Heat Stress Prevention
This course provides learners with a basic understanding of what heat stress is as well as how and where it occurs. By understanding heat stress, learners will know how to protect themselves against it and be able to take proper action if heat stress does occur.
- What heat stress is
- The environmental, individual, and occupational factors that contribute to heat stress
- Common sources of heat stress we are all exposed to in the workplace
- The different types of heat stress illnesses
- The levels of heat stress and their associated symptoms
- Long-term health effects of heat stress
- How to prevent heat stress through safe work practices
- How to respond to a heat stress emergency
