Extreme heat can have a dramatic effect on an employees' comfort and potentially on their health.
Please consider the following recommendations to protect the health of your employees who are required to work outdoors. Personal acclimatization to high temperatures is critical to an individual's ability to cope with high temperatures. Allow new employees several days to physically adjust to working in high temperature settings. Workers can lose up to two gallons of fluid a day, causing fatigue and other heat-related illnesses that result in reduced productivity and lost time. Most workers will drink less water than required because thirst is not an adequate indicator of how much essential fluid and electrolytes have been lost.