Zlatar Tomi, Torres Costa José, Vaz Mário, Santos Baptista João
Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics (LAETA), University of Porto, Portugal.
Work. 2019;62(2):337-352. doi: 10.3233/WOR-192868.
Exposure to severe cold thermal environment (SCE) is a significant risk factor in the frozen food industry, influencing health and safety of the employees.
The aim of this work is to present the level of knowledge on the influence of SCE on core and skin temperatures.
The review has been conducted using appropriated keywords and expressions, by searching 21 electronic databases and references of the included articles. Only research articles with healthy subjects and considering exposure to SCE conditions (- 5°C or lower) were considered.
Thirteen articles were included in the systematic review which met the research objective and were in accordance with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. All the included studies measured core or skin temperatures.
The main findings of this review indicate that working in SCE is and will remain an added risk factor. Further studies should be conducted in laboratory and industrial severe cold thermal environments on acclimatized and non-acclimatized subjects, in order to evaluate core and skin temperature variations and its recovery periods.
暴露于严重寒冷的热环境（SCE）是冷冻食品行业的一个重要风险因素，会影响员工的健康和安全。
本研究旨在呈现关于SCE对核心体温和皮肤温度影响的知识水平。
通过搜索21个电子数据库和纳入文章的参考文献，使用适当的关键词和表述进行综述。仅考虑涉及健康受试者且考虑暴露于SCE条件（-5°C或更低）的研究文章。
13篇文章被纳入系统综述，这些文章符合研究目标且符合纳入和排除标准。所有纳入研究均测量了核心体温或皮肤温度。
本综述的主要发现表明，在SCE环境中工作过去是、将来仍将是一个额外的风险因素。应在实验室和工业严重寒冷热环境中，对适应和未适应的受试者进行进一步研究，以评估核心体温和皮肤温度的变化及其恢复期。
