The Heat List: Heat Stress Resources on the Internet

Cal/OSHA's Heat Illness Prevention Regulation (for all outdoor places of employment):
http://www.dir.ca.gov/Title8/3395.html

Resources From NIOSH and OSHA and the EPA...and the US Army:

  • Working Outdoors in Warm Climates - from OSHA
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_Hurricane_Facts/working_outdoors.pdf

  • Working in Hot Environments - from NIOSH
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hotenvt.html

  • "Extreme Heat" - from the CDC
    http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/faq.asp

  • "NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Heat Stress"
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/heatstress/

  • Protecting Workers in Hot Environments - from OSHA
    http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FACT_SHEETS&p_id=167

  • The Heat Stress Quick Card - from OSHA
    http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3154.pdf

  • Heat Stress in Agriculture - from the EPA
    http://are.berkeley.edu/heat/heat.stress.epa-98.guide.htm

  • Excessive Heat Events Guidebook - from the EPA
    http://www.epa.gov/hiri/about/pdf/EHEguide_final.pdf

  • Ranger and Airborne School Students Heat Acclimatization Guide - from the US Army
    http://www.usariem.army.mil/download/heatacclimatizationguide.pdf

    • Resources from California:

  • Heat illness prevention emergency regulation enforcement questions and answers - from Cal/OSHA
    http://www.dir.ca.gov/DOSH/heatIllnessQA.html

  • Heat Illness On The Job - in Cantonese, English, Hmong, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Vietnamese
    http://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/PSA_Page.html

  • Heat-Related Illness Prevention Resources New - from Cal/OSHA
    http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/HeatIllnessInfo.html

  • Cal/OSHA and Heat Stress - A Compendium of Cal/OSHA's Regulations Relating to Heat Stress
    http://www.baesg.org/coshheat.htm

  • History: Minutes of the Cal/OSHA Regulatory Development Advisory Committee On Heat Stress Control, December 9, 1999
    http://are.berkeley.edu/heat/heatrdac.meet12999.html

  • History: A Slightly Different Take on the Cal/OSHA Regulatory Development Advisory Committee On Heat Stress Control, December 9, 1999, from Organization Resource ounselors
    http://www.orc-sac.com/members/heat1299.html

  • Assembly Bill 805: Discussion from WorkSafe (PRO)
    http://www.worksafe.org/images/contentEdit/docs/FactSheet.AB805.pdf

  • Heat Stress Awareness - from UC Davis
    http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/5810/34452.pdf

    • Heat Stress Resource Links:

  • Surviving the Hot Weather - from the National Safety Council
    http://www.nsc.org/library/facts/hot.htm

  • Oklahoma State University
    http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/links/heat.htm

  • Intellicast: Enter ZIP Code, get Heat Index and forecast high
    http://www.intellicast.com

  • Heat Stress - an article by Richard Dresser, CSP, CET
    http://www.radpro.com/dresser.pdf

  • Heat Stress - Caltech Safety Office
    http://www.safety.caltech.edu/manuals/heat_stress.pdf

  • Heat Stress chapter from Stanford University Safety Manual
    http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/aboutus/documents/safetyman/heatstress.html

  • Heat Stress (Sun Stress)
    http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/FIRE/fireheat.html

  • "What is Heat Stress?" - from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
    http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/heat_health.html

    • Last Updated June 19, 2007

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