• DocumentCode
    3346717
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Cox Regression Method to Study Safe Work Time in Hot and Humid Environments

  • Author

    Guozhong Zheng ; Neng Zhu ; Zhe Tian ; Shilei Lu ; Ying Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Environ. Sci. & Eng., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    Heat-related disorders, productivity falling and safety problems are common phenomena when people working in hot and humid environments. In this research, the physiological parameters (oral temperature, heart rate and blood pressure) of people working in hot and humid environments were obtained. Based on the physiological limits, the safe work times in different conditions were determined. Then Cox regression method was adopted to determine and rank the significant covariates. The hazard function, survival function curve and hazard function curve were also obtained. The results show the effectives of Cox regression method in analyzing safe work time in hot and humid environments.
  • Keywords
    ergonomics; occupational health; occupational safety; regression analysis; Cox regression method; blood pressure; hazard function curve; heart rate; heat-related disorders; hot environments; humid environments; oral temperature; physiological limits; physiological parameters; productivity falling; safe work times; safety problems; survival function curve; Biomedical monitoring; Hazards; Heating; Humans; Humidity; Temperature measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • ISSN
    2151-7614
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5088-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781597
  • Filename
    5781597