Published August 2025 | Version version 1.1
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HIGH Horizons - User-friendly tool for heat-related risk assessment of the working environment in health facilities - CHECKLIST

  • 1. ROR icon Technical University of Denmark
  • 2. ROR icon Ghent University
  • 3. Wits Health Consortium
  • 4. ROR icon Lund University
  • 5. ROR icon Karolinska Institutet
  • 6. ROR icon World Health Organization
  • 7. ROR icon University of Graz
  • 8. Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya
  • 9. ROR icon Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research
  • 10. ROR icon London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • 11. ROR icon University of Thessaly

Description

This risk assessment checklist provides a practical and systematic procedure to identify and assess risks caused by working in high temperatures in healthcare settings, with the goal to prevent or reduce heat-related health risks, improve workers’ health and well-being, and ultimately the quality of care.

The checklist is developed within the framework of the HIGH Horizons project that studies how heat exposure affects pregnant and postpartum women, newborns, young children, and health workers. This checklist is a stand-alone document, based on the HIGH Horizons tool for heat-related risk assessment of the working environment in health facilities, as described in: Toftum J, Gao C, for the HIGH Horizons Study Group. HIGH Horizons - User-friendly tool for heat-related risk assessment of the working environment in health facilities – REPORT. Zenodo; 2025. 10.5281/zenodo.14942940.

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Heat-related risk assessment tool for health facilities_Checklist_v1.1.pdf

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Project deliverable: 10.5281/zenodo.14942940 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
Horizon Europe 10105784
UK Research and Innovation
UKRI Innovate UK 10038478