La Isla Network will host two interns from January to May 2024, during which they will conduct in situ visits to partner mills in Central America. The interns, Ludwig Östberg and Jakob Johansson, will draft a business model for La Isla Network, and will evaluate the market needs and on-the-ground realities for monitoring technology that detect heat stress.
With the increasing risk of heat stress in supply chains the world over, businesses are choosing to be proactive by preventing heat stress among their workforces. The threat of increasing heat will be dire, causing worker deaths and major financial losses. Even companies in temperate zones will be affected.
The work realized by Östberg and Johansson will provide critical information on the potential uses the application will have in markets outside of sugarcane in Central America.
Östberg and Johansson hope the project will have a lasting impact on LIN and the workforces we protect. They said, “We are both seeing this as an opportunity to gain some valuable experience and help us refine the skills we have gathered with our degree.” They study Industrial Engineering and Management at the Engineering Faculty at Lund University in Sweden.
La Isla Network generates data-driven organizational change management and workforce protection protocols to address occupational injuries and illnesses and labor issues throughout the entire supply chain. In the changing climate, workers are more at risk than they ever have been. Heat stress, trafficking, forced labor, and child labor pose ever greater risks to workers and businesses. Through our world class global research, La Isla Network has learned what it takes to keep workers safe.
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