Heat Illness Prevention 
Preventing and Responding to Heat Illness
Preventing heat illness protects your workers and is good business. Health and safety problems and other health problems like heart attacks and falls, may result from heat illness at the workplace. Heat illness may increase the costs of doing business by:
- Reducing employee productivity and efficiency
- Increasing your medical and emergency services costs
- Taking up supervisory and administrative time
- Increasing workers’ compensation premiums
Effective communication and the 10 elements listed below are keys to an effective program for preventing and responding to Heat Illness in your workplace.
Effect Communication
Elements of Your Written Program and Effective Work Practices
Preventing your employees from developing heat illness is good business. It will benefit your organization by reducing your costs because your employees will stay healthy and more productive. The best way to prevent and respond to heat illness is to put into place an effective written program.
Your Written Program Should Include the Following 10 Elements:
For more details on the 10 Elements listed above, go to:
For a sample of employer procedures, download: