On April 6, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a pair of stakeholder meetings on the agency’s heat illness prevention activities and whistleblower protections in health care (87 Federal Register (FR) 19997, 19997).
Both meetings will be held virtually via Zoom. The stakeholder meeting on OSHA’s initiatives to protect workers from heat-related hazards is on May 3 from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, and the healthcare worker whistleblower stakeholder meeting is on May 18, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.
During the meeting, OSHA will present an overview of its ongoing activities to protect workers from heat-related hazards, including its compliance assistance and enforcement efforts, as well as its heat illness prevention rulemaking.
OSHA also is seeking comments regarding heat hazards from interested parties, including academia, business and industry, community-based organizations, labor unions, nongovernmental organizations, state and local governments, tribal governments, tribal/indigenous organizations, and individuals, including affected workers.
OSHA launched a series of heat hazard initiatives last fall following a White House announcement of interagency efforts to address climate hazards, including excessive heat. OSHA’s heat-related efforts include an enforcement initiative, a rulemaking for the first federal heat illness prevention standard, and a commitment to develop a heat stress National Emphasis...
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