OSHA Launches Heat Illness Campaign; Industry Braces For General-Duty Enforcement

OSHA has launched a new national push to make employers aware of heat exposure hazards in the workplace, which the agency says accounts for thousands of worker illnesses every year. While the agency is billing its new campaign as largely an educational drive, industry attorneys tell Inside OSHA Online they fully expect OSHA to ramp up enforcement using the OSH Act general duty clause -- making the point that OSHA already made outreach on heat illness the priority of an earlier campaign. The agency said Monday (May 7) it has kicked off the initiative to educate both workers and employers about