Heat Stress in Transportation and Warehouse Environments

This Interactive course on Heat Stress in Transportation and Warehouse Environments discusses how the body’s cooling system operates and responds to heat, types of heat-related illnesses and how to treat them, and how to prepare to work in hot transportation and warehouse environments safely. It also provides guidance on how to engineer controls for hot environments. Our bodies are strong, flexible and capable of performing a variety of demanding tasks… but heat stress can interfere with its natural processes. When this happens, the results can be serious, even fatal. But they don’t have to be. Areas covered in the course include how heat affects the body’s “cooling system”, types of heat-related illnesses and their symptoms, treating heat-related illnesses, how to prepare for working in hot environments, how to engineer controls for hot environments and more.

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Topics covered in these products include:

  • Describe the health hazards that are associated with working in high-heat conditions.
  • Recognize the symptoms of heat-related illnesses.
  • Assist a person who is suffering from a heat-related illness.
  • Know the equipment and safe practices you should use to work safely in high-heat environments.
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Associated Industries: Transportation and Warehouse Environments.
Associated Topic Titles: DOT / Transportation, Heat Stress, Warehouse Safety.


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