Oregon is in the midst of a hot, smoky summer. I watch the temperature and air quality index (AQI) every day. I organize my life around what to expect outside, especially given smoky air that will require a mask to keep 2.5 sized particulates out of my lungs as I breathe hard while exercising. I do dance three days per week. This class asks me to know and do spiritual, yoga, modern, ballet, and middle eastern dance. I also power walk for the other three days outside. I do have to be careful of heat and the amount of particulates in the air. Full disclosure: I am an older diabetic and I want to optimize my system! I work hard at this objective and I am succeeding. But, climate is important to those of us who are not fully healthy, especially due to a chronic disease like diabetes. Our climate is noticeably hotter and more smokey to me now than it was in 2005. This may just be a ‘blip’ over climate time. However, a review of climate science suggests we have caused this acceleration as well as what follows, and we can take steps to fix this issue over time. After all, the climate has responded dynamically to our actions for generations now, and this build-up of heat, smoke, and storm has been coming at us for a long time too. The Oregon Legislature has been called on to find long-term solutions. To that end, they have voted to pass a comprehensive climate change package that includes initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from building construction, land use, and natural resource management. It is important for Oregon to understand that while climate change has affected me and the rest of us as individuals, this change also affects individuals such as workers, industry owners, and managers. Climate change affects both workers and industry? Yes. And, the safety of workers and prosperity of our state do not have to be at odds. Together we can work to address climate change.
When it comes to the effects of climate over time, we must track selected numbers at selected locations and times. (e.g., ambient temperatures and air quality index) as we work and manage work over time by task. Even now we have heat index measures that are distributed throughout the school system by the state of Oregon. This helps keep students, teachers, and administrators healthy and functional regardless of ambient conditions. The climate package just passed by our legislature, which was supported by both Democrats and Republicans, acts to ensure the importance of worker health, the importance of industry economic prosperity, and balance these two numbers over time in terms of salary over cost of living and profit margin by year, month, and current events. This is a pragmatic approach to a difficult set of problems, which climate change presents to the Oregonian voter.
Finally, it is key to remember that greater heat and air quality affect not only workers, but the machines used by industry to help effect resource acquisition and use in Oregon and beyond our borders as we conduct business with our country and the world. Here are some of the climate conditions that can degrade machine as well as human performance by amount by event (yes, this includes computers and all their parts): 1) noise level, 2) heat level, 3) humidity level, 4) air flow efficacy, 5) dust concentration, 6) chemical concentrations, and 7) danger level.
Climate change affects everyone, workers and industry alike. This change hurts our performance and we can do something about this now and in the future. The Oregon legislature is to be commended for its current actions, and must continue to work towards ensuring our healthy future as Oregonians. This is a reassuring outcome as we continue to address climate change.
Because we have run into the climate wall where explanation is concerned, the following provides information and a point of view to help government and industry change their practices with respect to the relationship between government, industry, and workers.
We need the following things from government, industry, and workers:
Help Balance Labor Health With Industry Economic Prosperity!
This begs two questions:
•How is Worker Health Defined Numerically (salary amount and cost of living= a ratio)? This is a quantitative data point.
•How is Industry Prosperity Calculated? This is a quantitative data point.
We expect variability in these two metrics over time as seen above. They are linked. If we had the numbers to show this relationship over time, what would they show?
Positions
•Importance of worker health.
•Importance of industry economic prosperity.
•Balance between these two final numbers over time in terms of salary over cost of living, and industry profit margin by year, month, and current time and location.
•Importance of accurate and timely balance sheet data points for both numbers.
•Human health ranking by questionnaire (qualitative to ranked numerical data—Likert Scale).
•Industry profitability ranking by questionnaire (qualitative to ranked numerical data —Likert Scale).
Pro Data
I am pro-data. The more the better. More needs a good algorithm and the hardware to crunch the numbers. I support:
•Data Token Creation
•Tokenization Equation Design and Use
•Equation Deployment
•Possible Outcomes
•Decisions Based on Actual Outcomes
Example: Heat Index and Climate Change
Heat index can easily be represented to workers and industry as a numeric output that can guide behavior.
This is one example of how these limits can be represented to workers and industry in graphic form.
Climate-based Worker Performance Effects By Type
Workers gather together to support organizations with their labor over time. Industry treatment of human workers contributes to their well-being at all levels, including the private and working/industry levels. Worker productivity contributes to industry success. Thus, workers and Industry can work together to create the best possible industry structure for product production, marketing, and selling, and worker performance. A good working relationship between industry and worker is called for. Notice that even those who found and shepherd industrial companies are workers as well. We are serving ourselves all around.
Climate Effects on Human and Machine Performance
Human Cognitive Work Capacities
•Assessment of Each Unique Situation
•Group Mind Problem-solving Debate On Site
•Help of AI Datasets by Event Within a Defined Time Series
•Problem Solved By Event
•Problems and Solutions Added to Machine Datasets (Dataset Expansion)
Climate Condition Effects That Can Degrade Human and Machine Performance by Amount
•Noise Level
•Heat Level
•Humidity Level
•Air Flow Efficacy
•Dust Concentration
•Chemical Concentrations
•Danger Level
Specific Experience: Climate Experience: Scientific Lab Manager and Scientist
As a scientific laboratory manager, I supervised scientific technicians engaged in placing electroencephalography (EEG) nets on volunteer heads in a hot, basement laboratory. These technicians reported making more cognitive errors and being less patient in this hot environment. We worked to change the temperature and succeeded in optimizing worker performance in the less hot environment.
I also supervised the placing of EEG wiring across a dusty, hot wall by computer technicians. They reported the deleterious effect of this environment on their danger sense and ability to perform their jobs. We could do nothing about that environment, but I stayed onsite and talked them through the process to help optimize their technical performance. Manager and worker presence and input helps solve problems in a group setting manner. This arrangement is under work across industry at this time.
Goals: Dignity and Economic Prosperity for Workers and Industry: Jobs and Health
The Interface Experience: Homeostasis and Balance between Worker and Industry
We need an equality (equals sign) between Industry final profits by time and location and worker income commensurate with cost of living by time and location. There are more workers and fewer industries, how much profit by worker cost of living and health are required to keep growth happening and workers healthy and happy. Recall, we are smart enough to find a balance between these two numerical entities and leave whole income a plenty to keep industry going in the growth direction.
Keep Accepted Outcomes Simple!
Now we work on the fly to keep Industry prosperity and Worker prosperity in balance. We expect this will change over time as Industry and Workers change to meet current circumstances. This is a dynamic approach to economics and politics.
NOTES
Industry Prosperity Calculation, Small Business Example
Industry and Worker Calculations
•Worker Calculation: Individual mathematical definition is worker salary by total cost-of-living (includes education, healthcare, housing, food, and recreation) as a ratio
•How is worker health related to this ratio (the medical definition of human health)?
•Industry salary amount by worker job expectations and number are part of their equation.
Writer Experiences: Teresa D. Hawkes, Ph.D.
•Training, University of Oregon, Human Physiology.
•Examined long-term effect of exercise on normally-aging adult volunteers.
•Examined exercise effects on US Airmen.
•Neuroscience Lab Manager and Scientist
•Neuroscience and AI Research Consultant
Skills: Human Physiology & Neurophysiology, Inferential & Descriptive Statistics, Neuroscience, Neuropsychological Testing in Humans, Genetic Effects on Cognition by Genotype, Human Subjects Experimental Design, Medical Research Writing and Review.