N3: Managing Heat Stress in the Workplace

Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Convention Center 

Room: 295 

CM Credit Hours: 1 

Heat stress is a significant and year-round physical hazard in many indoor, outdoor and underground occupations that deal with either local or environmental heat sources. To make matters worse, it's effects may be compounded when personal protective equipment (PPE) is involved. The impacts of heat stress can be serious, and it is critical to address this hazard to protect employees and your business from negative health effects, lost productivity, employee morale, and fines and penalties. It is paramount that both employers and workers develop an understanding of how to detect indicators of heat stress and prevent its occurrence.

In this session, you will learn about heat stress, thermoregulation, physiological responses, and heat related illnesses as well as the new Heat Stress Toolkit, which helps in assessment and detection of risk factors, and how to implement timely and proper controls to prevent heat stress.

Upon completion, the participant will be able to:
• Manage workplace heat exposure and heat related illness.
• Calculate heat stress exposure using the OHCOW heat stress calculator. 

Introductory

Exposure Assessment

Thermal Stressors

Work Environments, Occupations, and Industrial Processes

Education and training

Exposure Assessment

Risk assessment and management

Safety

Thermal stress protection and monitoring

In-person

OnDemand

Virtual

Practitioner

Case Studies

Practical Application

Small Group Discussion