OSHA’s Proposed Heat Exposure Standard Open for Comment through December

OSHA’s proposed heat exposure standard is currently open for public comment at Regulations.gov, with about 7,300 comments received already. The text and background of the new standard is available in the Federal Register :: Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings. This new standard is anticipated to collectively cost $7.8 billion annually (the high value mostly stemming from how nearly all businesses could be impacted to some degree) and is expected to have $9.2 billion in annual monetized benefits (in reduced heat-related fatalities, $13.77 million per fatality, and non-fatal illnesses, $116,588 per injury).