Work health and safety, adaptation, and climate change

Humphrys, E

Work health and safety, adaptation, and climate change

Humphrys, E

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Publisher:: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2025, pp. 514-525
Issue Date:: 2025-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Humphrys, E https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0192-0426
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-14T02:55:15Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-14T02:55:15Z
dc.date.issued	2025-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2025, pp. 514-525
dc.identifier.isbn	9781035300891
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/189408
dc.description.abstract	At the nexus of accelerating climate change and efforts to achieve decent work, sit a range of challenges for labour. To date, the problems of industry reorganisation, sustainable jobs and just transitions have drawn most attention from scholars, labour and climate movements, and bodies like the International Labour Organization. Far less attention has been paid to the manifest and urgent work health and safety (WHS) impacts of global warming. This chapter explores the WHS impacts of climate change, with particular attention on the problem of high heat, and considers the issues in line with how the Sustainable Development Goals approach this issue. The chapter argues that the notion of climate precarity, alongside a radical politicisation of adaptation, can usefully frame discussion and more sustained action in this context.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
dc.relation.ispartof	Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4337/9781035300907.00052
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.title	Work health and safety, adaptation, and climate change
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design and Society
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
utslib.copyright.embargo	2026-01-14T00:00:00+1000Z
dc.date.updated	2025-08-14T02:55:11Z
pubs.publication-status	Published

Abstract:

At the nexus of accelerating climate change and efforts to achieve decent work, sit a range of challenges for labour. To date, the problems of industry reorganisation, sustainable jobs and just transitions have drawn most attention from scholars, labour and climate movements, and bodies like the International Labour Organization. Far less attention has been paid to the manifest and urgent work health and safety (WHS) impacts of global warming. This chapter explores the WHS impacts of climate change, with particular attention on the problem of high heat, and considers the issues in line with how the Sustainable Development Goals approach this issue. The chapter argues that the notion of climate precarity, alongside a radical politicisation of adaptation, can usefully frame discussion and more sustained action in this context.

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