That lesson, however, has not stuck with many employers, and 20 years after California enacted a landmark heat safety law, farmworkers across the state are still getting sick and sometimes dying ...

That lesson, however, has not stuck with many employers, and 20 years after California enacted a landmark heat safety law, farmworkers across the state are still getting sick and sometimes dying ...

Other government bodies are looking to ramp up the state’s heat illness protections as well. Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to strengthen both the outdoor heat standard and smoke ...

After an unusually hot – and deadly – summer in 2005, California adopted and implemented the nation's first outdoor workplace heat illness prevention regulations, reducing heat-related deaths in the ...

In this way, the heat illness prevention program would serve as a key component of a broader well-being program modeled by the recently published global standard ISO 45003:2021 - Psychological ...

Relative to work-related heat situations, it is estimated that more than 1,300 deaths per year in the United States are due to extreme heat. 1 Heat-related illness and death is preventable, but it ...

We encourage all school leaders – coaches, band directors, athletic directors and others – to take the free online courses – Heat Illness Prevention and Band Safety – at www.nfhslearn.com.

The state’s heat illness prevention enforcement system “isn’t working.” The view from a drone of farmworkers harvesting tomatoes Friday in Woodland.