Tag: DOSH

Train Workers to Prevent Heat Illness

By Heather Hunt Jul 29, 2014 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jul 29, 2014

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) provides heat illness prevention training to employers throughout the state. DOSH has also published the training program, in both English and Spanish, on the agency’s heat illness prevention website at www.dir.ca.gov/DOSH/HeatIllnessInfo.html. The training program covers what DOSH considers to be the essential components of its heat […]

Do Your Workers Know How to Prevent Heat Illness?

By Heather Hunt Jul 28, 2014 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jul 28, 2014

In 2005, a dozen California workers died of heat illness—a toll that resulted in the promulgation of the nation’s first heat illness prevention regulation. In 2009, California/OSHA conducted more than 3,400 inspections at worksites considered “high risk” for heat illness. The agency shut down 16 worksites that posed an imminent heat hazard and issued nearly […]