Most people adjust well within 4-14 days, especially when using OSHA’s “Rule of 20 Percent.” This rule recommends workers ...

A year into his role as Baltimore's Department of Public Works director, Khalil Zaied promises the culture is shifting in his ...

Workers who are exposed to extreme heat or work in hot environments are at risk ... special issue on Heat Stress and Worker Health, Safety, and Well-being. This Special Issue of JESEE will focus ...

As political discourse becomes more heated across North America, new survey data reveals a troubling rise in workplace conflict, with potential consequences for health, safety, and overall morale. A ...

including those of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its implementation of the pending “Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings” rule ...

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is calling on employers to implement preventive measures against extreme heat as temperatures continue to rise ahead of the official summer season. In a ...

employers are providing safety measures to workers to protect them from extreme heat. Between 2012 and 2022, 418 people died from work-related exposure to heat across industries, according to the ...

But OSHA does not yet have a heat-specific safety rule, and proposals to create ... of the most common and most serious dangers in the workplace,” Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.), who recently co ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s workplace safety agency previously oversaw health operations at UPS, when heat seriously injured dozens of workers at the delivery company.

Months after a 36-year-old trash collector died on the job, state inspectors found that Baltimore's Department of Public ...

When Ronald Silver II died, no statewide workplace heat standard was in effect. And MOSH can’t fine public sector employers for safety violations. Legislation pending in Annapolis aims to change that.