Heat Stress in the Workplace Form

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[Music] hot temperatures impact countless workers each year for some this is only the case during the summer months but for others exposure to sweltering temperatures could be a year-long fact of life ing to the national institute for occupational safety and health workers who are exposed to extreme heat or work in hot environments may be at risk of heat stress heat stress can result in heat stroke heat exhaustion heat cramps or heat rashes some of the workers at risk include outdoor workers and those in hot environments such as firefighters bakery workers farmers construction workers miners boiler room workers and factory workers to name a few of the many occupations in fact the occupational safety and health administration reveals that millions of u.s workers are exposed to heat in the workplace osha goes on to state that although illness from exposure to heat is preventable every year thousands become sick from occupational heat exposure and some cases are fatal some of the occupati