Health and Safety Law Report

OSHA is inching closer to adopting a standard for heat illness prevention. In this smokin' hot episode of the Health and Safety Law Report, your intrepid hosts discuss the likely contents of the new standard, and also talk about what OSHA expects employers to do right now to protect employees from heat hazards.

For more information, please see OSHA's heat stress web page.

See also the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health's agenda and notes from it April 24, 2024, meeting regarding the new standard.

And here is the transcript from that meeting.