Every employer, regardless of size or industry, has a fundamental responsibility to maintain a safe and healthy workplace. Doing so requires implementing effective programs and systems to identify, control,…
Key Takeaways: Rod Harvey of RHP Risk Management presented on a validation study on OSHA’s proposed heat stress acclimatization schedule at the Chicagoland Safety, Health & Environmental Conference on September…
Employers within industries that expose employees to high heat have updated guidance to better prepare and protect their workforce from potentially life-threatening conditions. Experts from the Department of Defense, American…
In what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is calling a “significant step toward a federal heat standard to protect workers”, the agency is issuing a Notice of Proposed…
Cal OSHA’s newly proposed indoor heat rule, “Heat Illness Prevention in Indoor Places of Employment” (Title 8, section 3396), has moved closer to approval and has potential for most California employers…
