Osha Training - Heat Stress Prevention
Summer is upon us and although this may seem like old hat to most of the outdoor workers in the continental United States, we here at
Online OSHA Safety Training feel that it is necessary to give all you hard-working, in the heat of the summer workers, a great resource so that you can constantly remind yourself of the inherent dangers brought about my summers heat.
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Please recall that physical activity at high temperatures can directly affect your health and indirectly be the cause of accidents and in severe cases of heat exhaustion, death. Just look at the current 2010 heat wave and the damage it has already done to so many individuals in the Northeastern quadrant of the United States. Heat and the heat stress that comes from an over-heated body is something that should be seen as a very life-threatening encounter and one that must be addressed immediately.
What Is Heat Stress?
Heat stress is something that must be taking into account and addressed immediately, as mentioned above, as a sign that your body is woefully overheated. Your body is having great difficulty with maintaining its narrow temperature range. The heart pumps extremely fast, blood is diverted from internal organs to the skin, breathing rate increases, sweating increases, all in an attempt to transfer more heat to the outside air and cool the overheated-skin by evaporation of accumulated sweat. It is when the body cannot maintain the correct cooling balances that the chain of heat exhaustion is placed into effect.
Heat Cramps
Heat Exhaustion
Heat Stroke
Heat Stroke Almost Story in BP Gulf Oil Spill Work
Take this scenario into your mindIt is a beautiful day in the Gulf Coast region and your day is just beginning with tons of oil-tar-globs littering the beaches of Venice and 10,000 Islands on the West Coast of Florida. You are part of the ever-increasing BP oil spill clean-up brigade and you are not thinking about the 100 degree heat, not yet, as it is just 85 at 6 am.
Working Hard Working Hot
You join up with you comrades at the dock and prepare to be debriefed on the work load today that will rid the beaches of this sticky-mess of oil that BP has left but is helping to eradicate as well, and is paying you a nice wage to do just that. It is now 9 am and the thermometer has crept up to a toasty Florida summers degree of 95 in the shade. You are still woefully unaware of this sneaky disaster in the making and have downed your third cup of steaming hot coffee and your body temperature in now at a not-so noticeable 99 degrees. This is mistake number two with the first being that you did not bring enough water to consume at the very least a glass-full each half-hour or so but you recalled that BP provides a cooler full of water. The second mistake of the morning was downing that amount of hot coffee as you need the caffeine and that has blinded you to the dangers of pre-heating up your body, but you are now fully awake and think if I get too hot I will just take a dunk in the water. Well, depending upon the toxic condition of the area in which you will be working that is a very bad idea.
Working Non-Stop
It is a fast-paced morning and at high-noon the temperature is 105 in the shade but there is no shade out here in the Gulf so you are an egg on a frying pan. Just by standing there you are raising your core body temperature at the very least another one degree maybe two and now are starting to feel the effects of heat stress on your body. You have been working non-stop since 9:30 am and now your body temp is at its maximum and you are still unaware of the dangers of heat stroke.
No Longer Sweating
A oil spill clean-up buddy notices that you are no longer sweating and being an ex-oil spill worker in Alaska during the summer and suffering from heat exhaustion himself he wades over to you and hands you his bottle of water and directs you to the pier under the shade. He may have just saved your life and it can happen just like that in less than 15 minutes.
Please take a good hard look at these steps that you must take while working in a heated-up outdoors/indoors situation.
Drinking Water Frequently and Moderately (every 15-30 minutesabout a glassful)
Resting Frequently
Eating Lightly
Stay safe and thank you for all your hardwork and dangerous work there in the BP Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Effort.
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