Barcelona has begun to hand out heat-monitoring bracelets to its outdoor workers to act as an early warning system for health risks. The city has rolled out around 1,400 bracelets for staff working outdoors, including street cleaners, lighting crews, park workers and waste management employees.

Heatwave Concerns

With Spain already sweltering under successive heatwaves that caused more than 1,000 excess deaths in June, the city is taking measures to adapt to “increasingly aggressive” climate change, said Pep Llimona, prevention coordinator of the city’s parks and gardens service.

The bracelet measures the workers’ body temperature and emits a sound and vibration if it senses that the wearer is at risk. If that happens, they have to stop working. A number of street workers have died in recent years across Spain as temperatures spiked, prompting changes in working patterns and conditions.

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