Punching In: What’s In the Cards for OSHA Heat-Stress Rulemaking

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Bruce Rolfsen: American workers will start the spring without the protection of a federal heat-stress standard.

While Democratic lawmakers have called for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to adopt a heat-stress prevention rule, the development of the regulation is taking a back seat to drafting Covid-19 and infectious disease regulations.

“These are health-oriented standards and all involve the same teams, essentially, that are working on them,” Doug Parker, who oversees OSHA as the assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, ...