Heat Illness

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA has strongly recommended the use of face coverings in the workplace to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Face coverings, either cloth face coverings or surgical masks, are simple barriers that help prevent Read more...

Americans work in a variety of hot and/or humid environments. And with hot environments come safety and health problems. Heat tends to promote accidents due to the slipperiness of sweaty palms, dizziness or the fogging of safety glasses. If it is an Read more...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA has strongly recommended the use of face coverings in the workplace to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Face coverings, either cloth face coverings or surgical masks, are simple barriers that help prevent Read more...

The following incidents are from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) case files: A worker at a Brooklyn recycling facility died due to heat illness. The employee had been working for several hours on a Read more...

California, which has its own OSHA-approved workplace safety and health program, is reminding employers to review high temperature advisories in effect across the state.The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings Read more...

OSHA recently cited Middleburg, Florida-based Southeastern Subcontractors Inc. for failing to protect employees from the dangerous hazards of working outdoors in extreme heat. OSHA investigated the roofing company after an employee died from Read more...

The dog days of summer often bring soaring temperatures. Therefore, now is a good time to make sure workers in hot conditions are protected from heat illness, which claims dozens of employee lives every year. Cal/OSHA has a heat illness prevention Read more...