Washington — A Spanish-language version of a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences resource intended to help employers identify and implement steps to protect workers from heat stress is now available.
The Building Blocks for a Heat Stress Prevention Training Program is organized into five sections (with checklists) and an appendix. The sections cover:
- How to determine heat stress
- Training, approaches and resources needed for a heat stress management program
- How heat is controlled in the workplace
- What makes heat stress worse?
- Approaches to ensure workers’ rights
The appendix features two tables from the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists on threshold limit values and action limit values for heat stress.
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The resource is especially useful for workers in construction, transportation, agriculture, disaster response and recovery, “and many other jobs that are vulnerable to the impacts of heat stress,” NIEHS says.
