Table 2.
HWA outdoors and indoors stratified by workload and time of day using WBGT data.
| Time interval | 6–9 a.m. | 9 a.m.–12 p.m. | 12–3 p.m.a | 3–5 p.m. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HWA (minutes) | Mean ± SD [95% CI] | ||||||||
| Setting | Workload | ||||||||
| Outdoors | Moderate | 37 ± 26 | [33, 40] | 15 ± 21 | [13, 18] | 27 ± 21 | [24, 29] | 30 ± 20 | [27, 33] |
| Heavy | 29 ± 25 | [26, 32] | 9 ± 15 | [7, 11] | 15 ± 16 | [13, 17] | 18 ± 17 | [15, 20] | |
| Indoors | Moderate | 50 ± 19 | [47, 52] | 44 ± 22 | [41, 46] | 43 ± 21 | [40, 45] | 45 ± 21 | [41, 48] |
| Heavy | 42 ± 21 | [39, 45] | 32 ± 22 | [30, 35] | 30 ± 20 | [27, 32] | 33 ± 21 | [30, 37] |
aMandatory afternoon outdoor work ban (12–3 p.m.).