ere are examples of some schedules.
Back in 1986, NIOSH developed a Recommended Standard for Occupational Exposure to Hot Environments. This book gives you background, control, prevention, and measuring information. The chapters include: Recommendations for a Standard, Introduction, Heat Balance and Heat Exchange, Biologic Effects of Heat, Measurement of Heat Stress, Control of Heat Stress, Preventive Medical Practices, Indices for Assessing Heat Stress and Strain, Research Needs, and References. There are links at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/86-113.html that will allow you to download the book in one file or several chapters to a file, which may be easier on some systems.
If you or your employees will be working in hot environments, ease yourself into the work and follow the Recommendations for Workers on CDC’s Heat Stress Topics page at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/heatstress/. Many of these publications on the OSHA and NIOSH websites can either be downloaded or you can order copies to be mailed to you for free.
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Editor's note: This article has now been translated into Serbo-Croatian language by Jovana Milutinovich from Webhostinggeeks.com.
This article originally appeared in the March 2012 issue of Occupational Health & Safety.
Barry R. Weissman, REM, CSP, CHMM, CHS-V, CIPS, is Corporate Safety Manager for a national manufacturing company in the chemical sector. A member of the editorial advisory board of Occupational Health & Safety magazine, he can be reached at RegulatoryMavin@yahoo.com.