Preventing Workplace Heat Illness - Indoor and Outdoor

“Heat is the leading cause of death among all weather-related phenomena in the US.” -- OSHA, This 30-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. It includes excerpts from a 4/24/24 presentation on the current draft of new OSHA standards that may go into effect in 2025.  This version does not include the new Cal/OSHA §3395 Heat Illness Prevention in Outdoor Places of Employment. For that version, please see “Preventing Workplace Heat Illness – Indoor and Outdoor – With New CA Regulations.”

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

  • Contact Hours: 0.75  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.
  • Recognize 5 provisions currently in the OSHA draft heat injury and illness standard.

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

Pricing

Single Seat - $19

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 $19.00

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