20.500.12556/RUL-133820 Steps towards comprehensive heat communication in the frame of a heat health warning system in Slovenia Occupational heat stress has an important negative impact on the well-being, health and productivity of workers and should; therefore, be recognized as a public health issue in Europe. There is no comprehensive heat health warning system in Slovenia combining public health measures with meteorological forecasts. The aim of this research was to provide insight into the development of such a system in Slovenia, turning the communication from the current meteoalarm into a broader system that has more information for different social groups. To achieve this goal, the following steps were used: Analysis of summer temperatures and issued meteoalarms, a survey of the general knowledge about heat among the public, organization and management of two stakeholder symposia, and a final survey on workers’ opinions on heat stress and measures, supplemented by interviews with employers. Summer average daily temperature distributions in Slovenia changed during the investigated period (1961–2019) and the mean values increased over time by 2–3 °C. Additionally, the number of days with fulfilled yellow (potentially dangerous) and especially orange (dangerous) meteoalarm conditions increased significantly after 1990. The survey of the general public about heat stress and warnings showed that efforts to raise awareness of heat issues need to be intensified and that public health measures should effectively target vulnerable groups. Stakeholder symposia and further surveys have shown that awareness and understanding of the negative effects of heat stress on health and productivity are still quite low, so effective ways of disseminating information to different sectors while striking the best balance between efficiency, feasibility and economic cost have to be found. heat health warnings occupational heat stress stakeholders meteoalarm awareness delavci klimatske spremembe vročinski stres Slovenija vročinski valovi zdravje true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2021-12-16 11:36:00 2021-12-16 11:36:00 2022-09-13 03:52:44 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020 0 0 16 str. iss. 16, art. 5829 Vol. 17 2020 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 551.58 1660-4601 10.3390/ijerph17165829 25759491 RAZ_Pogacar_Tjasa_2020.pdf RAZ_Pogacar_Tjasa_2020.pdf 1 124AEB596079586818CC1C4528833DA4 dfeb48883dfb0b912fd5c61276227a1a7b06b09083e8d50d4d8e0e16b48bb7c5 713f56bf-5e5c-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=152173 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/16/5829 0 f15be19c-5e5b-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=152172 Biotehniška fakulteta Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko 0 0 0