Amid a punishing global heat wave, the U.S. agency that sets workplace safety standards is likely many years away from issuing a federal rule that would protect workers from dangerously high ...

Ironworkers placing precast sections of a new garage at a hospital in Nyack, N.Y., on a July day with 90°F-plus temperatures and high humidity. Two summers ago, 35-year-old Timothy Barber started a ...

The Biden administration finally proposed federal heat protection standards last week, more than half a century after federal experts first outlined the need for such rules. The Nixon administration ...

OSHA will hold a public hearing on June 16 to gather input on its proposed federal standard aimed at protecting workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses. Heat is the leading cause of death ...