Cal/Osha strengthens the prevention of heat disease when the California temperatures rise
With increasing temperatures in California, employers are asked to take proactive steps in order to protect employees from the dangers of heat disease both indoors and outdoors.
Since the temperatures in California are increasing, Cal/Osha, a department of the Ministry of Industrial Education, is reminiscent of protecting their workers from heating sickness at internal and outdoor workplaces. Heat disease is dangerous and can be fatal.
Cal/Osha offers instructions, educational materials, model programs and other resources, including annual training courses that take place nationwide in English and Spanish. In cooperation with the Niseei Farmers League, Cal/Osha today organized training for the prevention of heat disease in Easton in order to prepare the agricultural workforce in California for the challenges of summer heat. This collaborative training has been taking place almost every year since 2008 to protect workers from heat disease and to emphasize the security requirements in California.
The participants gathered
What Cal/Osha boss Debra Lee said: “California workers, especially those who worked outdoors or in hot interior environments, are difficult risks through heat creation, dehydration and other serious conditions under high temperatures. Our goal is to ensure that employers and employees are prepared, informed and equipped to prevent the heating.”
Today's training focused on practical strategies for preventing heat diseases in work environments outdoors and indoors and requirements for the protection of employees during nightly agricultural operations.
According to California standards for the prevention of heat disorders, employers are legally obliged to carry out protective measures for employees outdoors and must protect workers at workplaces inside when the temperatures reach 82 degrees. Employers can be covered both in the interior and outdoor regulations if they have employees in every environment. Take a look at the comparison table for internal and outdoor heat diseases for prevention.
The special focus of CAL/OSHA of heat disease includes the enforcement of heat regulation as well as the multilingual public and training programs for California employers and employees in California. Additional resources to prevent heat diseases are available on 99Calor.org, and Cal/Osha also has an online tool for heat diseases for employers.
New agriculture
To remedy concerns in the agricultural industry, Cal/Osha started a unique task force and outreach unit that strengthen the enforcement, increase inspections on site and expand the resources in order to better achieve and protect employees.
This unit has been commissioned to implement, improve public relations and answering many years of concerns about health and security in the state agricultural sector in the agricultural sector of the state.