COC CLS - Healthy Safety Environment - NIKE, Inc. - The Journey

HEAT STRESS MANAGEMENT
b. Identifying workplace and work assignments where a potential for heat stress exists.
c. Provide comfortable and safe working temperature conditions. Work temperature ranges:
• Sedentary work: 16º C (60º F) - 30º C (86º F).
• Work involving physical effort: 13º C (55º F) - 27º C (81º F).
• If work temperature ranges cannot be maintained, heat/cold stress procedures must be
implemented including the following engineering, administrative controls and/or
personal protective equipment to minimize the effects of heat stress:
- Provision of accessible potable drinking water sufficient to provide each worker up to
one quart per hour. When temperatures exceed 30º C (86º F) ice should be provided
to cool the water.
- Employees must have access to shade during entire shift and as a general rule there
must be enough shade to accommodate, at the same time, 25 percent of the
employees on a shift.
- If the interior of a vehicle is used to provide shade, it must have an air conditioner that
works.
- Metal storage sheds and other out-building do not provide “shade” unless they
provide a cooling environment comparable to shade in open air. For example, they
must be mechanically ventilated or open to air movement.
- Shade must be accessible within a time frame not to exceed 200 meters or 5 minutes
by walking.
- Provisions for Preventative Recovery Periods (PRP). A PRP is necessary if an employee
believes that a rest break is needed to cover from the heat or if an employee exhibits
indications of heat illness.
2. TRAINING—
All employees: Non-supervisory and supervisory must be trained on:
• The environmental and personal risk factors associated with heat illness.
• The employer’s procedures for complying with heat illness standards.
• The importance of drinking water.
• The importance of acclimatization, how it is developed, and how employer’s procedures
address it.
Non-supervisory employees should also be trained to:
• Inform the supervisor if he/she is not used to the heat and may need more frequent
breaks until his/her body adjusts, which usually takes 4-14 days.
• Drink water in small amounts, 3 to 4, 8 ounce cups per hour.
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