O8B.2 Epidemiological descriptions of occupational health effects of climate change

There have been many laboratory studies of the effect of heat on the health of individuals in sport, at work or in the military. However, epidemiological studies are needed to develop impact assessment of climate change. In this presentation we outline the development and use of population-exposure risk functions for different heat effects. The first risk function is for heat discomfort based on the predicted mean vote with 10% population...