Heat-related Illness

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Recommended Heat-related Resources

Heat-Related Illness Clinician’s Guide - June 2021

English | Spanish

This guide provides information to clinicians on the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness. Since workers may not be familiar with all of the symptoms of heat stress, it is important that clinicians discuss heat illness symptoms and prevention with agricultural workers and others who are at risk.

MCN Written Testimony for Heat Stress Regional Information Hearings Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH)

Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) is drafting a much-needed standard requiring employers to protect Maryland workers from heat-related illnesses, starting next year. During an agency hearing, Leslie Rodriguez, JD, Bilingual Program Manager for Environmental and Occupational Health, provided Migrant Clinicians Network’s comments on the new standard.

California Heat Illness Prevention

This page overviews the CA Heat Illness standard and resources in multiple languages.

OSHA Heat Safety Tool App

Calculates the heat index for their worksite, and, based on the heat index, displays a risk level to outdoor workers.

Water, Rest, Shade - Video

This 9-minute video features workers from agriculture, construction and landscaping and heat illness prevention and treatment.

Workplace Safety and Health for Farmworkers: Pesticides, Field Sanitation, and Heat Illness

This training curriculum from Farmworker Justice reviews basic concepts related to pesticide exposure, field sanitation, heat illness, and worker rights.

PNASH Heat Toolkit

A set of resources and tools developed in collaboration with agricultural workers and educators. The toolkit provides a train-the-trainer guide for the identification, prevention, and treatment of heat illness and is available in both English and Spanish.

Heat Stress Prevention Brochure

This 9-minute video features workers from agriculture, construction and landscaping and heat illness prevention and
treatment

A bilingual (English/Spanish) brochure created by AFOP detailing best practices for heat stress prevention for farmworkers.

Heat Stress in the Fields and COVID-19

This 9-minute video features workers from agriculture, construction and landscaping and heat illness prevention and
treatment

YouTube video with Public Citizen's Dr. Juley Fulcher and AFOP Program Manager Vashti Kelly speaking about Heat Stress in the Fields and the interplay between heat-related illness and COVID-19.