Global Climate Change and Occupational Safety and Health of Outdoor Workers
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
Interests: global climate change and health; low wage; high risk working populations; occupational and environmental medicine; occupational health disparities
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Interests: occupational and environmental health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
IJERPH is requesting submissions for a Special Issue on climate change and outdoor workers, addressing the many ways in which global climate change impacts health and safety. Data-driven research that explores fatal and non-fatal injury outcomes from more frequent and severe weather-related disasters, heat waves, and wildfires, as well as the fatal and non-fatal illnesses associated with the increased range and duration of insect vectors, air pollution, aeroallergens, wildfires and chronic heat effects, and others, are welcome. Intervention effectiveness studies that evaluate preventive measures, adaptation, and mitigation are also welcome.
All outdoor working populations are of interest. We welcome submissions that address the occupational safety and health needs of agricultural workers, construction workers, landscape workers, postal and delivery workers, utility workers, trash and recycling collectors, as well as trash pickers and waste recyclers, emergency responders and fire fighters, and rescue and recovery workers, among others. Many perform essential work with minimal protection, placing them squarely in the path of safety and health hazards. Studies addressing the increased vulnerability that may be amplified by poverty, weak regulatory protections, a lack of formal immigration status, trafficking, or prison work are encouraged.
Papers will be considered until March 2026, although earlier submission is encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Rosemary Sokas
Prof. Dr. Rima Habib
Prof. Dr. Iman Nuwayhid
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- global warming
- outdoor workers
- occupational safety and health
- prevention
- adaptation
- mitigation
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