Do you have employees that primarily work outdoors? Is so, know this…outdoor workers are at particular risk of developing skin cancer due to prolonged, often, year-round exposure to ultraviolet rays. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, outdoor workers experience twice the amount of nonmelanoma skin cancers (basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas ) as indoor workers.
The Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund of North America recognizes this danger and has been building awareness about these dangers to its members for years through sun-safety awareness posters and anecdotal and informational newsletter articles like this one: “Skin Cancer and Construction Laborers: Something New Under the Sun”.
Those Harmful Rays
The sun emits two types of UV light that we need to be concerned with when it comes to skin protection: UVA and UVB.
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