Protecting workers in a changing climate - ENBEL educational videos 5/6

The ENBEL project, that brings together climate change and health researchers, has made a series of five short educational videos to give more information on how climate change effects our health and what we can do about it.

Outdoor workers are vulnerable to climate change. Working outside in extreme heat has consequences for the workers’ health and for the companies that employ them. In this educational video (5/6), CEO and founder of La Isla Network, Jason Glaser, talks about why we should be concerned about workers in a warming climate, what happens to these workers and their health and what we can do about it. Glaser explains key prevention and protection measures that can be implemented that has not only improved the health of the workers, but also proven to be economically beneficial for the employer.

The topics covered by the other four educational videos are air pollution, vulnerable groups and minorities, costs of climate change, heat health action plans and the CHANCE network for climate change and health in Africa.

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Websites:

https://www.enbel-project.eu/news-page/educational-videos

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The ENBEL project supports EU policy making by bringing together leaders in climate change and health research through a network of major international health and climate research projects under the Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action (CRA), Societal Challenge 1 and 5 of EU’s Horizon 2020, and other national and international funding schemes. This network develops evidence syntheses and co-produces with stakeholders a series of tailor-made knowledge products. The key thematic focus is on environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires) and climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with specific attention given to high-risk groups and populations.

Published in Climate-ADAPT Jan 16, 2024 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 4, 2024