Take Action: Heat Safety at Work

Cities coast to coast are breaking all-time heat records this July, as the extreme heat continues.

But while workers continue to face dangerous and potentially deadly working conditions, anti-worker leaders in Congress are quietly attempting to stop any heat safety protection laws from being passed, now or in the future.

H.R. 6213, the misnamed Heat Workforce Standards Act, would prohibit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from creating or enforcing any national heat safety law. 

This cannot stand. Will you make a call? Tell Congress to protect workers from heat—and not block heat safety protections.

Working in extreme heat, both inside and outside, makes workers vulnerable to heat-related illness and even death. It’s difficult to track as heat-related deaths and illnesses are not always recorded as such. As a result, this is a serious problem that is undercounted.

Working in hot environments also impacts a worker’s ability to think clearly, concentrate and react quickly, all of which can lead to further risk and harm.

Please make a call in favor of heat safety standards and to protect workers from heat at work. Call 844-937-2517 now.

In 2024, OSHA proposed the nation’s first heat safety standard. The Trump administration has yet to implement these much-needed protections. But the truth is, leaving heat exposure at work unaddressed doesn’t help big corporations—it costs them $7.8 billion each year and additionally would prevent more than 500 worker fatalities a year. What’s good for workers is what’s good for businesses, and many heat safety measures are common sense, widely accepted and necessary to save lives. 

Workers are facing increasingly hot temperatures across the country, year after year. And all workers are at serious risk of harm from the heat. 

Thank you for standing with workers this summer and every day.