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Deadly Heat
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.
Solutions
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.
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- Health Care Access
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- Deadly Heat
Deadly Heat
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.
Solutions
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.
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