Working in Hot Environments: A Health and Safety Guide leads the reader through health and safety law, outlining the employers’ and employees’ rights and responsibilities when it comes to preventing heat stress. The reader will gain a good understanding of occupational exposure limits and thermal comfort guidelines, as well as how heat exposure is measured. A section on legislative authorities in Canada and the US lists contact information and web links for easy reference.

The 96-page publication outlines how to use engineering and administrative controls for maintaining a comfortable, safe temperature and climate in the workplace, and also provides recommended personal protective equipment and sample safe work practices. A section on the different heat related illnesses, including heat strain and heat stroke, explains the seriousness of these potentially fatal conditions, how to recognize symptoms, and what to do if someone is exhibiting those symptoms.

Working in Hot Environments: A Health and Safety Guide is the sixteenth addition to this compact, easy-to-follow CCOHS Pocket Guide series. It serves as a handy resource for health and safety committee members and representatives as well as supervisors, managers, engineers and other health and safety professionals.

Heat exposure can be controlled. The guide emphasizes the importance of developing and implementing safe work practices to prevent or minimize workers’ exposure to extreme heat, and keep them healthy and safe.

A French-language edition of Working in Hot Environments: A Health and Safety Guide will be published later this year.

For further information contact:
Eleanor Irwin
Manager - Marketing, Sales and Communications
CCOHS
905.572.2981 X4408
eleanori@ccohs.ca