Preventing Workplace Heat Illness - Indoor and Outdoor - California Version

“Heat is the leading cause of death among all weather-related phenomena in the US.” -- OSHA, This 60-75 minute e-learning course will give you the tools to understand what heat stress/heat illness is, how to prevent it, and how to help a co-worker suffering heat illness symptoms.
This course is for employers, supervisors and workers in California. It is an in-depth training in the current Cal/OSHA outdoor regulation and the new indoor regulation that went into effect on July 24, 2024. For a course applicable to non-California and international workers, please see “Preventing Workplace Heat Illness - Indoor and Outdoor.”

Includes links to free heat stress tools from AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association).


  • Contact Hours: 1.25 hours  
  • Accreditation Agency:  Phylmar Academy, a division of The Phylmar Group, Inc.

Who Will Benefit from This Course?

Supervisors and managers, union and worker health and safety representatives, workers and anyone who is interested whose workplace is exposed to extreme heat, either indoor or outdoor.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

  • Identify the symptoms of heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
  • Discuss how to acclimatize a new worker.
  • List 4 conditions the body’s reaction to heat is affected by.
  • Explain best practices for fluid replacement.
  • Identify 5 prevention work practices.
  • Assist another person who is having a heat illness emergency.

California Regulations Module

  • Identify the conditions under which an indoor work area is subject to all provisions of this standard.
  • Compare and contrast indoor and outdoor rules for shade/cool-down area.
  • List 3 actions an employer must take in high heat conditions (outdoor) and emergency response (indoor and outdoor).
  • Act appropriately when an emergency response is necessary.
  • List 5 requirements for employee training.
  • List the 4 requirements to be included in the Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Plan that apply to both indoor and outdoor.

Topics Include

  • What Heat Can Do
  • Acute Heat Impacts
  • Prevention Strategies
  • What to Do in a Heat Illness Emergency
  • OSHA’s Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Rulemaking
  • Excerpts from OSHA’s Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Rulemaking Presentation

California Regulations Module

  • Scope and Application
  • Drinking Water
  • Shade and Cool-Down Areas
  • Cool-down Rest Periods
  • High Heat
  • Assessment and Control Measures
  • Emergency Response
  • Acclimatization
  • Training
  • Heat Illness Prevention Plan


Pricing

Single Seat - $39 

For bulk pricing or to license the course for unlimited users, please contact info@phylmar.com for additional discounts.

The course certificate of completion acknowledges completion of a specific course; it does not certify the participant to perform any particular work or task.

single seat introductory $39.00

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