title: Work in the cold--an information and research program in occupational health.
abstract: Hundreds of thousands of employees work in the cold. The problems concerning cold are, to a great extent, well known. There are also good suggestions about how to deal with these problems. This project deals with: Cold stress, as an important risk factor for medical illness; the problems concerning clothing and equipment; how to change the snowmobile into a modern low risk piece of equipment: international standardization usable in the field; different approaches for information to reach and be used by the workers and their chiefs.
authors.affiliation: Swedish Foundation for Occupational Health, Kiruna.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dahlström
mesh_terms: D003081:Cold Climate; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health