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California Increases Enforcement of Indoor Heat Safety Regs

August 24, 2022

Via: SHRM
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California’s outdoor heat illness prevention standard is well known by employers with employees who commonly work outside. While there is no official indoor heat illness standard, employers still need to consider heat hazards when evaluating workplace safety, especially in light of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s National Emphasis Program (NEP) for outdoor and indoor heat-related hazards.

Although the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has been working on a proposed standard to cover heat illness prevention in indoor places of employment since 2017, to date the standard has not been approved. Despite no formal standard, Cal/OSHA is stepping up enforcement of indoor heat hazards, presumably due to the NEP, under California’s version of the General Duty Clause: Title 8 Cal. Code Regs., Section 3203.

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