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Know the signs of heat illness — Process Safety Beacon, May 2025
Know the signs of heat illness — Process Safety Beacon, May 2025
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon May 2025
- Occupational Health
- Heat stress
- Personal protective equipment
- Emergency response
- Construction
Summary
This bulletin uses a fatal heat-illness incident on a New York road construction project to explain workplace heat risks. It discusses dehydration, indoor heat exposure and heat retained by protective clothing, recommending frequent water intake, monitoring colleagues, gradual exposure and scheduling strenuous work for cooler periods where possible.
Classifications: Heat stress; heat exhaustion; heatstroke.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Summary
One-page Beacon on recognising the signs and symptoms of heat illness in the workplace.
Process Safety Beacon May 2025. Themes: occupational health.