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🌡️ Safety Alert! 🌡️ As temperatures rise, so do the risks of heat illness. Whether you're working indoors or outdoors, it's crucial to stay vigilant. Everyone, from the front-line supervisors and safety professionals to each member of your crew, plays a role in heat illness prevention! It's especially important for new workers to take frequent rest breaks to beat the heat. Over 70% of heat fatalities occur during the first week of work, so extra caution is needed! Make safety a core value by working together to create a safer workplace. Use our website to learn more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e2GiMi4b #HeatSafety #HeatIllness #HeatPrevention
Mike Gobbo
3w
Acclimitization will be the hardest part of the new rule for employers to swallow.
Acclimate at 20% work load per day, as tolerated. Specialty drinks don't overcome failure to acclimate. What happens off work is also important in worker resiliency.
Pete Rubino
2w
Yes, lets all take the pledge to stop, reduce, prevent these avoidable illnesses and fatalities from occurring on all projects and outdoor activities. Heat exhaustion, Heat Stroke, fatalities. I just took my pledge for Proactive Safety Services, LLC www.proactivesafetyservicesnc.com
Joseph Crews
3w
It’s also a great idea to provide water or other beverages to encourage your team to stay hydrated.
There is such a mindset with a lot (not all) of older generations putting down acclimatization as not being “tough enough” to do the work, when in reality not allowing employees to do so can be detrimental to their health and safety.
This is good information from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It is important to remember that new workers are at a higher risk for heat illness.
Tyler King
3w
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Mapa de proceso, matriz de peligro y evaluación del riesgo y luego estandarización de controles críticos.
Tripp Smith
3w
Sword Performance, Inc. leading the way in the healthy hydration world.
Certified Athletic Trainer
3wPeripheral cooling using tap water (55°) remains unmatched when mitigating heat illness It also increases total worker output in hot weather conditions