NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

important to speak of the investigation of
problems typical to Puerto Rico which do not
necessarily are generalized in other states of
the union, we are speaking of grades of heat,
‘estrellas de calor’. If we speak of the
problems associated to the exposition of high
temperature and high grades of humidity then
Puerto Rico is a tremendous laboratory of
study. Here anyone who has tried to cut grass
at twelve noon can feel that problem. Imagine
those workers in civil construction that work
outside on sunny days during the summer.
Reestablishment of service after
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hurricanes is another area where we the same as
some states of the union, have a potential
problem after a storm. The electrocution, the
falling and other risks associated to this
work. One of the most important subjects
principally for the small industry is the
development of solutions that are economically
feasible to implement. That they should be at
the same time efficient in the sense of
resolving the problem and efficient in such a
way as to be economically feasible to bring