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| 10/19/2018

"You don’t go to the bathroom; you don’t drink water."

-- Maria Pineda

Earlier this year, a team of nursing staff at Emory University released a study on the impact of heat stress on farmworkers in five communities in Florida — Pierson, Apopka, Immokalee, Fellsmere and Homestead — in partnership with the Farmworkers Association of Florida.

Of the 61 workers in Apopka who participated in the study, all of whom were Latinos, 43 percent began the workday dehydrated. By the end of their shift, up to 72 percent showed signs of dehydration. More than 80 percent had dangerous body temperatures on at least one workday, the study found.

Now, advocates in Florida are pushing for tougher standards for growers and construction companies to protect their employees, arguing that rising global temperatures will make outdoor work unsustainable without the proper regulations.

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.

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