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Heat Safety

New report says illness, injury, fatalities, and $100 billion is the cost of heat stress inaction by employers each year

December 1, 2022

While outdoor worksites may feel like they have time to prepare as winter approaches, the heat continues to impact workers inside glass plants, steel plants, and other worksites with hot hazards.


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What OSHA’s National Emphasis Program means for employers

Tom Sumner, CIH, CSP, CHMM Warren J. Guillot, Jr., CSP
June 16, 2022

OSHA is forming a National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Work Group to provide better understanding of challenges and to identify and share best practices to protect workers. What does this mean for employers?


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OSHA cites Florida company after worker dies in extreme heat in national forest

February 3, 2022

Working in the recesses of Apalachicola National Forest on a July day as temperatures neared 100 degrees, the supervisor of two crews hired to clear invasive plants saw one 42-year-old worker was sweating heavily, his hands were trembling, and he seemed confused, unable to respond to commands.


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U.S. Department of Labor announces enhanced, expanded measures to protect workers from hazards of extreme heat, indoors and out

September 23, 2021

To combat the hazards associated with extreme heat exposure – both indoors and outdoors – the White House this week announced enhanced and expanded efforts the U.S. Department of Labor is taking to address heat-related illnesses.

 


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Data from smart PPE makes for smarter heat safety programs

Sensing danger: Data from smart PPE makes for smarter heat safety programs this summer

Heidi Lehmann Ryan Smith, CSP
April 13, 2021
Garney Construction trialed a new continuous monitoring smart PPE system, comprised of sensors worn on the arm of its workers and technology that collects data to signal when the worker may be headed for trouble while working in the heat.
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Stay healthy in the heat

Stay healthy in the heat

“We’d keep buckets of ice in the dugout”
Cal pic
Cal Ripken Jr.
June 1, 2015
Over the course of a 162-game Major League Baseball season, players will do anything to beat the heat.


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No fun for heat-exposed amusement park workers

January 14, 2015

A teenaged worker at an outdoor amusement park was burned after collapsing near a food stand fryer from excessive heat on June 9, 2014. An OSHA investigation into the incident found that seasonally-employed workers, mostly teen employees, hired as outdoor and food stand staff at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa. were exposed to heat hazards during their summer employment.


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Stay a step ahead

New ASTM standards for safety footwear
Matt Gould
December 5, 2011
ASTM International continues to change and adapt as the need arises to provide the safety footwear market with a set of standards and test methods that continue to improve safety footwear. 


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