Just because something is simple, doesn’t mean it can’t feel complicated. That’s just the situation many safety professionals find themselves in – they realize they need to step up their heat safety program but aren’t sure where to start. The internet is full of outdated, incomplete, and even wrongheaded advice, and the news is full of dire predictions that the world is getting hotter and heat illness is getting more frequent. So what’s a concerned safety manager to do? The good news is that many scientists and safety experts have been thinking the same thoughts and getting down to the business of solving the problem.
That’s just what 30 heat safety experts did in 2021 as they gathered their knowledge and experience to put together a simple 8-step plan that was reviewed and accepted by the scientific organization, American Geophysical Union (AGU). The plan covers all the bases of heat safety with actionable solutions you can start implementing today. This advice couldn’t have come at a better time as this 100% preventable problem claims lives and causes severe injuries every day on the job and is predicted to cause hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of productivity losses by the year 2050.