US EditionProposed Heat Protection Rule for Workers Faces Delays, as Stakeholders Voice Concerns
- This week, Tempe’s local government approved updated measures aimed at protecting outdoor employees from the region’s intense summer heat.
- The regulations address growing worries about heat-related health risks and are modeled after protections already established in several nearby Arizona jurisdictions.
- The ordinance requires rest breaks every two hours, provision of water and shaded areas no more than a quarter-mile from work sites, formal training, and written heat safety plans for all city projects.
- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes praised the ordinance for advancing important protections aimed at minimizing heat-related health dangers and emphasized the focus on worker safety.
- The new rules require employers to implement clear emergency protocols and acclimatization procedures, signaling stronger protections for outdoor workers moving forward.
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Tempe Approves Strong Heat Safety Rules to Protect Outdoor Workers
TEMPE, Ariz. — In a major move to shield outdoor workers from Arizona’s extreme summer temperatures, the Tempe City Council has enacted new heat safety regulations requiring rest breaks, access to water and shade, and formal safety training. The updated guidelines, passed this week, apply to all city departments and contractors working on city projects. Under the new ordinance… Source
The Left Party wants to protect workers better from the summer heat. In times of the climate crisis, the break should be ten minutes longer in the office or on the street from already 26 degrees. The Greens support the plan, Union and AfD reject the idea as non-practical.
The left-wing boss Jan van Aken demands a kind of heat-free at the workplace. Starting at 26 degrees Celsius, the working time is to be reduced by a quarter.
Left-wing party chairman Jan van Aken calls in an action paper from a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius for the reduction of working time by a quarter. From 30 degrees onwards, only half as much work is to be done.
At 30 degrees only half as much work, more breaks already from 26 degrees: Thus the chairman of the left party proposes. The climate crisis is long since also a social one.
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