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California adopts heat safety rule.(REGULATIONS)
Hoping to avoid last year's wave of heat-related deaths, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health has approved the nation's first permanent heat stress safety regulations, following an emergency provision put in place last September.
After more than a dozen workers died in 2005 from heat-related stress, DOSH enacted emergency measures.
Though most of the deaths involved the agriculture or construction industries, "there are many industries where workers are outside [and] this would apply. Lifeguarding is a good example of that," says Dean Fryer, spokesperson for Cal/OSHA.
The addition to the California Labor Code applies to all outdoor work areas, such as waterparks and leisure pools. It includes three main stipulations:
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