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Podcast: Radio Free Tenacity
Episode: 013 - Understanding OSHA’s National Emphasis Program For Heat Stress
Description: In September of 2021, the US Department of Labor announced enhanced, expanded measures to protect workers from hazards of extreme heat, indoors and out. Those measures included the launch of a rulemaking process to develop a workplace heat standard and deployment of a National Emphasis Program (NEP). The NEP is the agency's first-ever nationwide enforcement measure specifically targeting heat-related hazards and greenlights heat-related inspections on worksites. In this episode you'll get to know: What an NEP is and its purposeWhat industries are affected by the NEPWhat compliance officers are looking for on heat-related inspections How cooling PPE fit...