Physiological monitoring of occupational heat strain

Hexoskin（Carré Technologies Inc.）是全球领先的智能服装，用于监测一般日常生活的生理反应。虽然它也被用于监测个人在职业环境中，它的使用作为一个功能工具，监测工人的热应激仍有待开发。职业热应激对工人的健康和安全构成了越来越大的威胁，因为它可能导致核心温度的潜在严重升高。省劳动法要求雇主采取一切合理的预防措施来保护工人。这包括制定高温环境政策和程序，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，可以确保工人不会受到与高温有关的伤害，但其使用非常有限。直到最近的技术能够提供多参数测量的生理反应的个人是有限的和不可靠的.然而，Hexoskin可穿戴人体测量背心是一个工程轰动，因为它把智能服装带到了一个新的复杂水平，它提供了一个可靠和准确的多参数监测个人的生理反应。然而，工作必须做，以扩大适用性的Hexoskin身体指标背心作为一个可靠的记录工具，用于监测工人的热应激。为了实现这一目标，我们将评估这些传感器的响应性及其集成记录，作为工业相关工作条件下热应变的可靠指标。此外，我们将在我们世界上唯一的全身热量计中评估背心的传热能力，以提供黄金标准数据来评估背心的隔热效果。通过改进其背心的功能，Hexoskin准备通过捕获新的和新兴的市场份额在经济上受益。纳入对工人的监测也将有助于工业减少与工作有关的伤害，例如与热暴露有关的伤害，提高生产力，减少缺勤和因疾病损失的天数，以及减轻我们的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.