The city of Boston is under a heat emergency due to extremely high temperatures. If you’re out, you want to make sure you’re staying cool and hydrated. Outdoor workers continued business as usual and ...

The world is getting hotter and workers need protection from the heat. But at a hearing Monday about a proposed heat regulation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Elizabeth Milito ...

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PLACE TO HELP PROTECT THEM IN THESE SCENARIOS. IT’S HARD TO BEAT THE HEAT WHEN YOUR JOB KEEPS YOU OUTSIDE DIED FOR WORKERS IN MANY INDUSTRIES, THERE’S NO AVOIDING IT. IT’S VERY HOT, UH, SWEATING. RICK ...

Ten summers ago, just outside the small north Florida town of Marianna about an hour from Tallahassee, I watched, helpless, as a man I call my brother nearly died from the brutal, unforgiving heat of ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Landscape, farm and construction workers are no strangers to Florida heat. Now, with a new state law banning heat protections for outdoor workers, some have concerns about how ...

We have heard the “one-size-fits-all” complaint before. “One size fits all,” explains the former OSHA official Jordan Barab in his worker-safety newsletter Confined Space, “is the kind of meaningless ...