{"id":11630,"date":"2023-09-05T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11630"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:04:55","slug":"this-summer-is-giving-us-a-glimpse-at-the-dangerous-future-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11630","title":{"rendered":"This summer is giving us a glimpse at the dangerous future of work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Temperatures also don\u2019t have to be very high for strenuous work to become deadly. The lack of heat acclimatization all too frequently kills workers; the majority of workers who die from heat do so&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/heat-exposure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the first few days at work<\/a>. \u201cA lot of workers will actually end up in heatstroke during the first week on the job,\u201d says Brenda Jacklitsch, a health scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extreme heat is also affecting productivity. According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancetcountdown.org\/data-platform\/health-hazards-exposures-and-impacts\/1-1-health-and-heat\/1-1-4-change-in-labour-capacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 study by The Lancet<\/a>, which is tracking the relationship between climate change and public health, about 470 billion hours of labor were lost in 2021 due to extreme heat. The US alone lost 2.5 billion hours, mostly in the construction, manufacturing, service, and agriculture sectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23844420\/extreme-heat-work-labor-osha-climate-change\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23844420\/extreme-heat-work-labor-osha-climate-change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Temperatures also don\u2019t have to be very high for strenuous work to become deadly. The lack of heat acclimatization all too frequently kills workers; the majority of workers who die from heat do so in the first few days at work. \u201cA lot of workers will actually end up in heatstroke during the first week on the job,\u201d says Brenda Jacklitsch, a health scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).<br \/>\nExtreme heat is also affecting productivity. According to a 2022 study by The Lancet, which is tracking the relationship between climate change and public health, about 470 billion hours of labor were lost in 2021 due to extreme heat. The US alone lost 2.5 billion hours, mostly in the construction, manufacturing, service, and agriculture sectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23844420\/extreme-heat-work-labor-osha-climate-change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,104,1932,762,912,1183,1474],"class_list":["post-11630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-heat","tag-summer","tag-temperature","tag-weather","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11631,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions\/11631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}