Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports on Workers overwhelmingly backing the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) plans on proposing a mandatory Heat Protection Rule.  From 1992 to 2022, 1,042 U.S. Workers died due to occupational exposure to environmental heat, with an average of 34 fatalities per year.  And from 2011-2020, Workers suffered an average of 3,389 heat-caused injuries and illnesses every year.  That doesn’t count injuries from slowed decision-making and dulled reactions, also caused by excessive heat, OSHA noted.  Preventing such illnesses, injuries and deaths was the point of the overwhelming majority of the 16,332 people who’ve written OSHA so far, demanding it impose a specific standard mandating businesses which order their Workers to toil in extreme heat craft and implement plans to protect them against the injuries and even deaths from extreme heat.  Those plans would include frequent rest breaks when the temperature rises above 80 degrees Fahrenheit indoors or outside and more protection when heat soars above 110.  Employers would have to provide clean water and time to drink it, shade, monitoring Workers’ body temperatures and more.  And they’d have to train Workers - Unionized or not, in both how to protect themselves and what protection firms provide. 

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