Personal Heat Stress Calculator

When wearing PPE, users such as first responders to emergency situations are concerned not only with the hazardous agents they may face, but also with ancillary issues such as physical stress and overexertion. The Heat Commander (formerly called the Heat Stress Calculator) provides a planning tool for first responders to assess and manage heat risk will wearing PPE. This personal digital assistant (PDA) allows the users to input workload, PPE configuration, and environmental conditions into the device to obtain optimal work/rest cycles for the first responder. The Heat Commander is commercially available from GEOMET Technologies, Inc. at: http://heatcommander.net.