Physiological monitoring of occupational heat strain

Hexoskin(CarréTechnologies Inc.)是监测日常生活生理反应的智能服装领域的世界领先者。虽然它也被用来监测职业环境中的个人，但它作为监测工人热应激的功能工具仍有待开发。职业热压力对工人的健康和安全构成越来越大的威胁，因为它可能导致核心温度的潜在危险上升。各省劳动法要求用人单位采取一切合理的预防措施来保护工人。这包括制定热环境政策和程序，以监测和保护工人。虽然对暴露在高温环境中的工人进行生理监测是一种安全而简单的方法，以确保工人不会受到与高温有关的伤害，但它的使用一直非常有限。直到最近，能够提供个人生理反应的多参数测量的技术都是有限的和不可靠的。然而，Hexoskin可穿戴身体测量背心在工程上引起了轰动，因为它将智能服装带到了一个新的复杂水平，允许对个人的生理反应进行可靠和准确的多参数监测。然而，必须努力扩大Hexoskin身体指标背心作为监测工人热应激的可靠记录工具的适用性。为了实现这一目标，我们将评估系统传感器的响应性及其作为工业相关工作条件下热应变的可靠指标的集成记录。此外，我们将在我们世界上唯一的全身量热仪中评估背心的热传递能力，以提供评估背心隔热效果的黄金标准数据。通过改进其背心的功能，Hexoskin有望通过夺取新的新兴市场份额而在经济上受益。纳入对工人的监测也将有助于减少工伤，例如与高温暴露有关的工伤，提高生产率，减少缺勤和因病损失的天数，以及减轻我们医疗保健系统的负担。

Hexoskin (Carré Technologies Inc.) is the world leader in smart clothing for the monitoring of physiologicresponse of general daily living. While it is also used for the monitoring of individuals in occupational settings,its use as a functional tool for the monitoring of heat stress in workers remains to be developed. Occupationalheat stress represents a growing threat to worker health and safety as it can lead to potentially dangerousincreases in core temperature. Provincial labor laws mandate that employers take every precaution reasonablefor the protection of the worker. This includes developing hot environment policies and procedures to monitorand protect workers. While the physiological monitoring of workers exposed to hot environments has beenencouraged as a safe and simple method to ensure that workers will not incur heat-related injuries, its use hasbeen very limited. Until recently the technologies capable of providing multi-parameter measurements of thephysiologic responses of individuals were limited and unreliable. However, the Hexoskin wearable bodymetrics vest is an engineering sensation as it brings smart clothing to a new level of sophistication that permitsreliable and accurate multi-parameter monitoring of an individual's physiologic responses. However, workmust be done to expand the applicability of the Hexoskin body metrics vest as a dependable recording tool forthe monitoring of heat stress in workers. To achieve this objective, we will evaluate the responsiveness of thesystem sensors and their integrated recording as a reliable indicator of thermal strain under industry-relevantwork conditions. Further, we will assess the heat transfer capacity of the vest in our world's only whole-bodycalorimeter in order to provide gold-standard data from which to assess the thermal insulative effects of thevest. By improving the functionality of its vest, Hexoskin is poised to benefit economically by capturing a newand emerging market share. The incorporation of monitoring of workers will also help industry reducework-related injuries such as those associated with heat exposure increasing productivity, reducing absenteeismand lost days to due illness as well as reduce the burden on our health care system.