To keep student-athletes safe in sweltering heat, some schools spend millions of dollars to build climate-controlled facilities for practice and competitions. Others buy their athletes individual ...
In response to one of the hottest summers on record for the state, the N.C. High School Athletic Association has protocols in place to protect student athletes from heat illnesses. Other WRAL Top ...
FOR WHEN IT COMES TO HEAT EXHAUSTION. WELL, OUR HEAT WAVE. IT CONTINUES TODAY. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HEAT ILLNESSES. BECAUSE DID YOU KNOW THE LAST DAY OF A HEAT WAVE, WHICH IS ...
The season’s most dangerous heat wave has arrived in Southern California, and yet many workplaces are not prepared. So says a new report by job safety advocacy nonprofit Worksafe that surveyed about ...
The deaths of at least 27 children and staff at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas have some parents and guardians questioning the safety of summer camps, especially as global warming increases risks ...
OSHA continues to advance efforts to develop a standard aimed at preventing heat-related injuries and illnesses in both outdoor and indoor work environments. This initiative reflects the growing risks ...
Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related work fatalities in the United States, with construction workers accounting for more than a third of all heat-related deaths. As average daily ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The view from a drone of farmworkers harvesting tomatoes Friday in Woodland. Though it was not yet noon, the temperature was ...
Wisconsin has been experiencing an extremely hot summer, with nearly 40 days of above-average heat. That can be a serious health concern for people who work outdoors, but there aren't many protections ...
The season’s most dangerous heat wave has arrived in Southern California, and yet many workplaces are not prepared. So says a new report by job safety advocacy nonprofit Worksafe that surveyed about ...
Two decades after California enacted a landmark heat safety law, farmworkers are still getting sick and sometimes dying from preventable heat illness. Cal/OSHA says it is working to improve ...
Though it was not yet noon, the temperature was already inching toward triple digits, and it felt even hotter for the scores of farmworkers hunched in the rows of watermelon plants in this field ...