzed the finger temperatures of poultry slaughterhouse workers and its association with personal and organizational variables, bodily discomfort perception, and cold thermal sensation. The study included 143 poultry slaughterhouse workers. A thermograph was used to measure finger temperature and an interview to collect worker data. There were two groups: workers who used a tool and those without. The binary logistic regression, Friedman and Wilcoxon tests were used ( p ≤ 0.05). Most workers presented at least one finger with an average temperature ≤15 °C (66.4%) and ≤24 °C (99.3%), perceived their cold hands, and wore three overlapping gloves (57.3%). There were no associations between finger temperatures (≤15 °C) and the analyzed variables. The chance of feeling cold for a worker who used a tool was greater than for a worker who did not (OR = 3.19, 95% CI 1.46; 6.94). There was a difference between the finger temperatures of each hand on both surfaces and the analyzed groups ( p p < 0.05). The use of several overlapping gloves was not sufficient to promote thermal insulation of the hands
Audiology · Feeling · Index finger · Little finger · Logistic regression · Middle finger · Perception · Personal protective equipment · Sensation · Skin temperature · Statistics · Thermal comfort · Thermal sensation · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Infrared Thermography in Medicine · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Thermoregulation and physiological responses · Anatomy · Biomedical Engineering · Internal Medicine · Surgery
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| Citations per year | 0.83 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |