By The Restoration HQ desk · · filed under Regulation & Standards
OSHA heat enforcement keeps its teeth this summer
OSHA's Heat National Emphasis Program lapsed (early April) and was replaced by an updated enforcement directive (CPL 03-00-024); the proposed federal heat standard is still in rulemaking. Inspectors are signaling fewer warnings and more citations this summer under the General Duty Clause.
FORA real heat plan protects your people and your business, so build it before July and make safety a recruiting and carrier-trust selling point.
AGAINSTEnforcement-by-directive with no finalized standard means moving goalposts, and small shops eat the compliance guesswork.
Consensus vs. contrarianContrarian: don't wait for the final rule, the citation risk is already here via the General Duty Clause, so the operators treating heat as optional are the ones who'll get made examples of.
Sources Contractor Magazine, www.contractormag.com/management/best-practi… OSHA heat rulemaking, www.osha.gov/heat-exposure/rulemaking
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