Risk Assessment of Heat Stroke Disease of Civil Construction Workers Case Study: Road Construction Company, Phayao Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to evaluate the symptoms of the workers who are at risk for heat stroke and to study the preventive behaviors of the workers. The participants of the study were 35 civil construction workers from a rad construction company at J1 and J2 roads, Phayao Province. The data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using mean, percentage, and frequency. It was found that the risk for heatstroke was at a normal level with an average score of 29. The participants reported that after having been working under the sun for a long time, they were fatigue and exhausted with the highest average score of 47. In terms of self-protection while working in hot weather, it was found that the overall mean was at a good level of 3.58. The participants observed their urination. They drank more water when they rarely urinated, when the color of their urine turned darker, and when the body was dehydrated with the highest mean of 3.84.