FOR SUPERVISORS & MANAGERS!
2 hour training session

Heat stress is the overall heat burden on the body from a combination of body heat generated while working, environmental sources (air temperature, air movement, radiation from the sun or hot surfaces/sources) and clothing requirements. Heat stress occurs when the body’s means of controlling its internal temperature starts to fail. Employers have a duty to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker, including developing “hot environment” policies and procedures.

Indoors:

• Steel mills and foundries
• Boiler rooms
• Pulp and paper mills
• Electrical utilities
• Petrochemical plants
• Smelters
• Furnace operations
• Oil and chemical refineries
• Electrical vaults
• Interior construction and renovation

Outdoors:

• Road building
• Homebuilding
• Bridge construction/repair
• Trenching
• Pouring and spreading tar or asphalt
• Working on flat or shingle roofs
• Excavation and grading

Topics Covered Include:

• Personal risk factors
• Job factors
• How can heat stress be controlled
• Work procedures
• Heat stress safety checklist