Citation

Dahlström G. Arctic Med. Res. 1992; 51(Suppl 7): 92-93.

Affiliation

Swedish Foundation for Occupational Health, Kiruna.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1285826

Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of employees work in the cold. The problems concerning cold are, to a great extent, well known. There are also good suggestions about how to deal with these problems. This project deals with: Cold stress, as an important risk factor for medical illness; the problems concerning clothing and equipment; how to change the snowmobile into a modern low risk piece of equipment: international standardization usable in the field; different approaches for information to reach and be used by the workers and their chiefs.

Language: en