Joint Report with Centre for Future Work

Joint Report with Centre for Future Work

We have released a new report with the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work, looking at the impacts of heat stress on workers in Australia. Prepared by UTS researchers as part of the Too Hot to Work Project, the report outlines why working in climate...
Sweltering Cities

Sweltering Cities

A new project, Sweltering Cities, has just launched. With a focus on Western Sydney, the initiative is working with some of the hottest urban communities in Australia. Western Sydney has been described as an urban heat island, and last summer temperatures were close...
Heat in the Streets: Final Report

Heat in the Streets: Final Report

From January to September 2019, UTS researchers completed a project looking at how outdoor workers in the City of Sydney area were experiencing high heat and heat stress. The project was funded through a City of Sydney Council Innovation Grant.  The project focused on...
Construction workers in a climate precarious world

Construction workers in a climate precarious world

Project members Elizabeth Humphrys and Freya Newman have published an academic article in the Critical Sociology journal, titled ‘Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World’.  The article focuses on climatic heat stress as a matter of occupational health...