
Heat illness affects thousands of indoor and outdoor workers each year and can tragically lead to death. Secretary Marty Walsh today joined Vice President Kamala Harris at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Training Center in Philadelphia to announce the new enforcement program. Through the program, OSHA will conduct heat-related workplace inspections before workers suffer completely preventable injuries, illnesses or, even worse, fatalities.

Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a National Emphasis Program to protect millions of workers from heat illness and injuries. WASHINGTON – For the first time, the U.S.

Secretary Walsh joins Vice President Kamala Harris to announce first ever nationalĮmphasis program to protect workers from indoor and outdoor heat hazards
