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So you have the actual boundary even what its called, a saw in diesel to could keep the patient the only thing Global Temperatures will increase the with physical suffering right before the big issue for those he was outside the visual need but a lot show me that showed that it took latrice 12 instead of 2 sick dogs. So they bought the extra from dude down the hall and on the meet the scorching sun, 2 peasants take a break while working a field. Its hard talking work the past oral setting makes an obvious point. Eat and work never did mix well the when been go painted this work in 1889. The world had already unconsciously started a new climate age the the age of unprecedented Global Warming. The most recent years have been the warmest that have ever been on record. The Climate Change is threatening the health of new the ends of workers who are directly exposed to the heat. Whats more, it produces their productivity and brings into question the conventional model of growth to always produce more faster. The warming climate is reaching an insurmountable limit. The balance set by the human body. Can we keep working as we always have in a harder world . And at what price the same on the other line it gives you are no good for me. Something is that were still kind of the summer thing though. Okay. And you know, your timing on the top part of estimate it said on the corner page of the bottom. I mean what im talking about and this one was the one that was she didnt make if i leave with be able to get before you got them. I dont see the bed. Thats an old one. Its open only on one side and has no ac. I can see system thats even worse, a post on the media of what us, what is the to the driver side table felt like it was 50 degrees in the cabin, then up to one side of that is, you know, but at that one there, imagine its like a green house in there, it wasnt in there like a sauna, so i live in november to 98 percent oxygen saturation. Part rate is 79. 00. So in 2 experts are here as part of a joint project by the time in government and the non profit organization, you know you, theyre trying to safeguard against the effects of heat in the workplace. Taking a picture with the thermal camera, their job is to assess the health risks the heat poses for italian workers. Is the website as measures your heart rate exhaustion . High precision and sometimes im busy. Sure. So shes mild. So yes. Tons of fits, hans. I the very hard to sort of miss bad weather is full cost of the storms right away on these. Are you working with . This is on the super sufficient feeling. Climate change a little bit more each year each year in italy, more than 4000. 00 work accidents are attributed to excessive heat. Anyone who works outdoors is the 1st to be exposed to the risks of longer and hotter summers the if you need to add that on. Besides, you just dont want to get the approval to go to turn a fund, any steps 1st you start sweating. See how when you switch to montana getting dehydrated, and lose a mineral to be, that can cause prompt tiredness and confusion. And in the worst cases of your loss of consciousness, each stroke for, for the kind of when you have to act fast, to prevent a tragic situation. But i mean for the heat to enable into these workers or people to open up when he got his fully active wanting bishop. This man is suffering from heat stress. His heart needs to be faster to transport the heat, to the skin where it will be dissipated through sweat. The higher the humanity, the less west evaporates and the faster the heart beats to compensate. As a natural reaction to the body attempts to reduce collectivity to keep the heart rate stable. If thats at all possible the wednesday and see that level of as that they wont display the people in the me, the speed that silver mine here was under severe physiological stress was weird including the hindered switching position that was heart rate cruise sharply to nearly a 140. 00 piece per minute in the corner and the guys are fighting and pay what i can. But the reason the heart is working so hard is because of thermal regulation. Instead of trying to keep the bodies temperature around 37 degrees, i dont mean it rises cannot. Its like a car with a radiator, it overheat such the engine keeps getting hotter and hotter. And if you to a stop this point, 38 on the top of my somebody saying the sunsets simple rules. It forces the body to slow down what workers are just subject to the laws of nature. To remove the articles in todays nature, what does it stable . I started feeling ill in the sun and died on the roof of the hanger. Did you come on . Only a worker from romania, little man. Oh that was yesterday. Thats just that was yesterday before a father of 4 children. That meant that it was likely a heart attack. Should i miss you . See that being said we need it. Yeah, the, yesterday was the time to act for too late today ivy a little now weve got to leave this awful news of a romanian who leaves behind a family of 4 children, the level that 40 can and just because he went to work and quite a little fee cause a bad reporting with table that gets that one. What i was just hard to imagine how such a thing could happen on the official complaint and just shooting mediating. And then i proceeded 10 workers in italy died from heat exposure in the summer of 2022. In france, 7 people died on the job, also likely as a result of increasing temperatures. A year later, the summer of 2023 was once again the hardest summer recorded in the northern hemisphere. Since the records began the basically the entire country seeing temperatures over 90. And if you take it a step further, over the coming days, more than 60000000 people across the country who experienced temperatures overall 100 degrees heat advisories, going up all over the place from texas throughout the south. And its also starting to push into the east coast and into the northeast. The, the number of heat waves in the us has tripled in the last 60 years. Heat stress cost more than 1500. 00 depths and the us some 2022 and a growing branch Package Delivery is seeing more and more cases the. The family of waco worker who died on the job over the summer is file a wrongful death lawsuit. Against the company on august 12th, Jose Cruz Rodriguez was found dead at the vs. Facility on franklin avenue yesterday is mom and dad filed suit against dps and 2 supervisors. They say their son died of heat stroke. Thats no pain that i wish upon nobody. You know, my son was young, he had a whole life and i dont think he he to serve this. Jose Cruz Rodriguez died age 23 from hyperthermia. After he complained a feeling unwell on his delivery route. The drivers union, the teamsters saying his sudden desk is no isolated case at u. B. S. Nationwide. The company is among those with the greatest number of heat related work accidents. This company, and this is the fact that just came out posted record 2nd quarter profits 8. 5 percent over what they made last year during a pandemic. Right. And theyre projected for, for your backs, you brothers and sisters, to have revenue of over a 100000000. 00 in 2022. Thats great news because its a solve and company. But heres the bad news. Last week on thursday or friday, 4 of our members on long island downtown and had had to go to Emergency Rooms because of the heat. Today people are going to say its a nice day. Yeah, its a nice day. But, but your package card are still going to be way over a 100 degrees. Imagine if you had the had is just put on the street at a 150 degrees, asphalt, or during a blizzard. And they told him, hey, work from there. And were going to be watching you while you doing sky says brothers assistant, vinny parole and is the teamsters representative of the union is one of the most powerful groups supporting drivers in the us. So coming out its struggling to have the management of us introduced measures to improve the safety of its drivers like putting air conditioning in the trucks. Remember that these um new trucks that are coming in the mounting of with dashboard cameras. Theyre installing other cameras with driver facing sensors, but they wont give us the bare minimum. They wont at least put fans in the trucks. Were saying that we get people are dying because of the heat and then they have the money to of what kind of our l. Yeah. And the typical driver will make a 130 to 200 deliveries a day. Okay. Theyre getting in and out of the truck. Theyre working 1112 hours a day that i experienced as myself you. You go to a location and you walk in covered in sweat, exhausted, looking like youre going to say. And the 1st thing out of a customers mouth is dont you guys have ac in the truck . No. Oh my god. Have a cup of water sit down. The heat is through the in the summer temperatures in the back of the vehicle regularly reach higher than 50 degree celsius. Thats where the drivers spend part of the day, sorting their packages. But us delivery personnel arent just exposed to extreme heat. Theyre expected to work quickly to they drive with their doors open to save time and every stop. Every one of their movements is monitored by software on board the truck. Then its analyzed by managers for potential time losses and feels like you have a gun to your head all day long. Youre constantly being harassed about the gaps in between your time. Theyre telling maddox system, theyre sparks system. It tells them how long it should take you to do a stop that was stop. Could be an envelope of documents or a can be 40 packages that weighs 50 pounds each to this warehouse here. But through the computer, thats all the same thing. Its a race with time that makes delivery personnel blind to their body signals this u. P. S. Worker in arizona and was filmed by a Customer Security camera. He has all the symptoms of heat stroke. Even if he wants, he doesnt forget to record his stop before he goes back to his vehicle the and even though it was going on its you know, the sweat and the live. Think about here out of your vehicle and all of a sudden things are foggy. You see and little little stars. Im thinking okay, well, by 1145. I gotta get that, that building finished. And i gotta get to the next one. But. So yeah, you know, for me im on a time schedule. Im not thinking about, oh, whats going on for the share you though the, the let as the lead might was to be failures 6 years ago, jim clint nearly died at the wheel of his delivery truck. The former and u. P. S. Driver thinks the presence of mind of his wife, a nurse urged him to go to the emergency room. The final diagnosis was a key renal failure, and that goes on to explain about the q to be learned necrosis and the dehydration must be solved. This is all pertaining to a, renal failure, the despite 15 years driving experience and the prevention advice of his employer, jims body and its limits that day. The ability to hydrate, hydrate, hydro, and in your mind the whole time, you know, youre just thinking ok, what didnt i do, right . That to always make toys with an item, right . And, you know, bottom line as it comes down to the fact that, that youre not getting into main situations. Youre in very intimate situations. You know, you know, human goes through life 10 hours a day in a 150 degree weather. The. This doesnt happen. Less of a company made almost 5000000000 dollars last year, but they say it hasnt calculated the cost of air conditioning because i say it wouldnt be effective since the trucks make frequent stocks and the doors are open. Now some ask for say, there could be other Solutions Like allowing more time for breaks, for temperatures, rise to dangerous levels. And ask for jim quick. He told us hes considering retiring early, even though its going to mean that covers we bought her right away. For the 1st time. You can ship that in the comes through. The luckily jims kidney failure did become chronic. The organs recovered, even though they are still damaged. An inability to cope with the heat finally drove jim to give up his job. Shocked by the behavior of his company is wife teresa started a petition to force us to install air conditioners and the trucks. Through this, she discovered how desperate gps workers are all over the country. All right, so. Okay. My fiance is a driver and i have firsthand seen him after work completely exhausted on the brink of heat exhaustion to sell this as a driver. We spend a lot more time inside the vehicle, then we should. We dont get so started earlier or have work fluid adjusted. Something has to give. We have 1000000, 312000 656 position signers. The according to independent research by nbc. Between 20152019. At least 170. 00 us workers have to be hospitalized through the heat related work accidents. And the authorities in the unit say the tru figure could be much higher. They have tried to hide injuries, especially that accidents. They try to keep you from reporting something theyll say, well, you know what . Go home, take a couple of days off. Not knowing what its got to do to your body 10 years from now. The current study, warrens but delivery staff faced the risk of developing chronic kidney disease, like the kind observed in central america. When we asked the company said the health of its workers, was that top priority we believe that by training our people to be prepared and by providing ample resources for support and hydration, we can continue to keep them safe. Last summer we accelerated the installation of fans in every u. P. A small Package Delivery vehicle in the us and provided our employees with 260000 new uniforms, with waking dry fits shirts and performance fabric shorts. More than 164000 cooling tunnels, more than 31000000 bottles of water plus ice and fruits with high water content since 2011 ocean, the us Work Safety Authority has 5 due 7 times for insufficiently protection, for its employees. The fine. So whenever an excess of 15000. 00 at a national level, complaints against companies are rare, because in the us there are no required nationwide laws to force employers to prevent heat stress. Lets face it. There will always be the need for those kind of workers in the outdoors and into warehouses so we should come to grips with it and finally have some standards to protect them. A member of the us house of representatives from california duty to head spot for 15 years to include heat protection and federal labor law. In 2006, she saw state law passed, requiring companies to offer water and breaks the laborers, working in temperatures over 35 degrees celsius. California actually has had millions of penalties imposed on employers. I still think that california can do a better job in terms of the inspection. So nonetheless, of course, we dont have enough penalties across United States because the conditions havent even been implemented by osha so we have to have those rules there as a condition, a work for both indoor and outdoor workers. The representative has found an important ally in the white house, president joe biden, and vice president. Cumberland harris are demanding that osha develop regulations to prevent heat stress on the job. The outdoor heat, indoor heat, presents a Workplace Safety issue, and employers are responsible for protecting their workers in the workplace from the dangers of the heat, including any farm field and delivery man everywhere that has its no easy feat. While there are standards, osha has failed to create official laws and guidelines for their implementation. And i definitely think that there will be industries that wont be resistant because they would say that it will make them lose money that their workers wont be as productive. But is it really as simple as protecting labor equals reduce profits . A few companies have recognized in the meantime that doing nothing can be the most costly strategy of all the good temperatures all during a heat wave is all set to unfortunately, continue for the next 2 days on temperatures actually on the weekend, touched 49 degrees. The message often does one advice we often allow that to people know to windshield outdoors on this absolutely necessary. The in 2022 india had a historic heat weight that lasted for more than 3 months. It seemed to confirm the predictions of climate researchers that our future will be full of earlier, more frequent and more severe heat waves. Global warming could force Indias Economic growth to make an emergency stop the. Thats because the heat has costs and the economists are Getting Better and better at quantifying them. The you can have efficiency on the y axis and temperature on the x axis. So totally good 0 and too many studies we have seen that the human body has a test or at the 18 degree celsius when both temperature. So this goes funds to 2930. 00 degrees s. As in the j temperature, you see that the efficiency of the productivity of any human or domestically falls and continues to follow. The common sector is one of the largest employer in the form is face of women that are approximately 45000000 workers in this space. And the majority of them are women. The. These were kind of set up in production lines. So they are situated in a close to each other and to work as fast paced. So when workers are so closely situated apart from the room, temperature says theres other sources of body heat thats coming out. The, as the im being told theres Room Temperature is increasing the effect on the human bodies way to your mental abilities. Start slowing down, you know, physiologically your body is getting tired, foster and in the factories. They have a targets that upset the textile workers are in a bind, the climate is forcing them to slow down. While the system demands, they work faster and faster. Maybe for 5 to 10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes. You can push instead of meet your targets. But at the end of the day, you will definitely reach a situation where the fatigue will be too much for you to control. It might start at one wrong step out of that. And then by the end of the day, youre just making mistakes. Farther on of the spot from you and not able to commit to meeting your targets, you can also lose your job. The indian textile julia srahi can precisely measure how temperature impacts its employees. To the degree the Company Discovered this almost accidentally. So we started making notes, we chatted them a zip, so we can dig for reduction in part consumption. So that we started identifying i really appreciate and see lightnings in place of conventional compact photos and lamps which use more to electricity. And also there is a lot of heat, the electricity gets converted into heat, which is not required in the factories that have a that ended up adopting any nights. We saw that the productive video of the efficiency of workers did fall in the boss that aging degrees s o in. But it didnt fall as drastically as in those factories where did this lightning strikes us through the conversion to lead the lights reduce the temperature on the factory floor by 3. 00 to 4. 00 degrees celsius with each degree of decrease the productivity of the workers grew by around 3 percent of the Company Recognized how beneficial it would be to find a way to cool the employees off. Today the factories are equipped with enormous fans and ventilation systems. But the seamstresses are still stuck on the production line. Your target today, the temperature. So actually always know we, we thought of, heres the efficiency all for a blank design level, standard level is on jeep and retake precautionary measures. As i said in case of making their designs, if youre not getting that productivity out of the efficiency, then the fact that in coming up in that area will not be viable. And those people really get really lose the opportunity for employment. Its not just the work of the 4 months, so thats getting affected. So overall i you, the more that is whom are you can its a visualized possibility. Well, it economically your sector, even as a nation, youll put it often before simply interaction between heat and the human body has of a massive effect on the national economy. When its hot, people work less more slowly and less effectively. This is causing more than 2 trillion dollars to be lost to the Global Economy annually. This figure is forecast to double by 2050 as a result of Climate Change. In europe, in the south, especially frequent heat waves are projected to cause high losses. But the rise in temperature will hit the economies on the equator, hardest. The or while some companies are already trying to adapt. Millions of workers just dont have the means to do it. In india, 90 percent of them work in the informal economy and most are women. These invisible labors work without contracts or social security, the really a tragedy because the men actually while working from the home, please, the very Important Role or venue talking about can you call me so more something where you think this new company is when they are manufacturing that product, this products are actually all stores for the ve men while working into slumps. Safety look at the houses that weve finding or low medias. Those policies are constructed from what data like inserts or demand serves, are thoughtfully all and all the smart videos are very crap huge. This the 1st item, pretty general sir. It is 45. 00 degrees celsius. The women who are working from their home will actually be feeling like 4 to 714 degrees celsius may hardest. Obviously someone has been womans unusual. Im like, been living in the home to bond for 30 years, and they never be in this house because it is a seamstress and the slums of a home to buy heat weights are common in the city. But this year the extreme heat came even earlier than normal in march for almost 40 days in a row, temperatures hit 40 degrees celsius to last week, it was so hot and slips for 3 or 4 days. I couldnt work. Yeah, i told him was that i couldnt down the jobs my customer attached to me like im up was because the normally the common earns around 200 rupees a day. Thats around 2 years. The heat reduces her earnings as if it were a tax. Each degree, reducing them by a few rubies but even though the productivity loss, anything between 30 percent to 50 percent, depending on the kind of lung thing, definitely definitely the money that theyre going to make during doesnt one to a video as much on the other side they are making more investment also in this somewhat for example, they have to be a little bit extra on that electric safety charges, but keep that home because so maybe talk about the Climate Change. I think they need to realize that the most of the ones that are very populous and particularly auto been for they are frizzing named back to day. And now its not something that is going to affect them in the future. The are you with the support of the injury on the healer because it has found it in all female Neighborhood Committee de gimme a youre not responsible for the problem affecting them, but they have no other choice but to Seek Solutions together. Fema. So what i gave them obviously money to go to, you know, how hot it is today may no, you dont have the model for them. Know, because sometimes baseball is basically its 46 degrees of quite going to cause yes, thats right up to at least 46 degrees. Tell me the comedy, my dad is on the account because, i mean, i dont ever do this for i used to work 6 hours a day. Sometimes even back when i was employed at a company, you know, i only work 2 hours together. But after an hour, im already wiped out. Thats how much do i live in before ive earned 3 zeros a day to get into them. Well get there now. I just stay home in the summer and do nothing movies. So good for i was that. So when youre sewing, youve got to sit for hours. I cant manage the near god when it is hot, i can barely breathe. I get dizzy. My Blood Pressure droppers at the decorated outside. Gotta make any again. So what can we do about the heat . Is this tough on top, like im asked me one foot planted tree audience on ive got, if everyone would want a tree that would take a bit of the heat, tulsa put up nearby, and the kids could play under them. We should plant trees on the way, but the streets of to now are to plant trees according to our calculations for the whole low in the were talking about at the end of the sent to the a on the contracts of time of change about 15 percent of the work hours, so its been lost overall and in the country. So thats again, almost 2 months of the year. You know, its estimated the effects of heat on productivity could cause india to lose around 4 percent of his Gross Domestic Product by 2030. The workers and major cities are those who suffer most from the heat. So here creating a 3 dimensional map of im the but were Better Things in trees and open spaces if the thing is getting created the same time we will be supporting, forcing a Remote Sensing data surface temperature, the data to understand where the heat buckets off there the, the pockets out and what is the density of buildings and what does the density of trees. And so its a pretty, pretty game and a start. You suggest that the surface temperature difference from one area to other katie i could be in the range of 8. 00 to 16. 00 degree. Yes maam. The seems to be people who stays in a, you know, area of a char, having a more vegetation be not seen. So much of feet versus people who are living in the area which is very common to nancy. Fact receive of the cooling cities as an economic challenge. Because 80 percent of Global Wealth is produced in urban areas and half of the population lives and works there. The architect, roger and rollo, is working on a major task for the 21st century success to cooling a sort of mississippi not is no more lecture. How do we provide a cooling through large amount of people easily . And the challenge is actually where conditioners a new bring to challenge this one is the energy consumption. And then we produce energy right now does add a lot of emissions and the same fine. But as president leave, which use inside the, the coup and also has a Global Warming potential. So on these 2 friends, probably its, its going to be the lead even challenging how we read in a gap. This the demand for air conditioners could grow by a factor of 10 in the next 15 years. Today, its available to a small percentage of the indian population but adapting to Climate Change with air conditioning isnt just a mistake. Its a tramp system for white, a cooling within the building, metacognition or me extract the shape. It is getting from news within the building. Now when it gets the heat, outdoor outdoor temperature locally in the micro and warm, and also both on the heat, emissions from air conditioners can raise outdoor temperature is in a City District by one or 2 degrees celsius. So the comfort of individual workers is achieved at the cost of others for roger and roll. Well, the solution would and the form of strategic use of technologies and what he calls personal thermal comfort, the condition inside learning. What do we just want to create the micro and woman around people . And to me that we use so many, the personalized comfort system has a 4 and one page. It does use a less energy, but its the same time. It provides an opportunity for each individual, specifically on thermal in wyoming. And the moment you provide a appropriate summerland woman for different occupants have different labels there for an activity different if it goes up because they are happy in that one double and warm it. The indian needs to find the Affordable Solutions to shield itself from future heat waves. Like this reflective paint women in the slums of a home to bond or buying at the mikaela and g o. The to be can reduce temperatures and the buildings by 4. 00 to 5. 00 degrees celsius. The experts say we have to come up with new concepts for settings, the making them greener, building differently. And of course, improving interior ventilation. The if we dont adapt, theres a danger that a thermal gap could open up in cities. Highly qualified workers with then only be able to escape the heat, while others with suffering that in this new world of work, panes of glass and air conditioning, well separate those who sweat from those who dont. The warming world, people see a lot of risk and thats understandable. There is a lot of risk, but theres also an enormous amount of opportunity to, to change how we organize, work to change how we value people. We can actually, it saves both industry and government a ton of money by making sure people dont get sick. The, the question for me is, how do we think about re conceptualizing production . How do we think re conceptualizing work if we want to produce in the conditions of Climate Change . The only way to imagine continuing to produce is to imagine drawing on the expertise of workers to restructure that system of production. Whether its a u. P. S. Driver, or a construction worker and company. What will be the place of workers worked in dispensable to our economy and the new climate age . Will they be valued less because he makes them less productive and who will pay the price of protecting them . What is clear is their situation depends more than ever on how well we take care of our planet, the, [000 00 00;00] the, the well has dried family who same in iraq lives with time. It seems a little closer. They have a male supposed to fix up the drugs. 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