Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

With high temperatures increasingly affecting indoor workplaces, a newly enhanced mobile app offers real-time heat stress monitoring, health alerts, and risk assessment tools for employers and ...

Heat stress—which encompasses conditions like heatstroke, exhaustion and cramps—poses significant threats to worker health and safety. It doesn't discriminate, impacting workers across sectors ...

Addressing heat stress is essential not only for the health and safety of workers but also for maintaining productivity and preventing accidents. Heat stress occurs when the body cannot cool itself ...

However, OSHA may have surprised some employers and employee advocacy groups by announcing an extension to its National Emphasis Program (NEP) on Outdoor and Indoor Heat-Related Hazards through ...

For several years, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working on a safety standard intended to address worker exposure to heat stress and related medical issues.

If finalized, the measure would protect an estimated 36 million U.S. workers from injuries related to heat exposure on the job — establishing the first major federal safety standard of its kind.

A 30-year-old farm worker in North Carolina died last September on a day that was fairly typical for the state. Temperatures were in the mid-90s and the heat index, which includes humidity, was 96 ...

Increasingly, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA ... Designating a program administrator for implementing an employer's heat-stress measures based on wet bulb globe ...

Along with stifling days comes the risk of developing dangerous heat-related conditions, such as dehydration, heat stress ... that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...