Outdoor workers face lethal heat exposure on the job
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Construction, farm, delivery and street workers are pushed to keep working through extreme heat by piece rates, dismissal fears, and absent regulation. Voluntary employer guidance has repeatedly failed, producing preventable deaths from Qatar to Madrid to the US Sun Belt.
#00194Statutory heat rules for outdoor work: WBGT stop-work thresholds, midday bans and funded inspections
National, enforceable heat rules for outdoor work: rest, shade, water and scheduling duties anchored on wet-bulb globe temperature stop-work thresholds rather than clock hours alone, backed by funded inspection capacity. Time-of-day bans by themselves miss dangerous humid days.
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