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Volume 5, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Occup Med Health Aff, an open access journal
ISSN: 2329-6879
Environmental Health 2017
September 7-8, 2017
September 7-8, 2017 | Paris, France
Environmental Health & Global Climate Change
2
nd
International Conference on
THE DIFFERENCES OF PULSE, CORE BODY TEMPERATURE, AND WEIGHT: BEFORE
ANDAFTERWORK INTHE HEAT STRESS ENVIRONMENTATATEACOMPANY - FILLING
PROCESS
Gustina
a
, Surindar Dhesi
a
, Baju Widjasena
b
, M Erg
b
and
Siswi Jayanti
b
a
University of Birmingham, UK
b
Diponegoro University, Indonesia
Statement of the Problem:
Heat stress in the work environment affects worker’s physical condition; the blood vessel capacity
increases and dilates. Also, heat stress can trigger the heart to pump more blood to the skin to release heat. This leads to an
increased pulse rate. Furthermore, it affects the evaporation mechanism of the body and causes changes in body temperature
and continuous sweating affects the composition of body fluids. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in
pulse, core body temperature, weight of the workers before and after work in the heat stress environment of a Tea filling process
at 30.8 degrees Celsius room temperature in average. The design of this study utilized cross-sectional methods. 15 tea workers
were samples of a total workforce of 20. The data was analyzed using a Paired t-Test and Wilcoxon Signed Ranked Test.
Findings:
The results showed that 80%of respondents experienced an increasing of pulse rate, 100%of respondents experienced
an increasing of the core body temperature, and 66.7% of respondents experienced weight loss.
Conclusion & significant:
The results of the Paired t-Test revealed there was a significant difference in pulse rate before and
after working in the hot environment (p=0.007), there was also a significant difference in body core temperature before and
after work in the hot environment (p=0.001). However, there was no significant difference in weight loss before and after
working in the hot environment (p=0.630).
Occup Med Health Aff 2017, 5:2(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2329-6879-C1-032