Workers prepare food in a ghost kitchen for a Main Chick Hot Chicken in Los Angeles. (Patrick T. Fallon/Los Angeles Times) More than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms ...

Admire Stewart takes a deep breath and sits still while a breeze hits her face. Her gallon-sized water bottle is by her side. “Right now I have a migraine because of the heat yesterday and I have heat ...

The federal government remains intent on turning up the heat on employers to keep workers safe in the heat — whether they’ll prevail remains an open question. The U.S. Department of Labor’s ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a proposed standard addressing heat illness in outdoor and indoor settings in the Federal Register. The proposed rule would ...

Hunter Leveille, of Enfield, New Hampshire, brings the propane line back to his truck after filling a homeowner’s tanks on the Quechee-West Hartford Road in Hartford, in February 2021. Photo by Geoff ...

The proposed rule requires employers with more than 10 employees to develop a written heat injury and illness prevention plan. Core requirements include heat hazard identification, implementation of ...

The Biden administration finally proposed federal heat protection standards last week, more than half a century after federal experts first outlined the need for such rules. The Nixon administration ...

Members of the House Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure and Senate Committee on Natural Resources took testimony Thursday morning on proposed rules for the clean heat standard. The Public ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont regulators this week announced it will cost Vermonters nearly a billion dollars over the next decade to implement a so-called “Clean Heat Standard.” Vermont lawmakers ...

More than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms and other hot indoor settings across California are now protected by new safety measures that went into effect on Tuesday.