Arandara, KPJayasinghe, CJayasinghe, MTRRatnayake, N2022-05-042022-05-042011-12Arandara, K.P., Jayasinghe, C., & Jayasinghe, M.T.R. (2011). Evaporative cooling for occupational health in tropical climates. In N. Ratnayake (Ed.), Proceedings of the Civil Engineering Research for Industry Symposium 2011 (pp.107-112). Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa.http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17786Occupational health is a cross disciplinary area concerned with protecting the health of people engaged in work or employment. If is increasingly becoming a serious concern for industries and companies to safeguard the well-being of their employees. When address the physical hazards under occupation health, provision of thermal comfort is very important, especially to avoid hyperthermia condition which could be a vital issue in tropical climates. Hlence, there should be a HVAC system like Evaporative cooling which has best performances in terms of thermal comfort as well as the occupational health. Evaporative cooling is a best alternative for providing thermal comfort environment as it is very much energy efficient and also it could control the spreading of Biological hazards such like bacteria, virus and fungi.enOccupational healthThermal comfortEvaporative coolingPhysical hazardsBiological hazards.Conference-Full-textEngineeringDepartment of Civil Engineering2011Civil Engineering Research for Industry Symposium 2011Katubeddapp. 107-112Proceedings of the Symposium on Civil Engineering Research for Industry 2011chintha@uom.lkarandarak@yahoo.comthishan@uom.lk