Articles for Outdoor Workers

Ningbo cafes offer relief from heat for outdoor workers
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Ningbo cafes offer relief from heat for outdoor workers

China Daily  

To offer relief from the sweltering summer heat for outdoor workers, a community cooling initiative has been launched on Huayan Street, a quaint thoroughfare lined with more than 20 cafes and bakeries in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. This week marked the debut of Huayan Street's first public cooling spot, located at Gao's cafe, providing cool beverages and a place to rest …

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Here’s what seems to work in Miami to keep deaths down as temperatures soar
5 months, 1 week ago

Here’s what seems to work in Miami to keep deaths down as temperatures soar

Associated Press  

Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecedented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high. When Jane Gilbert took over three years ago as the county’s heat officer, one of the first in an increasingly warmer nation, …

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DeSantis bans local governments from protecting workers from heat and limits police oversight boards
8 months, 1 week ago

DeSantis bans local governments from protecting workers from heat and limits police oversight boards

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. And a bill DeSantis signed Friday strips local citizen police oversight boards from investigating officers. OUTDOOR WORKER SAFETY In a bill DeSantis signed Thursday, Florida, one of the hottest states in the country, local governments will be banned from requiring heat and water breaks …

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Newsom administration delays landmark workplace heat safety rules over cost concerns
9 months ago

Newsom administration delays landmark workplace heat safety rules over cost concerns

LA Times  

Landmark regulations intended to protect millions of California workers from worsening heat conditions in warehouses and other indoor facilities were left in limbo Thursday after the Newsom administration objected to the cost of the rules. “So if you think about someone’s body temperature heating up when they’re moving quickly, they’re much more susceptible to hot indoor environments.” Opinion Editorial: Extreme …

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Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record high temperatures persist across the US
1 year, 4 months ago

Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record high temperatures persist across the US

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — With heat waves spreading across the United States, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new steps to protect workers — including a hazard alert notifying employers and employees about ways to stay safe from extreme heat — as well as measures to improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible. Noting that ocean temperatures near Miami topped …

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How to make cannabis cultivation greener.
1 year, 8 months ago

How to make cannabis cultivation greener.

Slate  

Alistair Monroe is living above a recently shut-down indoor cannabis factory-farm in Oakland. Greg Minor, deputy director of Oakland’s Economic and Workforce Development Department, said in an email that after the diesel generators at the Cannery and Tinnery buildings were shut down, “City inspectors visited all known Oakland cultivation sites and successfully shut down roughly ten additional sites.” Generators are …

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The threat of extreme weather to health, productivity and livelihoods of outdoor
2 years, 6 months ago

The threat of extreme weather to health, productivity and livelihoods of outdoor

Live Mint  

GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI : Vimal Sahu had seen enough Delhi summers to tell that it was not just another hot May day. Too hot to work For outdoor workers in India’s hottest regions, rising extreme heat will make work increasingly difficult, several studies have warned, shaving off billion hours of labour and productivity. A McKinsey report of 2020 estimates that heat-exposed …

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In rising heat, the cry of the wilting outdoor worker
2 years, 7 months ago

In rising heat, the cry of the wilting outdoor worker

The Hindu  

More asphalt-melting heatwaves driven by runaway climate change are on the way. To get to grips with this predicament, India must initiate safety nets — a combination of targeted transfers and insurance schemes — to improve the resilience of outdoor workers. Disaster insurance schemes, far too few in India, should enable workers to transfer some of the losses from debilitating …

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Outdoor workers receive warm services in Ningbo
3 years ago

Outdoor workers receive warm services in Ningbo

China Daily  

A sanitation worker drinks free ginger tea at a tea booth set up by a local restaurant owner in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province. With the arrival of winter, the Ningbo government and residents have started to provide various warm services for outdoor workers in the city. The Ningbo government is currently building Outdoor Workers' Stops that offer food, drinks …

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Quzhou offers 'cool summer' for outdoor workers
3 years, 5 months ago

Quzhou offers 'cool summer' for outdoor workers

China Daily  

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2021-07-08 Two sanitation workers grab items from a personally-designed freezer for outdoor workers in Quzhou. As Quzhou in East China's Zhejiang province approaches the "dog days" of summer in mid-July, a series of "refrigerators of love" will be placed at six locations throughout the city, providing free cool water, bean soup, and herbal tea to outdoor workers to …

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