Hazards of Extreme Temperatures - Excessive heat workplace, whether working in the field or in the building where high temperatures not only cause discomfort but may increase the risk of accidents due to muscle cramps, heat exhaustion, and the worst is death.
Effects of High Temperature Risk to Safety and Health
- Prickly heat: can occur where due to the sweat glands are blocked and consequently accumulated sweat.
- Heat Cramps: usually occurs in the arms, legs and abdomen. Usually, it happens after intense sweating and not drinking enough water.
- Heat Syncope: Sudden unconscious. Occurred as a result of blood pressure is too low. Often occur after heavy work continuously. The skin becomes cold and sticky while the pulse is weak.
- Heat Exhaustion: Symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, clammy skin, intense sweating, loss of appetite, nausea and abdominal pain. These signs arise when the body loses too much water when doing a lot of physical activity in high temperature areas.
- Heat Stroke: The body loses its ability to cool itself. As a result, increased body temperature, quick pulse, lost orientation, confusion, decreased blood pressure, unconsciousness and coma. This issue requires urgent medical treatment because it can cause death.
Temperatures that are too low can increase the risk of accidents due to health problems arising from the cold. Those who work in low temperatures such as cold storage, freezing and ice factories often vulnerable to this problem.
Effects of Low Extremes Temperature Risk to Health and Safety
- Frostbite: The ice crystals formed in the cells and tissues resulting in impaired blood flow.
- Hypothermia: body temperature drops to less than 35C.
- Injury to the eye: the cornea become blind due to freezing.
