Press release
Fresno– Since the temperatures in California are increasing, Cal/Osha, a department of the Ministry of Industrial Relations, is reminiscent of protecting their workers from heat at internal and external 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.
What Cal/Osha boss Debra Lee said: “In California workers, in particular those who worked outdoors or in hot interior environments, are exposed to serious risks at high temperatures through heat creation, dehydration and other serious conditions. Our goal is to ensure that employers and workers are prepared, informed and equipped to prevent heat.”
Today's training focused on practical strategies for preventing heat diseases in both the outdoor work environments and in the interiors and requirements to protect employees during nightly agricultural operations.
According to Californian standards for heat diseases, employers are legally obliged to carry out protective measures for workers outdoors and must protect workers at workplaces in interiors 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 thermal sickness includes the enforcement of heat regulation as well as multilingual public and training programs for California employers and employees. 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.
About Cal/Osha
Cal/Osha helps workers before working in health and security at working in almost every workplace in California.
The employees in California are protected independently of immigration status. Workers who have questions about security and health at work can call between 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday at 833-579-0927 to speak to a bilingual live representative of Cal/Osha. Complaints about security and health risks in the workplace can be submitted confidentially in CAL/OSHA district office.
Employers who have questions or need support for health and security programs at the workplace can call the CAL/OSHA industry at 800-963-9424.