Life Safety

• Do-It-Yourself Safety Tips
  

Summer

• Keep your cool in Hot Weather
• Extreme Heat: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety
• Tips for Preventing Heat Related Illness
• Heat Stress in the Elderly
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Extreme Heat
• Heat Stress
• Skin Cancer: What You Should Know

• Summer Weather Dangers: How to Stay Safe
• Unintentional Drowning: Get the Facts
• Beach Safety Tips
• Video on How to Escape a Rip Current

Resources

MMWR: Heat-Related Deaths among Crop Workers, 1992-2006

CDC: Extreme Heat
Additional information on heat stress illnesses and prevention.
En Español

NIOSH: Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Hot Environments (Revised Criteria 1986)
This document presents the criteria, techniques, and procedures for the assessment, evaluation, and control of occupational heat stress by engineering and preventive work practices. Included are ways of predicting health risks, procedures for control of heat stress, and techniques for prevention and treatment of heat-related illnesses.

NIOSH: Working in Hot Environments
Workers who are suddenly exposed to working in a hot environment face additional and generally avoidable hazards to their safety and health. This publication discusses the safety and health consequences of heat stress.

OSHA-NIOSH INFOSHEET: Protecting Workers from Heat Illness

Health Hazard Evaluations

• Health Hazard Evaluation Report, HETA 2004-0334-3017, Transportation Security Administration, Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, Florida
• Health Hazard Evaluation Report, HETA 2003-0311-3052 , Evaluation of Heat Stress at a Glass Bottle Manufacturer, Lapel, Indiana
• Health Hazard Evaluation Report, HETA 2000-0061-2885, United States Air Force, Seymour Johnson air Force Base, Goldsboro, North Carolina

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 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.
• En Español
• OSHA Fact Sheet: Protecting Workers from Effects of Heat  [PDF - 22 KB] 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  [PDF - 25 KB] 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: Heat Wave - A Major Summer Killer  [PDF - 268 KB] 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.
• U.S. Army: Heat Index Calculator

Additional Resources

American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists: Product Store - Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices
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American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - Ergonomics of the Thermal Environment: Analytical Determination and Interpretation of Heat Stress Using Calculation of the Predicted Heat Strain
This document specifies a method for the analytical evaluation and interpretation of the thermal stress experienced by a subject in a hot environment. It describes a method for predicting the sweat rate and the internal core temperature that the human body will develop in response to the working conditions.
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ANSI - Ergonomics of the Thermal Environment: Medical Supervision of Individuals Exposed to Extreme Hot or Cold Environments
This International Standard provides advice to those concerned with the safety of human exposures to extreme hot or cold thermal environments.
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ANSI - Hot environments: Estimation of the Heat Stress on Working Man, Based on the WBGT-index (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature)
This document gives a method, which can easily be used in an industrial environment for evaluating the stresses on a individual. It applies to the evaluation of the mean effect of heat on man during a period representative of his activity but it does not apply to very short periods, nor to zones of comfort.
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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

• Texas A&M University - Texas Cooperative Extension: Coping with Hot Work Environments En Español

Winter

Be Prepared to Stay Safe and Healthy in Winter

Norovirus

• Surveillance for Norovirus Outbreaks