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  As climate change reshapes American lives, it also is making the workplace deadlier. Hundreds of workers have died from heat exposure over a decade. Industry and government protections are often failing.
  
  Hundreds of Workers Have Died From Heat in the Last Decade – And It’s Getting Worse
  
  Why California Workers Are Still Dying From Heat Despite Protections
  
  Heat Illness Keeps Overtaking California Firefighters During Training
  
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  As Nation Gets Hotter, Efforts to Prevent Worker Heat Deaths Accelerate, But Fixes Aren’t as Simple as They Seem
  
  Heat Safety on the Job
  
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t have a heat standard to enforce, but does make the following recommendations to employers in high-risk industries:
  
  Encourage workers to drink water every 15 minutes.
  Make sure workers take frequent rest breaks in the shade.
  Create an emergency plan to follow if a worker shows signs of heat-related illness.
  Train workers about the dangers of heat.
  Let workers acclimatize, or build up a tolerance, to the heat.
  
  Find more resources at: www.osha.gov/heat-exposure and www.migrantclinician.org/issues/heat.
  
  About the Project
  
  "Deadly Heat" is a data-driven investigation that involved analysis of hundreds of federal and state records and data sets and scores of interviews. Partners in the project included:
  
  Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School in New York.
  National Public Radio.
  The California Newsroom and The Texas Newsroom, two public radio collaboratives that included KPCC, LAist, KERA and Houston Public Media.
  Public Health Watch, an independent nonprofit news organization.
  
  The project was supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
  
  Updates
  
  Biden Administration Is Adding Worker Protections to Address Extreme Heat
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Public Health Watch is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization funded primarily by grants from foundations and donations from individuals. Our fiscal sponsor is The Texas Democracy Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that publishes the Texas Observer. The sponsorship means gifts to Public Health Watch are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

We are grateful to all contributors for making our in-depth accountability journalism possible. Here are foundations that have donated $5,000 or more in 2020 or 2021:

Arnold Ventures

High Tide Foundation

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Deadly Heat

Hundreds of Workers Have Died From Heat in the Last Decade – And It’s Getting Worse

Why California Workers Are Still Dying From Heat Despite Protections

Heat Illness Keeps Overtaking California Firefighters During Training

Solutions

As Nation Gets Hotter, Efforts to Prevent Worker Heat Deaths Accelerate, But Fixes Aren’t as Simple as They Seem

Heat Safety on the Job

About the Project

Updates

Biden Administration Is Adding Worker Protections to Address Extreme Heat

Deadly Heat

Hundreds of Workers Have Died From Heat in the Last Decade – And It’s Getting Worse

Why California Workers Are Still Dying From Heat Despite Protections

Heat Illness Keeps Overtaking California Firefighters During Training

Solutions

As Nation Gets Hotter, Efforts to Prevent Worker Heat Deaths Accelerate, But Fixes Aren’t as Simple as They Seem

Heat Safety on the Job

About the Project

Updates

Biden Administration Is Adding Worker Protections to Address Extreme Heat

Arnold Ventures

High Tide Foundation

The Passport Foundation

Forsythia Foundation

Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation

St. David’s Foundation

Episcopal Health Foundation

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