The Kestrel Wet Bulb Heat Stress Tracker, Wind Meter & Weather Meter from Turf-Tec is ideal for FIFA and professional athletes, athletic trainers, coaches and Sports Turf Managers. This unit will insure you meet local and regional sports requirements for player and participant safety measurements for heat stress. With its revolutionary small size, low cost and capability for those in need of measuring Heat Stress, it is also ideal for monitoring any outdoor employees who are subjected to heat stress. Unit also available with or without (Bluetooth) LiNK.
Along with having a Wet Bulb Global Temperature (WBGT) reading, the Kestrel Wet Bulb Heat Stress Tracker, Wind Meter & Weather Meter displays Thermal Work Limit (“TWL”), another recognized composite heat stress prediction tool. For both WBGT and TWL, the unit provides on-screen alarms when conditions enter the caution and danger zones, providing clear and immediate guidance that heat illness prevention steps must be taken. Clothing levels can also be customized, making the Kestrel Wet Bulb Heat Stress Tracker, Wind Meter & Weather Meter particularly useful in activities requiring heavy protective gear like football which worsens heat stress. The unit also displays natural wet bulb temperature, and black globe temperature. USA made meter backed by a 5-year warranty. The Bluetooth model allows you to use a free app or download data to your computer.
Athlete deaths from heat exposure are on the rise. Warming summers have been accompanied by weekly reports of athletes young and old collapsing from severe heat-induced illness. OSHA is campaigning to prevent heat illness in outdoor workers and reports that every year thousands of workers become sick working in the heat, and some even die. In every instance, accurate and localized measurement of heat stress conditions is a key component of any heat illness prevention plan.
Human heat stress results from a combination of many environmental factors – air temperature and humidity along with radiant heat from the sun and surfaces, balanced by the cooling effect of breezes or air flow. Anyone who has stood under welcome shade adjacent to a sizzling parking lot understands that these conditions must be evaluated exactly where peoples’ activities are taking place. The most common composite measurement used to determine appropriate exposure to heat stress conditions is Wet Bulb Globe Temperature or “WBGT.” The American College of Sports Medicine, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, and the US Military all have published threshold limit values (TLV’s) or reference guidelines for conditions, activity levels and hydration based on WBGT, clothing levels and acclimatization of participants.
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