As the Occupational Safety and Health Administration considers new rules that would protect American workers from the heat, a new study found they could help prevent some 28,000 injuries a year.

The steel-plate floors “absorb heat and radiate it to no end,” says Keenan Bell, explaining why temperatures in parts of the ...

Imagine if tomorrow you woke up and heard a news report stating that a few states had passed laws which ban local governments from requiring workzone barriers like cones or concrete blocks? Or what if ...

As workplace deaths from heat increase, OSHA is debating the future of the first federal rules to protect workers from extreme heat. By Claire Brown Last August, nine workers across the United States, ...

SAN ANTONIO – With San Antonio coming off its warmest spring on record this year, it is important to be prepared for the heat at any time. Consumer Reports, a nonprofit, independent organization that ...

Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related work fatalities in the United States, with construction workers accounting for more than a third of all heat-related deaths. As average daily ...

Last week's record-breaking heat wave is highlighting concerns about the potential health risks facing workers. At Northside Hospital Forsyth in Cumming, Georgia, Dr. Douglas Olson, the medical ...

Garment worker union organisation Clean Clothes Campaign is calling on fashion brands, suppliers and governments to act now ...

A pair of just-confirmed workplace safety agency leaders will have to balance completing rulemaking on key issues like heat ...

As the global AI boom accelerates, data centers are multiplying — and so are the overlooked risks to the people who keep them ...

These are the cruelest days of harvest, when the sun turns fields into slow ovens and the heat climbs before breakfast, holding on until the stars are out. By nightfall, the damage is done: another ...