The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued two new resources on preventing heat illness in the workplace, including a fact sheet on “Young Workers and Heat Illness” addressing precautions that young workers should take before starting work in the heat and a short customizable conversation guide that includes a five-step, five-minute conversation that employers, managers, and supervisors can have with workers to plan for necessary actions to take in the event of a heat emergency.
OSHA also reissued three previously released heat illness resources, including the Prevent Heat Illness at Work poster for workplaces to serve as a reminder on how to prevent heat illness at work, its pamphlet on Personal Risk Factors and Heat Exposure addressing how to identify factors that may reduce tolerance to heat, and its Heat Emergency Wallet Card, which provides an overview of the signs of a heat emergency and what to do when one happens at work.