Thu, May 20, 2021
Work and Health in the Arctic session at the UArctic Congress 2021
The online session "Work and Health in the Arctic" was held on 18 May 2021 at the UArctic Congress 2021, and was organized by the UArctic Thematic Network on Working in the Arctic. Session participants exchanged research results in the fields of physiology, psychology and medical support of labor in the Arctic.
Researchers from Russia, Finland, Norway and Canada made several presentations:
- Hilde Faerevik (SINTEF Digital, Norway): "Health effects of cold exposure in different occupations";
- Dominic Gagnon (Laurentian University, Canada): "Human skeletal oxygen transport and metabolism during work in the cold: recent advances";
- Sirkka Rissanen (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland): "Use of respirators in the cold";
- Juha Oksa, Satu Manttari (Työterveyslaitos, Finland): "Working in the cold: muscular strain in meat cutting work";
- Yana Korneeva (NArFU, Russia): "Professional performance of fly-in-fly-out industrial workers in the Arctic";
- Natalya Simonova, Lyudmila Gubaidulina (MSU, Russia): "The Ministry of Emergency Situations rescuers' personal reliability and professional success";
- Anna Yuryeva, Anastasia Korneeva (NArFU, Russia): "The loggers' job stress and working capacity during fly-in period in the Far North".
The overall objective of the Thematic Network on Working in the Arctic is to develop a global partnership of educational and scientific organizations in the North for study and support of human working capacities in the Arctic.
Learn more and join: https://www.uarctic.org/organization/thematic-networks/working-in-the-arctic/