Maryland is poised to become the sixth state to enact protections against heat stress for outdoor workers in the face of federal inaction after the third hottest summer in 128 years.
Twenty-two states currently have their own workplace safety and health departments with federal permission to enact their own worker-safety legislation or regulations—as long as those rules meet minimum federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards.
A law enacted in 2020 (H.B. 722) gave Maryland’s Labor and Industry commissioner until Oct. 1, 2022, to develop and adopt regulations to protect employees for heat-related stress in the workplace. Joseph ...
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