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Unlike outdoor heat stress, which spikes during summer heat waves, indoor heat stress is often chronic, cumulative and harder to spot. Workers may not feel the immediate alarm of extreme temperatures, ...

However, researchers noted nearly 40% of indoor workers in retail stores—a group historically omitted from heat standards and regulations—regularly experience at least 80-degree temperatures at work. ...

California’s Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board voted Thursday afternoon to implement rules protecting indoor workers from extreme heat. California now joins just two other ...

This summer in California, there was big news. People who work indoors in places like warehouses and restaurants were getting protections from working in dangerous heat. The next step - getting ...

I am related to a security officer who works in the interior of the University. On a heartbreaking phone call recently, they informed me that raises have allegedly been given out to officers who work ...