Calif. Employers Should Sweat Over Heat-Illness Rules

Law360, New York (June 18, 2015, 5:31 PM EDT) -- As summer continues and temperatures rise, the need for California employers with employees that regularly work outdoors, such as in the agricultural, construction and oil and gas industries, to review their compliance with the state's heat-illness prevention standards, C.C.R. Title 8, Section 3395, becomes all the more important. This is especially true in light of California's new cool-down "recovery period" law that went into effect last year, and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health's ("Cal/OSHA") amendments to its heat-illness prevention regulations that just went into effect May 1....

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