OSHA is in the process of developing a federal standard to protect workers from exposure to dangerous heat conditions, which it currently doesn’t have. That — combined with summer weather and heat waves sweeping many parts of the country — is boosting attention to heat-related health problems among construction workers.
“Construction workers as a whole are at risk of heat-related illness,” said Gavin West, director of nanomaterials research at The Center for Construction Research and Training. “People are becoming more aware of it.”