Potential impacts of Washington State's wildfire worker protection rule on construction workers.

ABSTRACT: Driven by climate change, wildfires are increasing in frequency, duration, and intensity across the Western United States. Outdoor workers are being exposed to increasing wildfire-related particulate matter and smoke. Recognizing this emerging risk, Washington adopted an emergency rule and is presently engaged in creating a permanent rule to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke exposure. While there are growing bodies of literature on the exposure to and health effects of wildfire smoke in the general public and wildland firefighters, there is a gap in knowledge about wildfire smoke exposure among outdoor workers generally and construction workers specifically-a large category of outdoor workers in Washington totaling 200,000 people. Several data sources were linked in this study-in

SUBMITTER: Zuidema C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9030230 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature