Heat Stress - Additional Resources

Other Government Resources

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Safety and Health Topics: Heat Stress
Provides a guide to information regarding the recognition, evaluation, control, and compliance actions involving heat stress.

OSHA’s Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers
OSHA’s nationwide Heat Illness Prevention Campaign aims to raise awareness and teach workers and employers about the dangers of working in hot weather and provide valuable resources to address these concerns.

OSHA Technical Manual Section III: Chapter 4 – Heat Stress
Provides descriptions of heat disorders, investigative guidelines, sampling methods, control, and PPE.

OSHA Sawmills eTool: Heat Stresses

Provides information on the hazards of heat stress and possible solutions or controls.

OSHA Quick Card: Heat Stress
Provides heat stress factors, symptoms, prevention tips, and first aid recommendations.

OSHA Fact Sheet: Protecting Workers from Effects of Heat

Provides information that will help workers understand what heat stress is, how it may affect their health and safety, and how it can be prevented.

OSHA Fact Sheet: Working Outdoors in Warm Climates

Hot summer months pose special hazards for outdoor workers who must protect themselves against heat, sun exposure, and other hazards. Employers and employees should know the potential hazards in their workplaces and how to manage them.

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service: Heat Index

NOAA: NWS Heat Safety Tips
Provides general information regarding the recognition and control of heat stress.

Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA): Heat Stress – What to Do.
Provides documents related to heat stress in the mining industry.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): Wildland Fire Safety – Heat Stress
This brochure focuses on the risks of heat stress, and what the firefighter should do to minimize those risks.

Additional Resources

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) – Ergonomics of the Thermal Environment: Analytical Determination and Interpretation of Heat Stress Using Calculation of the Predicted Heat Strain

ANSI – Ergonomics of the Thermal Environment: Medical Supervision of Individuals Exposed to Extreme Hot or Cold Environments

ANSI – Hot environments: Estimation of the Heat Stress on Working Man, Based on the WBGT-index (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature)

NASD

• NASD: Keep Cool
  Outdoor worker flyer about heat stress.
• NASD: Dangers of Heat Stress
  Provides a script that can be used to deliver a 15-minute training session to employees. The text explains the impact that hot weather work can have on health, describes preventive measures, and touches briefly on first aid.
  En Español
• NASD: Heat Stress
  A flyer that will enable the reader with information to be able to identify symptoms of heat stroke and exhaustion, and know the emergency procedures for both.
  En Español