{"id":13866,"date":"2025-04-24T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/?p=13866"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:59:08","slug":"the-impact-of-workplace-heat-and-cold-on-work-time-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/the-impact-of-workplace-heat-and-cold-on-work-time-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of workplace heat and cold on work time loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"ejp-article-authors\"><\/section>\n<div>\n<div id=\"abstract\" class=\"abstract\">\n<div id=\"eng-abstract\" class=\"abstract-content selected\">\n<p>Ioannou LG, Tsoutsoubi L, Mantzios K, Gkikas G, Agaliotis G, Koutedakis Y, Garc\u00eda-Le\u00f3n D, Havenith G, Liang J, Arkolakis C, Glaser J, Kenny GP, Mekjavic IB, Nybo L, Flouris AD. The impact of workplace heat and cold on work time loss. J Occup Environ Med. 2025 Feb 7. doi: 10.1097\/JOM.0000000000003332. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39965897.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/viber_image_2025-04-24_10-03-09-770-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Objective: We investigated the impact of workplace heat and cold on work time loss. Methods: Field experiments in different industrial sectors were conducted in multiple countries across all seasons between 2016 and 2024. Hundreds of workers were video-recorded and their full shifts (n = 603) were analyzed on a second-by-second basis (n = 16,065,501 sec). Environmental data were recorded using portable weather stations. The Workplace Environmental Labor Loss (WELL) functions were developed to describe work time loss due to workplace temperature. Results: The WELL functions revealed a U-shaped relationship whereby the least work time loss is observed at 18 \u00b0C (64 \u00b0F), and increases for every degree above or below this optimal temperature. Conclusions: The WELL functions quantify the impact of workplace temperature on work time loss, extending to temperatures previously believed to be unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>Full Text Link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/joem\/abstract\/9900\/the_impact_of_workplace_heat_and_cold_on_work_time.770.aspx\">https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/joem\/abstract\/9900\/the_impact_of_workplace_heat_and_cold_on_work_time.770.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ioannou LG, Tsoutsoubi L, Mantzios K, Gkikas G, Agaliotis G, Koutedakis Y, Garc\u00eda-Le\u00f3n D, Havenith G, Liang J, Arkolakis C, Glaser J, Kenny GP, Mekjavic IB, Nybo L, Flouris AD. The impact of workplace heat and cold on work time loss. J Occup Environ Med. 2025 Feb 7. doi: 10.1097\/JOM.0000000000003332. Epub ahead of print. PMID: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fame-lab-publications-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16513,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions\/16513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}