Federal and State OSHA Heat Illness Prevention

As temperatures began to rise, employers renewed their focus on heat illness prevention. Although Fed OSHA had made significant progress toward promulgating a heat illness prevention standard for both outdoor and indoor work settings during the Biden Administration, it stopped short of the finish line. Fed OSHA, however, still had many enforcement tools at its disposal. Additionally, many OSH State Plan states had promulgated their own heat illness prevention standards, including California (separate standards for outdoor and indoor heat), Washington (outdoor heat), Oregon (single standard for both outdoor and indoor heat), Minnesota (indoor heat and cold stress), Maryland (single standard for both outdoor and indoor heat), and Nevada (single standard for both outdoor and indoor heat). Employers began getting ready to implement heat illness prevention and mitigation measures, first and foremost to protect their employees and to avoid potential OSHA citations. We hosted a webinar that discussed Fed OSHA’s heat illness rulemaking—its status, scope, and what it would require—as well as the other significant steps Federal and State OSHAs were taking to address heat illness. Participants in this webinar learned: The latest Fed OSHA and state rulemaking efforts, including emphasis programs Strategies for reviewing and updating heat illness prevention plans and training A summary of 2025 enforcement trends and predictions for 2026 A webinar from Conn Maciel Carey LLP. Use of this video does not in any manner constitute or establish an attorney-client relationship between Conn Maciel Carey and the viewer. This video may be deemed "attorney advertising" in jurisdictions from which it is accessed. The decision to hire a lawyer is a serious one and should be undertaken after consideration of all relevant information, not only information on this video.