--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | CalEPA description: CalEPA | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Preventing Work-related Heat Illness](https://blog.stpub.com/preventing-work-related-heat-illness) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Jun 29, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/thermometer-background-sun-3d-rendering.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/preventing-work-related-heat-illness) Summer has arrived, bringing record-breaking heat to parts of North America. It's time to remember that outdoor work in the summer sun can lead to heat illness, as can indoor work in spaces that aren’t sufficiently insulated or cooled. In the United States, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and most state OSH programs provide guidance to employers and their workers. California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) administers detailed regulatory requirements for outdoor first promulgated in 2005, and Washington has enforced state-level rules since 2007. Canadian occupational health and safety agencies also recognize “thermal stress” as a workplace hazard, with attention to both heat and cold. California has been working on standards for indoor workplaces since 2017. If you have outdoor workers in California you must comply with the following requirements, while if you're anywhere else you should at least consider them.  [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/preventing-work-related-heat-illness) 1 Comment [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/preventing-work-related-heat-illness#comments-listing) Tags: [EPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa), [CalEPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/calepa), [Canada](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/canada), [Heat Wave](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/heat-wave), [Heat](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/heat) ## [Cleaning up after wildfires](https://blog.stpub.com/cleaning-up-after-wildfires) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Sep 29, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/Wildfire.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/cleaning-up-after-wildfires) Western North America is suffering from huge wildfires this year. I’ve written pieces discussing ways to protect workplaces from fire ([HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/protecting-your-workplace-from-wildfires)) and to protect workers during wildfires ([HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/protecting-workers-when-wildfires-create-bad-air)). Today’s note discusses worker safety during cleanup after wildfires. I synthesize guidance from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California EPA (CalEPA), and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). 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